LEG UMINOSM-PAPILIONACEJE. 



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III. GALEGA SERIES. 



Galec/a 1 (fig. 15S) lias irregular resupinate hermapnrodite flowers. 

 The slightly dilated receptacle bears in due order a gamosepalous 

 calyx, a papilionaceous corolla, a monadelphous diplostemonous an- 

 droceum of subhypogynous insertion, and a unicarpellary gyna?ceum. 

 The calyx divides above into five 



in i.i it i j_ Galena officinalis. 



shallow teeth or lobes, valvate " M 



or subimbricate in the bud. 

 The standard is obovate or ob- 

 long with the midrib projecting 

 along its back, and tapers into 

 a short claw at the base ; the 

 shortly unguiculate wings are 

 oblong, with the limb unsym- 

 metrical, especially near the 

 base, and are often slightly adhe- 

 rent to the somewhat incurved 

 obtuse keel. The staminal fila- 

 ments form a complete tube 

 below. In the five stamens 

 superposed to the calyx-lobes 

 the free part of the filament is 

 longer ; but their anthers resem- 

 ble those of the oppositipetalous 

 stamens, though usually a little 

 larger. 2 The o'vnieceum con- 

 sists of a sessile or subsessile 

 ovary, containing an indefinite 

 number of descending campy- 

 lotropous ovules, and tapering above into an incurved glabrous 

 subulate style, ending in a little stigmatiferous head. The fruit is 



Fig. 158. 

 Habit (I). 



1 T., Inst., 398, t. 122.— Mill., Icor.., t. 2 The pollen resembles that of Vide* in all 



137. — Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 322. — J., Gen,., Galegece hitherto examined (II. Mohl, in At, . 



359.— Lame., Diet., ii. 595; III,, t. 025.— IV., 8c. Nat., ser. 2, iii. 341). This form seems to 



Prodr., ii. 248. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 249. — be that of Papilionaceee, so thai in treating of 



Endl., Gen., n.6533. — B. H., Gen., 496, n. 97. — the other series we shall abstain from referring 



Callotropis Don (G.), Gen, Syst., ii.228. — Endl., to this point. 

 Gen., n. 6535 (nee It. Hie). — Accorombona 

 Endl., Gen,., 1427. 



