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minal, capitate or oblique, or more rarely dorsal. Legume (usually 

 included by marcescent perianth) oblong- subterete or obovate com- 

 pressed, usually membranous, indehiscent. Seeds 1 or few, exaril- 

 late. — Herbs ; leaves digitate, 3- or more rarely 5-7-foliolate, more 

 rarely pinnate ; leaflets marked by lines at margin, usually denti- 

 culate ; stipules adnate to petiole ; flowers capitate or spicate, more 

 rarely subumbellate or solitary; inflorescences sometimes 1 -lateral, 

 either axillary or leaf-opposed or (the terminal bud being un- 

 developed) spuriously terminal ; bracts variable or 0, persistent or 

 deciduous, lower ones sometimes connate into an involucre {Tempe- 

 rate and sub-tropical regions of Northern Hemisphere, tropical Sot/I// 

 America, tropical Africa). See p. 209. 



115. Medicago L. 1 — Eeceptacle somewhat concave ; calyx gamo- 

 sepalous, nearly equally 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Petals free ; standard 

 oblong or obovate, narrowed and contracted at base ; wings obliquely 

 oblong ; keel longer or oftener shorter than wings, obtuse. Stamen 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; filaments not dilated, lower ones connate into a 

 broad sheath cleft above; anthers uniform. Germen sessile or shortly 

 stipitate, 1- or oftener oo-ovulate ; style more or less dilated; apex 

 subulate glabrous ; stigma subcapitate oblique. Legume more or 

 less spirally falcate, or oftener spirally arched and reticulated, un- 

 armed or spinous, often prickly at back, scarcely or not dehiscent, 

 1- co-seeded. Seeds exarillate. — Shrubs or oftener herbs ; leaves 

 pinnate 3-foliolate ; leaflets often denticulate ; stipules adnate to 

 petiole ; flowers 2 solitary or few, or oftener numerous in cylindrical 

 or short capitate, axillary or subaxillary racemes ; bracts small or ; 

 bractlets {Northern and temperate regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, 

 and America?). 



116. Melilotus T. 4 — Calyx 5-toothed; teeth nearly equal to each 



1 Gen., n. 1214. — J., Gen., 356. — Gjertn., Webb, Phut. Canar., t. 56.— Coss., Fl. Alger., 

 Fruct., ii. 348, 1. 155.— See., in DC, Prodr., ii. t. 88, 89.— Gren. & God it., Fl. de Ft:, i. 382. — 

 171.— Endl., Gen., n. 6507.— B. H., Gen.,48?, Baker, in Olio. FL Trop. Afr., ii. 50.— Sot. 

 n. 72.— Medica T., Inst., 410, t. 231. — ? Dip- Mag., t. 1)09.— Walp., Rep., i. 635 j ii. 487 ; 

 loprion Vis., Fl. Lib., 48, t. 19, tig. 2. Ann., i. 224; ii. 343 ; iv. 473. 



2 Small ; violet or yellowish. 4 Inst., 406, t. 229.— J., Gen., 356. — G EH i v. 



3 Species about 40. 3 acq,., Hort. Vindob.,\. Fnwt., ii. 333 (part.), t. 153 (part.).— Lamk., 

 t. 89; Icon. Rar., t. 156. — Cav., Icon., ii. t. Diet., iv. 61 j Suppl., iii. 646; III., t. 613. — 

 130.— Sibth., Fl. Grcec.,t. 767, 769, 770.— Sek., in DC, Prodr., ii. 186. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 Vis., Fl. Dalmat., t. 43.— Moius, Fl. Sard., t, 6510.— B. H., Gen., 487, n. 7;!. 



35-53.— DC, Icon. PL Gall. Rar., t. 27, 28.— 



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