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US. Parochetus Ham. 1 — Calyx-lobes 4, 5, imbricated; 2 superior 

 connate to a considerable height or entirely. Petals free from 

 staminal tube ; standard obovate, shortly unguiculate ; wings falcate- 

 oblong ; keel shorter than wings, inflexed. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 

 phous (9—1). Germen sessile, surrounded at base by a rather 

 prominent disk arched below, cc-ovulate; style glabrous, inflexed 

 above ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume linear, finally rather 

 turgid, obliquely acute, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds funi- 

 culate exarillate. — A prostrate herb, rooting at nodes ; leaves 

 digitate 3-foliolate ; stipules a little adnate to petiole or free ; 

 flowers 2 axillary pedunculate, solitary or in twos or threes ; bracts 

 stipuliform ; bractlets {Tropical Asia and Africa 71 ). 



119. Ononis L. 4 — Keceptacle somewhat concave ,and oblique, 

 glandular within. Calyx subovoid gamosepalous ; lobes 5, equal or 

 a little unequal, originally slightly imbricated in aestivation, finally 

 remote. Petals shortly unguiculate : standard suborbicular or 

 obovate ; claw nearly absent ; wings obovate-oblong ; keel curved, 

 beaked or more rarely obtuse. Stamens 10, all connate into a closed 

 tube, or more rarely vexillary stamen free ; filaments finally free, all 

 or 5 alternate dilated above; alternipetalous anthers versatile ; oppo- 

 sitipetalous subbasifixed, a little longer ; more rarely all uniform. 

 Germen sessile or stipitate, pilose or bearded on both sides or 

 ventrally above ; style curved glabrous ; stigma terminal, capitate 

 or oblique ; ovules 2- oc, descending. Legume oblong or linear ; 

 turgid or terete, 2-valved, continuous within ; or more rarely 

 compressed torulose, spuriously septate between seeds. Seeds exaril- 

 late. — Herbs or undershrubs, more rarely shrubs ; glabrous or villous, 

 sometimes spinous, often viscous glandular ; leaves alternate, usually 

 pinnate 3-foliolate; leaflets denticulate; stipules lateral, adnate to 

 petiole ; flowers 5 on axillary peduncles, solitary or 2-3 racemose ; 



29 ; PL Ear. Sort. Gen., t. 16.— Reichb., PL 

 Grit., t. 343, 344, 577, 578.— Boiss., Diagn. PI. 

 Or., ix. 11. — Geen. & Goim., Fl. de Fr., i. 

 396.— Bakes, in Oliv. Fl, Trop. Afr., ii. 49.— 

 Walp., Rep., i. 636 ; ii. 847 ; Ann., i. 225 ; ii. 344. 



1 Ex Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal., 240.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 402.— Endl,, Gen., n. 6519.— B. H., 

 Gen., 485, n. 70. — Cosmiusa Alee., in Bol. 

 Zeit. (1866), 146. 



- Blue or purplish. Lower flowers small or ape- 

 fcalous, ripening their fruits on or under the ground. 



3 Species 1. Wigiit& Arn., Prodr.,\. 251. — 

 Wight, Icon., t. 483. — Rotle, Illustr. PL 

 HimaL, t. 35. — Benn., PI. Jav. Rar., t. 34. — ■ 

 Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 48. 



4 Gen., n. 863.— J., Gen., 351.— Gjertn., 

 Fruct., ii. 313, t. 154.— DC., Prodr., ii. 159 

 (part.). — Endl., Gen., n. 6493. — B. H., Gen., 

 485, n. 69. — Natrix McENcn, Meth., L58. — 

 Anonis Mcench, loc. ciL, 157. 



5 Fink or yellow. 



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