LEG UMIN0SJ1-FAFILI0NACE2E. 305 



5 alternate filaments dilated above; anthers uniform. Germen 

 sessile ; ovules co ; style intlexed ; apex capitate stigmatiferous. 

 Legume linear, compressed or subterete, sometimes slender (Arthro- 

 lobium 1 ), arched or more rarely straight ; segments oblong ovate or 

 globose, separated by very narrow joints (Antopetitia 2 ). Seeds ovate 

 subglobose or transversely oblong. — Herbs, villous or more rarely 

 glabrous ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets co, exstipellate ; stipules 

 narrow or membranous ; flowers small, in axillary long-pedunculate 

 pseudo-capitula or umbels ; floral leaves pinnate, or inflorescence more 

 rarely leafless (Arthrolobi/im) ; bracts and bractiets minute or {Europe, 

 western Asia, northern regions and western islands of Africa, South 

 America 3 ). 



147. Hammatolobium Fenzl. 4 — Flowers nearly of Ornithopus, 

 larger ; keel rather acute. Legume linear ; segments piano-com- 

 pressed or convex. — Perennial herbs, silky villous ; stem short 

 wood}? - ; leaves usually 5-foliolate ; either 2 inferior leaflets close to 

 stem (petiole short) and stipuliform ; or all leaflets subdigitate, and 

 (petiole nearly evanescent) almost sessile ; stipules minute, flowers 4 

 few, usually 2, on axillary peduncles ; floral bract 2-foliolate {IFesfem 

 Asia, northern Africa 6 ). 



148. Scorpiurus L. 7 — Eeceptacle shortly concave, thick glandular 

 within. Calyx gamosepalous ; 2 superior lobes or teeth connate to 

 a greater height than others. Petals rather long-unguiculate ; 

 standard suborbicular ; win^s obliquely oblong ; keel curved, acute 

 or acuminate. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform. 

 Germen subsessile cc-ovulate, longitudinally furrowed; style in- 

 flexed, more or less dilated at middle, tapering at apex ; stigma 

 capitate terminal. Legume unevenly terete, circinate-revolute, 

 unevenly furrowed and ribbed ; ribs originally ventral, often tuber- 



1 Destx., Journ. Bot., i. 121, t. 4.— Kxdt.., 4 77/. Plan!. Sip:, i. t. 1.— B. H., Gen., 509, 

 Gen., n. 5586. — Astrolobiiun DC, Prodr., ii. D. 138. — J." lovicia Coss., in Bull. Soc. Bot. de 

 311 (part.). Ft., iii. 674. (Legume more compressed than in 



2 A. Rich., in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 2, xiv. 261, 77. lotoides Fenzl.) 



t. 15, fig. 2 ; Fl. Abyss. Tent., t. 39. 5 Yellow, finally dusky. 



3 Species about 7. Beot., Phyt. Lvsit., t. 67, '' Species 2. \Valp., Pep., i. 72 1. 



68.— Sibth., Fl. GrcEc.,t. 714. — Hochst., in ' Gen., n. 886. -J., Gen., 361. — G-EBTN., 



Field, et Gardn. Serf. PL, t. 49. — BENTH., in Fruct., ii. 345, t. 155.— DC, Prodr., ii. 3oS.— 



Mart. Fl. Bra.?., Papil., 51, t. 11. — Gben. & Endl., Gen., a. 6584.— B. H., Gen., 508, n. 



Godr., Fl. de Fr., i. 498. — BaXEB, in Olir. Fl. 137.—Scorpioides T., Inst., 402, t. 226.— 



Trop. Afr., ii. 139. — Walp., Ann., ii. 406 Scorpius Lois., Fl. Gall., 468. 

 (Antopetitia) ; iii. 849; iv. 5o2. 



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