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racemes or spikes ; bracts herbaceous or scarious ; bractlets below 

 calyx, often minute setaceous, more rarely nearly or quite absent 

 (Europe, temperate Asia, northern Africa 1 ). 



127. Ebenus L. 2 — Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, elongated 

 subulate, nearly equal, plumose. Petals very unequal ; standard 

 obovate or obcordate, very shortly unguiculate ; wings short ; keel 

 about equal to standard, obliquely truncate at apex. Stamens 10, 

 2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen afterwards connate 

 with remainder; anthers uniform. Geraien sessile short, 1- or 

 more rarely 2-6-ovulate ; style slender innexed ; apex minute 

 stigmatiferous. Legume compressed, ovate or oblong, 1- or more 

 rarely few-seeded (Ebenidiwn 3 ). — Herbs, or unarmed undershrubs, or 

 small spinescent shrubs (sterile petioles rigid sharp) ; leaves im- 

 paripinnate, or subdigitate 3-foliolate ; stipules connate into one 

 oppositifolious ; flowers 4 crowded, in dense long-pedunculate axillary 

 spikes ; bracts linear or lanceolate ; bractlets minute or (Mediter- 

 ranean, western Asia''). 



128. -ffischynomene L. 6 — Calyx gamosepalous: lobes 5, nearly 

 equal or connate into 2 lips ; upper lip 2 -fid, 2 -toothed, or entire ; lower 

 nearly entire or 3 -fid ; a3stivation imbricated. Petals shortly un- 

 guiculate ; standard orbicular ; wings about equal to standard, 

 oblique ; keel obovate, slightly curved or oftener much curved or 

 beaked. 7 Stamens 10; either 1-adelphous, sheath cleft above, or 

 evenly 2-adelphous, sheath cleft on both sides ; vexillary stamen 

 rarely separate from remainder, anthers uniform. Grermen stipitate ; 

 ovules 2-co , style curved beardless ; apex scarcely dilated or mi- 

 nutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate; segments 2-oc, 

 Hat, or thicker at middle and so convex, smooth or muricated- 



1 Species about 50. Jacq., Fl. Atislr., t. 352 

 (Hedysarum). — Desf., Fl. Atlnnt., t. 201 

 (Hedysarum). — Desvx., Journ. Bot., i. 125, t. 

 6.— Sibth., Fl. Grate, t. 722-726.— Gren. & 

 Uodr., Fl. de Fr., i. 505. — Fenzl., in Tchihatch. 

 As. Mm., Bot., t. 6.— Bot. Reg. (1847), t. 37.— 

 Walp., Rep., i. 716; ii. 894; Ann., i. 250; ii. 

 414 (Sartoria), 416; iv. 545. 



2 Gen., n. 895. — Desvx., in Act. Soc. Mis!. 

 Nat. Par., i. 21, t. 3. — DC, M6m. Legum., t. 

 53; Prodr., ii. 350. — Endl., Gen., n. 6624.— 

 I!. IT., Gen., 512, n. 147. 



3 Jaub. & SpaCH, in Ann. Si-. Nat., ser. 2, 

 xix. 162; 111. Plant. Orient., iii. 210. 



4 "Reddish." 



5 Species about 8. Vahl, Synth., ii. t. 1 1 

 {Hedysarum).— Sibth., Fl. Grate, t. 739, 740.— 

 Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 260. — Jaub. 

 & Spach, op. cit., iii. t. 250-255. — Bot. May., 

 t. 1092.— Walp., Rep., ii. 897. 



6 Gen., n. 888.— J., Gen., 362.— C.^ktx., 

 Fruct., ii. t, 155.— DC, Prodr., ii. 320.— 

 Desvx., Joum. Bot., i. 121, t. (!.— Kndl., Gen., 

 „. 6605. — B. II., Gen., 515, n. L59. 



7 Shorter in Rueppelia Rich. (A.), Fl. Abyss. 

 '/'< a/., i. 203, t. 37, which is a species ol JSschy. 

 nomerie. 



