278 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



cemes ; bracts caducous ; bractlets {Southern Europe, temperate and 

 subtropical Asia, northern Africa, western North, and tropical South 

 America, Australia 1 ). 



94. Calophaca Fisch. 2 — Calyx tubular, usually glandular; lobes 

 nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a greater height, imbricated in 

 aestivation. Petals unequally unguiculate ; standard ovate or subor- 

 bicular, erect patent ; lateral margins folded back, often bearing ap- 

 pendages within a little above base ; wings oval-oblong sub falcate free, 

 rather long-unguiculate ; keel curved, about equal to wings, obtuse or 

 emarginate at apex. Stamens 10, 9 connate; vexillary stamen free; 

 anthers uniform, often fixed by middle of back. Germen sessile co- 

 ovulate ; style slender beardless arched ; stigma minute terminal. 

 Legume linear, finally terete or turgid, often acute, villous, stuffed, 

 or bare within, 2-valved. Seeds subreniform exarillate. — Herbs or 

 shrubs, often glandular pubescent ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 entire exstipellate ; stipules membranous or herbaceous, more or less 

 adnate to petiole ; flowers 3 few, rather large, shortly racemose or sub- 

 umbellate ; bract 1-flowered; bractlets, 2, lateral, usually inserted 

 below calyx ; inflorescences axillary ; peduncles long {Russian and 

 icestern Asia*) . 



95. Halimodendron FiscnV— Calyx posteriorly gibbous; teeth 

 5, short ; 2 superior subconnate. Corolla of Calophaca ; keel curved. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform. Germen stipitate 

 oo-ovulate ; style inflexed beardless ; apex minute stigmatiferous. 

 Legume obovate or oblong, thick coriaceous, turgid, dehiscing rather 

 late; placentary suture slightly impressed. Seeds subreniform, 

 shining exarillate.— A shrub ; leaves paripinnate ; some of leaflets 

 at apex of petiole often spinescent ; stipules subulate ; flowers 6 



1 "Species about 12." P^ll., Voy„ t. 80, 3 Yellow or violet, rather large. 



81.— Jacq., Hurt. Vindoh., t. 95.— Jacq. f., 4 Species 6 or 7. Pali.., Fl. Boss., t. 47 (Cy- 



Eelog., t. 56.— Waldst. & Kit., PI. Par. thus).— I cuaji., Arbr., ed. 2, t. 48 {Cylisus.)— 



Huvgar., t. 21.— Desf. Fl. Atlant., t. 199.— Jafb. et Sfach., HI. Plant. Or., i. 93, t. 47, 



Sibth., Fl. Grate, t. 708, 709.— Benth., Fl. 48(Chesneya).—Voiss.,Di<ign. Plant. Or., vi.34. 



Austral., u. 225.— Pot. Mag., t. 2150, 2154.— — \V \ , e., Sep., ii. 859; Ann., i. 232 (Chesneya). 



Walp., B>p., i. 672 ;ii. ^7; Ann., i. 231. 5 Ex DC ., Mem. Legum., 2S3 ; Prodr., ii. 



Ex DC, Prodr., ii. 270.— Endl., Gen., n. 269.— Endl., Gen., n. 6*559.— P. H., Gen., 505, 



6560.— B. H., Gen., 505, n. 131.— Chesneya n. 129.— Jlahdendron PC, in Mem. Soc. Gen. 



Lindl., in Chesn. It. ad Euphr., ex Endl., (Mart. 182 1). 



Gen., n. 6558. - r, Uatl)L . r ^^ violet _ 



