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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



a somewhat rounded linear rjod, surmounted by a point formed by 

 the persistent base of the style, and dehiscing into two thin 

 obliquely-striate valves ; it contains in its single cavity an indefinite 



Rohinia Pseudacaeia (Garden Acacia). 



Fig. 159. 

 Floriferous branch (\). 



number of transverse oblong seeds with fleshy exalbuminous embryos. 

 Galega consists of perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so. Their 

 alternate imparipinnate leaves have entire leaflets and unsymmetrical 

 lateral stipules, often greatly developed. The flowers form terminal 

 and axillary racemes, each flower axillary to an often persistent bract. 

 The three species of this genus belong to the South of Europe and 

 to Eastern Asia. 1 



The Galegece proper (or Tepkrosiea) have the following points in 

 common with the preceding genus. The flowers form racemes, 

 terminal, leaf-opposed, or collected into terminal panicles. More 

 rarely the inflorescences occupy the axils of the upper leaves, or 

 else the floral pedicels are all, or only the lower ones, paired or 



1 Sibth., Fl. Grose, t. 726.— Sweet, Brit. 

 Fl. Gard., t. 159, 244.— Gren. & Godk., FL de 



Fr., i. 455.— Bot. Reg., t. 326.— Bot. Mag., t. 

 2192. 



