286 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stipules 2, lateral minute, subulate or dot-like ; flowers 1 spuriously 

 capitate or umbellate (inflorescences axillary pedunculate), or solitary 

 or few terminal ; bract 1 below inflorescence, leaf-like 1-3-foliolate ; 

 bractlets {Europe, western Asia, northern Africa"). 



109. Hosackia Dougl. 3 — Eeceptacle obconical thin. Calyx gamo- 

 sepalous to a considerable height ; teeth 5, nearly equal. Petals 

 lonQf-unsruiculate ; claws free from staminal tube : standard obovate, 

 suborbicular, or ovate ; claw thin straight, remote from others ; 

 wincfs oblong-obovate, auriculate above at base : keel curved, a little 

 shorter than wings, rather obtuse at apex. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 

 phous (9-1) ; all or alternate filaments slightly dilated below uniform 

 anthers. Germen sessile 2- oo-ovulate, tapering at apex into a style ; 

 style slender, curved or inflexed, more or less dilated below apex ; 

 stigma small capitate terminal. Legume linear compressed {Evho- 

 sackia), or subterete and straight or arched {Drepanolodm), septate 

 within between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds exarillate. — Herbs or under- 

 shrubs ; leaves 3-foliolate or oftener pinnate 2- cx-foliolate ; stipules 

 membranous or gland-like ; flowers 4 in axillary spurious umbels or 

 umbellules, more rarely solitary ; bract minute, or 1-co -foliolate at 

 base ; bractlets caducous {North and Central America*). 



110. Anthyllis L. 6 — Receptacles slightly concave, glandular 

 within. Calyx gamosepalous to a considerable height, tubular or 

 inflated ; 7 teeth or lobes nearly equal or 2 superior longer and more 

 or less connate. Petals on long claws often adnate at base to 

 staminal tube ; standard ovate or elliptical, abrupt or 2-auriculate at 

 base ; wings obtuse ; keel of variable form, shorter than wings, 

 curved, gibbous on both sides. Stamens 10 ; either all connate into 



1 Whitish, pink, yellowish, or variegated. 2913. — Bot. Reg., t. 1257, 1977. — A. Geay, in 



2 Species 5 or 6. Sibth., Fl. Grcec, t. 759, Proceed. Ac. Philad. (1863), 340 (part.). — 

 760 (Lotus).— Webb, Bliyt. Canar., t. 57-59.— Toeb., in H'hippl. Exp., Bot., t. 4. 



Jatjb. & Spach, III. Plant. Orient., t. 473. — 6 Gen., n. 864. — J., Gen., 355. — G^etx., 



Bot. Mag., t. 336.— Walp., Rep., i. 647; ^«n., Fruct., 307, t. 145.— DC, Prodr., ii. 168.— 



ii. 335; iv. 476. SPACH, Suit, a Buffon, i. 211. — ESDI., Gen., n. 



3 Ex Bentb\, in Bot. Reg., t. 1257.— Endl., 6506.— B. H., Gen., 488, n. IS.—Vulneroria 

 Gen., n. 6517.— B. H., Gen., 491, n. 82.— Syr- McEBFOH, MetA., 146. — Physanthyll is Boiss., 

 matium Vog., in Zinncea, s. 590. Toy., 162. — Cornicina Boiss., loc. cit. — Doryc- 



* Yellow or reddish, middle-sized. nopsis Boiss., op. cit., 163. 



5 Species ahout 25. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et ' Persistent calyx little or scarcely inflated in 



Spec, vi. t. 578, 579 (Tephrosia). — Bekth., in 3 sections : Aspalathoides (DC), Cornicina 



Trans. Linn. Soc, xvii. 364 (part.). — Toee. & (DC), and Borycnopsis ; much inflated in 2 



Ge., Fl. N. Amer., i. 323. — Bot. Mag., t. sections, Vulneraria and Physanthyllis. 



