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a closed tube, or 9 connate; vexillary stamen often shorter and 

 thinner, partly, and ultimately after anthesis entirely, free ; all or 5 

 filaments dilated at apex; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile or 

 oftener stipitate, 2- co-ovulate ; style glabrous ; stigma terminal. 

 Legume ovoid or shortly linear, straight, arched, or falcate, included 

 by or scarcely projecting beyond persistent more or less inflated 

 calyx, turgid, indehiscent or late becoming 2-valved, 1- co-seeded, 

 continuous or transversely septate within. 1 Seeds exarillate. — 

 Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs ; leaves pinnate or 1-foliolate ; 

 stipules minute or ; flowers 2 unevenly capitate or shortly race- 

 mose, more rarely solitary; peduncles axillary or 2, 3 crowded 

 pseudo-terminal at extremities of twigs ; bracts and bractlets 

 setaceous small or {Europe, northern Africa, western Asia*). 



111. Securigera DC. 4 — Eeceptacle very short, glandular within. 

 Calyx short ; lobes nearly equal ; 2 superior often shorter, lateral 

 thicker connate to a greater height. Petals free from androceum ; 

 standard suborbicular, usually subsessile ; wings obliquely oblong ; 

 keel curved, shortly beaked. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); fila- 

 ments more or less dilated above; anthers uniform or oppositi- 

 petalous a little shorter. Germen sessile co-ovulate ; style curved 

 glabrous; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear falcate 

 piano-compressed acuminate, indehiscent or late becoming 2-valved ; 

 endocarp finally separable ; margins broadly thickened, furrowed at 

 suture. Seeds flattened square. — Diffuse herbs, glabrous; leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets quite entire, exstipellate ; stipules 

 membranous small ; flowers 5 umbellate at extremities of long axil- 

 lary peduncles, nutant ; bracts small reflexed ; bractlets (Southern 

 Europe, northern Africa, western Asia c '). 



1 The character of the legume varies in the Grcec., t. 682, 683. — Vis., Fl. Daltnat., t. 42. — 

 5 sections as follows : 1. Dorycnopsis. Legume Boiss., Toy., t. 48-50, 162, 163. — Desf., Fl. 

 straight ovoid 1-2-seeded indehiscent. — 2. Phys- Atlant., 1. 195. — Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., 

 anthylUs. Straight membranous, 1-seeded or ii. 60.— Bot. Mag., 1. 1927, 2576, 328 1.— Walp., 

 constricted between the 2 seeds. — 3. Vulneraria. Rep., i. 634 ; ii. 846 ; Ann., i. 224 ; iv. 473. 

 Straight or slightly falcate, continuous within, 4 Fl. de Fr., iv. 609; Prodr., ii. 313. — 15. II., 

 1-3-seeded. — 4. Aspalathoides. Straight or sub- Gen., 489, n. 78. — Securidaca T., Inst., 399, t. 

 falcate, hard, scarcely dehiscent, 1-seeded or 221. — G^RTN., Fruct., Y\. 3'37, t. 153. — Lamk., 

 subseptate between the 2 seeds. — 5. Cornicina. III., t. 629 (nee Diet., vii. 51, nee L.). — Bona- 

 Much curved or arched, more rarely moniliform, veria Scop., Infrod., 1420. — Neck., Elan., n. 

 hard. 1320.— Endl., Gen., n. 6589. 



2 Whitish, yellow, or reddish-purple. 6 White or yellow. 



3 Species about 20. Jacq., Fl. Austr., t. 6 Species 2. Desvx., Joum. Bot., i. 60, t. 4, 

 334.— Cav., Icon., t. 39, 40, 150.— Sibtii., Fl. fig. 7.— Sibth., Fl. Grtrc, t. 712. 



