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of leaf, lateral stipuliform ; stipules minute or ; flowers on axillary 

 peduncles, solitary or oftener spuriously umbellate ; bract 1 below 

 flower, usually 3-foliolate ; other bracts small or ; bractlets 

 {All temperate and mountainous regions). 



107. Cytisopsis Jaub. & Space. 1 — Calyx long tubular, sub-2- 

 labiate; 2 superior lobes longer, more obtuse, and connate to a 

 greater height. Petals on very long linear claws, more or less 

 adnate to staminal tube ; standard ovate ; wings and keel-petals 

 nearly similar, slightly incurved, obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 

 (9-1 ) ; filaments finally free slender, dilated below apex ; anthers 

 small uniform. Germen shortly stipitate, subexcentric ; ovules go ; 

 style slender, very long, curved and dilated above ; summit minutely 

 dilated, stigmatiferous. Legume linear straight subterete, longer 

 than persistent calyx, thinly septate within between seeds, 2-valved; 

 valves coriaceous, rather thick. Seeds subglobose ; funicle short 

 exarillate. — A low diffuse shrub, silky pubescent ; leaves sessile 

 digitate 5-7-foliolate exstipulate ; flowers 2 1-2 in each axil ; pedicel 

 furnished at middle with 2 ovate rigid concave opposite bractlets 

 {Syria*). 



108. Dorycnium TV — Flowers of Lotus ; calyx-lobes longer than 

 tube, nearly equal or lower lobes longer. Petals variable ; standard 

 oval-oblong or subspathulate, contracted into a short claw or 

 subsessile ; wings oblong ; keel shorter than wings, rather obtuse. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1 ; alternipetalous or all filaments 

 rather dilated at apex ; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile, 2- gc, 

 ovulate ; style curved ; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume 

 oblong, shortly linear {Bonjeaniaf) or terete or turgid, 1-cc -seeded 

 subseptate or pulpy within between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds ex- 

 arillate, globose or compressed ; embryo curved (green) ; radicle 

 inflexed accumbent ; albumen or thin membranous. — Herbs or 

 undershrubs, glabrous or villous ; leaves alternate digitate, usually 

 5-foliolate ; 2 inferior leaflets more or less remote from remainder; 



1 III. Plant. Orient, i. 154, t. 84.— B. H., 416.— Seb., iu DC, Prod,:, ii. 208.— Endl., 

 Gen., 489, n. 79. Gen., n. 6512.— B. H., Gen., 490, n. 80. 



8 Yellow 6 Reiciib -» Fl - Germ. Excnrs., 507; PL Crit., 



t. 1000 (part.)— Koch, St/nops., 177.— Knm . 

 Walp., Rep., v. 511. Qen., n. 6513. (Other characters of Dorycnium. 



4 Inst., 391, t. 211. — Vill., Dauph., iii. Germen pluriovulate.) 





