LEGUMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NACE2E. 



331 



inconspicuous ; flowers 1 very shortly racemose subfascicled on short 

 twigs among fascicles of leaves ; bract 3-fid or 3-crenate, inserted at 

 top of pedicel, embracing flower {Mediterranean 3 ). 



198. Adenocarpus DC. 4 — Flowers almost those of Genista; 2 

 superior lobes of calyx nearly or quite free ; 3 inferior more or less 

 connate. Keel much curved or shortly beaked. Legume sessile 

 linear compressed, glandular-tubercular or muricated outside, 2- 

 valved. — Shrubs, villous or silky ; branches often divaricated ; leaves 

 digitate 3-foliolate ; stipules small setaceous or minute ; flowers 5 in 

 terminal racemes ; bracts and bractlets small caducous or larger 

 foliaceous and longer persistent {Southern Europe, northern and tropical 

 Africa, Canary Islands 6 ). 



199. Petteria Presl. 7 — Flowers nearly of Genista or La- 

 burnum ; calyx tubular ; 2 superior lobes free, broadly falcate ; 3 

 inferior connate into a 3-toothed lip. Petals adnate at base to 

 staminal tube. Legume broadly linear, compressed subfalcate, con- 

 tinuous within, 2-valved ; sutures scarcely thickened, wingless. — A 

 shrub, almost glabrous ; leaves digitate 3-foliolate ; stipules small ; 

 flowers 8 in dense terminal racemes ; bract inserted on pedicel, mem- 

 branous caducous {Dalmatia 9 ). 



200. Argyrolobium Eckh. & Zeyh. 10 — Flowers almost those of 

 Cytisus ; calyx deeply cleft ; 2 superior lobes connate or nearly free ; 

 3 inferior connate into a 3-fid or 3-toothed lip. Keel obtuse 

 Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; tube closed or more or less deeply longi- 

 tudinally cleft above. Legume linear compressed, often narrowed at 



1 Yellow. 



2 " Bracts connate with bractlets?" (Benth.). 



3 Species 3 or 4. T., Inst., 618 (Cytisus).— 

 L., Spec, 997 (Spartium). — Lamk., Diet., ii. 

 247 (Cytisus).— DC, Prodr., ii. 154, n. 13, 14 

 (Cytisus).— Sibth., Ft. Grose., t. 673. — Geen. 

 & Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 346.— But. Reg. (1816), 

 t. 55. 



4 Fl. Fr., Suppl., 549 ; Prodr., ii. 158.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6492.— B. H., Gen., 481, n. 58. 



5 Yellow. 



6 Species 8. W., Spec, iii. 837 (Genista).— 

 SlBTH., Fl. Grcec, t. 704. — Boiss., Voy., t. 41, 

 42. — Webb, Otiu Uisp., t. 4; Phyl. Cunar., t. 

 50, 50 B.— Geen. & Gcxdb., Fl. de Fr., i. 363.— 



Bakee, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 47. — Bot. 

 Mag., t. 426, 1387 (Cytisus).— Walp., Rep., i. 

 624; ii. 838. 



^ But. Bern,, 139.— B. H., Gen., 482, n. 61. 



8 Yellow. 



9 Species 1. P. ramentacea Peesl, loc cit. — 

 Cytisus ramentaceus Sieb., in Flora, v. 2 12. — 

 C. Weldenii Vis., in Flora, xiii. 52; /•'/. 

 Dalmat., t. 39.— Bot. Reg. (1843), t. 40.— 

 Walp., Ann., i. 223. 



10 Enum., 18 4.— Endl., Gen., n. 6504.— B. H., 

 Gen., 480, n. 57. — Gamochilum Wai.p., in Lin- 

 ncea, xiii. 509. — Trichasma Walp., loc. cit., 510. — 

 ? Chamcecytisus VlS., Fl. Dalmat., 27-, t- 55 (ox 

 Benth.). 



