294 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



125? Corethrodendron Basin. 1 — "Calyx-teeth nearly equal, 2 

 superior connivent. Standard broadly obovate, narrowed into a 

 short claw ; wings short ; keel curved obtuse, a little shorter than 

 standard. Vexillary stamen free ; remainder connate ; anthers 

 uniform. Germen stipitate oc -ovulate ; st}de filiform curved ; stigma 

 small terminal. Legume linear subterete ; segments subovoid sepa- 

 rating, indehiscent. Seeds reniform estrophiolate. — A broom-like 

 shrub, thinly hoary ; lower leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets quite 

 entire, exstipellate ; petioles of upper leaves spinescent, without 

 leaflets ; stipules connate into one oppositifolious, deciduous ; flowers 

 (purple ?) in long-pedunculate axillary racemes ; bracts small cadu- 

 cous ; bractlets very small (Dzungarid)" 



126. Onobrychis G;ertn. ; — Eeceptacle somewhat concave, or 

 nearly flat at apex. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes subulate, equal or 

 lowest lobe smaller ; 2 superior often separating widely one after the 

 other; rather imbricated in aestivation, finally quite free. Petals 

 often very dissimilar ; standard obovate or obcordate, narrowed at 

 base, subsessile ; wings short or very short ; keel obtuse or truncate, 

 about equal to or longer than standard. Stamens 10, 9 lower ones 

 connate into a tube ; vexillary stamen free close to base, a little 

 higher usually connate with remainder ; anthers uniform, usually fixed 

 by middle of back ; connective often ellipsoidal, glandular at back. 

 Germen sessile or supported on a short cylindrical stalk; ovules 1, 

 2 ; style filiform, suberect or inflexed ; stigma minute terminal. 

 Legume semi-orbicular or unevenly orbicular-circinate, compressed,, 

 not jointed, coriaceous, echinate or crested, or more rarely smooth, 

 deeply wrinkled or reticulated, indehiscent, or more rarely 2-seeded. 

 Seeds broadly reniform or oblong, exarillate. Herbs, unarmed 

 undershrubs, or more rarely small spinous shrubs ; leaves imparipin- 

 nate, rarely 1-foliolate ; leaflets entire exstipellate ; petioles rarely 

 spinescent ; stipules scarious ; flowers 3 in long-pedunculate axillary 



HI. Plant. Orient., v. t. 401. — A. Camelorum l Monog. Hedysar., 46, t. 2, ex B. H., Gen., 



Fisch., Cat. Hort. Gor. (1812), 72.— A. Napaul- 512, n. 48. 



emwm DC, Ice. cit., n. 3.— A Turcorum Boiss., - Inst., 390, t. 211. — G.ertn., Fruct., ii. 318, 



Diagn. PI. Orient., ix. 113.— A. Gracorum t. 148.— DC, Prodr., ii. 344 (part.).— Endl., 



Boiss., loc. cit., 114. — Hedysarwm Alhagi L., Gen., n. 6619.— B. H., Gen., 511, n. 146.— 



Spec, 1051 (part.). — H. Pseud o-AViagi HoR. & Friocarpcua Bertol., Misc. But., ii. 20. — 



Chaub.— Manna hebraica Don, loc. cit.—M. Sartoria Boiss., Diagn. Plant. Orient., ix. 



caspica Don. — M. nepaulensis Don. — Ononis 109. 



spinosa Hasselq. (nee L.).— Genista Juasi 3 Whitish, pink, or purplish. 



Ham. — Agul Rauw., It., 94, icon. 



