292 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



peduncle often aristate above pedicel ; racemes small, more rarely 

 (the floral leaves being reduced to bracts) crowded into a spiciform 

 terminal raceme (Europe, western Asia, northern Africa}). 



VI. HEDYSAKE.E. 



120. Hedysarum T. — Eeceptacle small concave, glandular within. 

 Calyx gamosepalous, inserted in receptacle, nearly equally 5-toothed 

 or 5-lobed. Petals free; standard obovate or obcordate, scarcely 

 unguiculate; wings obliquely oblong, 1 -auriculate, shorter than 

 standard or very short ; claws short slender ; keel usually longer 

 than wings, obtuse, arched or obliquely truncate dorsally at apex. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; filaments free at apex, inflexed with 

 style ; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile pauci- or co-ovulate ; 

 style thin ; apex stigmatiferous, not thickened. Legume piano- 

 compressed, divided into oo closed indehiscent 1 -seeded, suborbicu- 

 lar or square, smooth or muricated, separating segments. Seeds 

 reniform compressed exarillate. — Perennial herbs or more rarely 

 shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets entire, often 

 sprinkled with pellucid dots ; stipules 2, lateral ; flowers- in axillary 

 pedunculate racemes ; bracts variable ; bractlets 2, laterally inserted 

 below calyx, setaceous {Temperate regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, 

 and North America). See p. 212. 



121 ? Taverniera DC. 3 — Flowers of Hedysarum ; vexillary stamen 

 connate at middle with remainder or finally free. Germen stipitate ; 

 ovules 1-3 ; style slender inflexed ; apex minutely stigmatiferous. 

 Legume piano-compressed (of Hedysarum); segments 1-3, 1 -seeded, 

 separating. — Undershrubs, glabrous or oftener hoary ; branches 

 rigid; leaves few, pinnate 1-3-foliolate; stipules scarious; flowers' 

 few, in axillary pedunculate racemes ; bracts minute or caducous ; 

 bractlets 2, small, persistent below flower 5 {The East, India 6 ). 



1 Species about 60.— Cat., Icon., t. 152-154, 2450.— Walp., Sep., i. 621; ii. 839; v. 460; 



159, 192.— Jacq., Sort. Tindob., t. 93 ; Fl. Ann., i. 217 ; iv. 462. 



Austr., t. 240.— Vent., Jard. CeU., t. 32. — a Purple, white, or yellow. 



Brot., Phyt. Litsit., t. 56-58. — Desf., Fl. 3 Mem. Legttm., 339, t. 52 ; Prodr., ii. 339.— 



Atlant., t. 184-193.— K., Fl. Berol., ii. 219.— Endl., Gen., n. 6617.— B. H., G<?».,511, n. 145. 



Sibth., Fl. Grac, t. 675-680.— Moris, Fl. 4 Pink or white; petals persistent, becoming 



Sard., i. 33, 33 bis.— Webb, Phyt. Canar., t. scarious. 



51-55. — Boiss., Toy., t. 43-17. — Jaub. & s This genus, differs from Hedysarum in 



Spach, III. Plant. Or., i. t. 96, 154, 155.— habit alone, and ought hardly to be retained. 



Bakeb, in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., ii. 48.— Bot. « Species 4 or 5. Bukm., Fl. Itul., t. 51, fig. 



Reg., t. 1447.— Bot. Mag., t. 317, 329, 335, 2 {Eedysonm).— Wight, Icon., t. 1055.— 



