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subumbellate, in twos or threes ; peduncles axillary or fascicled at 

 old nodes ; bracts and bractlets small (Russian Asia 1 ). 



96. Caragana Lamk. 2 — Receptacle somewhat concave, glandular 

 within, narrowed and rather gibbous posteriorly. Calyx gamose- 

 palous to a considerable height, tubular ; 2 posterior teeth smaller 

 or deeply separated. Standard ovate or suborbicular, erect patent, 

 narrowed into a long claw; 3 lateral margins folded back; wings 

 oblique unguiculate free; keel nearly straight, obtuse. Stamens 10, 

 2-adelphous, 9 connate into a long tube cleft above; vexillary 

 stamen free ; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile co-ovulate ; style 

 straight or curved, beardless ; stigma terminal minute obtuse. 

 Legume sessile linear, finally terete or turgid, usually acute, bare or 

 villous within. Seeds oc, transverse exarillate. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves paripinnate, often fascicled ; petiole sometimes hardened 

 spinescent or terminated by a slender bristle ; stipules either minute 

 herbaceous, or subulate or spinescent ; flowers 4 solitary or sub- 

 umbellate, few ; peduncles long, axillary at base of young shoots or 

 fascicled at old nodes {Himalayas, Russian Asia 6 ). 



97. Psoralea L. 6 — Eeceptacle cupuliform, lined by a glandular 

 disk ; centre raised into a short column supporting ovary at apex. 

 Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 5, nearly equal or lowest larger than 

 others ; higher lobes often connate to a variable height ; aestivation 

 slightly imbricated. Petals nearly equal in length or keel shorter 

 than others ; standard orbicular ovate or obovate, contracted at 

 base or 2-auriculate above claw ; wings oblong falcate, 1-auriculate 

 above claw; keel curved obtuse, with shortly unguiculate petals 

 slightly cohering at middle. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) or 



1 Species 1. H. argentevm DC, loc. cit. — 

 Eobiiiia llalodendron L. F., Suppl., 330. — 

 Pall., Fl. Ross., t. 36; Voy. (ed. gall.), App., 

 n. 360, t. 83, fig. 1.— Bot. Mag., t. 1016.— 

 Caragana argentea Lamk., III., t. 607, fig. 3. 



2 Diet., i. 615 ; III., t. 607, fig. 1, 2.— DC, 

 Brodr., ii. 269.— Ejjdl., Gen., n. 6557.— B. H., 

 Gen., 505, n. 130. 



3 Margins much involute in bud. 



4 Yellow or more rarely reddish-white. 



5 Species about 15. Pall., Fl. Ross., t. 42- 

 45; Astragal., t. 85, 86. — Ledeb., Icon. Fl. 

 Ross., t. 464. — Rotle, ///. Himal., t. 34.— 

 •Iacqueji., Voy., t. 43. — Sweet, Brit. Fl. 



Gard., t. 227.— Bot. Reg., 1. 1021.— Bot. Mag., 

 t. 18S6 — Walp., Rep., i. 681; ii. 858; Ann., 

 iv. 49 I, 



6 Gen., n. 894.— J., Gen., 355.— O ektn., 

 Frvct., ii. 308, t. 145. — Lamk., Diet., v. Gso ; 

 III,, t. 614.— DC, Prodr., ii. 216. — Endi., 

 Gen., n. 6526.— 15. H., Gen., 491, n. 83.— Do- 

 rychnium McBNCH, Meth., 253 (nee T.)— Bute- 

 ria MtENCn, loc. cit. (ex Unul.). — Poikadenia 

 Ell., Carol,, ii. 198.— Bhynchodium I'ki.si., 

 Bot. Bern,, 54. — Meladenia TtJECZ., in Bull. 

 Mose. (IS IS), i. 570. Bvpontinia Au.i'., in 

 Jahrcsb. d. Pollichia (1866). 



