LEGUMINOSsE-PAriLIONACEJE. 



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9.2. Gueldenstaedtia Fisch.' — Calyx unequally 5-toothed; 2 

 superior teeth broader. Standard suborbicular or obovate, erect 

 patent; wings obovate oblong; keel short obtuse. Stamens 10, 9- 

 connate; axillary stamen free; anthers uniform. Germen sessile 

 oo. ovulate ; style short inflexed beardless ; stigma broad lateral. 

 Legume linear or ovoid, terete turgid ; placentary suture depressed 

 intruded ; 2-valved. Seeds reniform, smooth or scrobiculate. — 

 Perennial herbs, almost stemless or decumbent ; leaves imparipinnate 

 or 1 -foliolate ; stipules free or adnate to petiole ; flowers 2 solitary or 

 oftener on axillary, shortly racemose, subumbellate scapes {Russian 

 Asia, Him a! at/ as 3 ) . 



93. Glycyrrhiza T. 4 — Eeceptacle shortly obconical, glandular 

 within ; calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 5, nearly equal or 2 superior 

 shorter and connate to a variable height. Petals all free ; standard 

 ovate or oblong, usually narrow, contracted at base, erect ; wings 

 obliquely oblong, acute or obtuse ; keel shorter than wings. Stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous ; 9 connate into an often short sheath cleft above; 

 1 free or adnate on one side to sheath ; 5 alternate anthers smaller ; 

 cells opening rather deeply on dehiscence. Germen sessile 1- oo- 

 ovulate ; style filiform or rather thick, curved at apex ; apex capitate 

 stigmatiferous. Legume of variable form, sometimes short linear, 

 sometimes ovate or oblong ; straight or more or less arched, turgid or 

 compressed, smooth or oftener glandular or muricated, continuous 

 within, indehiscent or rather late becoming 2-valved. Seeds ovate 

 globose, or reniform, exarillate. — Perennial herbs, glabrous or oftener 

 glandular ; root often sweet ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets cc 

 or more rarely few (3, 5 5 ), entire or' with small glandular teeth; 

 stipels or minute setaceous ; stipules narrowed at apex, membranous 

 caducous ; flowers 6 in axillary sessile or pedunculate spikes or ra- 



Ghrac, t. 737. — Bakek, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., 

 ii. 138.— Walp., Ann., ii. 397. 



1 Fisch., ex DC, Prodr., ii. 307. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6570.— B. H. Gen., 506, n. 132. 



2 " Violet (or lemon-coloured ?)" 



3 Species about 7. Fisch., in Mem. Soc. 

 Hist. Nat. Mosc., vi. 179, t. 19.— Paixas, As- 

 (rag., t. 06 [Astragalus). — DC, Astra;/., t. lit 

 (Astragalus). — Dklkss., Icon. Set., iii. II. t. 

 73.— Walp., Rep., i. 684. 



4 Inst., 389, t. 210.— L., Gen., n. 882.— 



Clktx., Frv.ct., ii. 319, t. 148.— Lamk., Diet., 

 vi. 88; Suj.pl., iv. 656; III., t. 625. — DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 247.— Endl., Gen., n. 6532.— B. 11., 

 Ge:., 508, n. 136. — Liquiritia Mcench, Met//., 

 152. — Pees., Syn., ii. 313. — Clid anther a \\. Be., 

 in A pp. S(urf. Erp.,10. — Meristotrophis Fisch. 

 & Met., Ind. Sent. Hurt. Petrop., i\. : 5. - o/V 

 cyrrhizopsis Boiss., Diayn. PI. Or., sit. 2, v. n2. 



5 In section Meristotrophis, wherein the ger- 

 men is 2 ovulate and the fruit L-seeded. 



fl White, yellowish, or oftener blue orviolel 



