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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



both ends, silky or villous (not glandular), either continuous and not 

 torulose within (Chasmone 1 ) or more or less septate between seeds, 2 

 sometimes marked with oblique lines or finally cleft, 2-valved. — 

 Herbs, undershrubs, or more rarely shrubs, silky or villous ; leaves 

 digitate 3-foliolate ; stipules rather large, free or connate close to 

 base; flowers 3 terminal or leaf-opposed, solitary, geminate, subuni- 

 bellate, or shortly racemose; bracts and bractlets usually small 

 narrow {Southern Europe, northern and southern Africa, western Asia, 

 India*). 



201. Lupinus. 5 — Eeceptacle somewhat concave or nearly flat at 

 apex, lined by a disk. Calyx gamosepalous 2-labiate ; lobes unequal ; 

 3 superior connate into a 2-toothed or 2-fid lip ; 3 inferior connate 

 into an entire, 3-toothed,* or 3-fid lip, usually imbricated. Petals 

 very dissimilar ; standard orbicular or broadly ovate ; wings falcate 

 oblong or obovate, dorsally connate at apex, including curved beaked 

 keel. Stamens 10; filaments all connate into a usually long tube; 

 oppositipetalous anthers longer basifixed ; alternipetalous short 

 versatile. Germen subsessile 2-co -ovulate, tapering at apex into 

 curved glabrous style ; stigma subterminal capitellate, apex slightly 

 bearded on one side. Legume more or less compressed, usually 

 silky or villous, completely or incompletely septate between seeds, 

 2-valved. Seeds shortly funiculate ; hilum oblong or linear, often 

 subarillate ; embryo fleshy exalbuminous ; radicle considerably 

 inflexed. — Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely shrubs ; leaves simple or 

 digitate 3- co-foliolate ; stipules adnate to petiole at base ; flowers 6 

 scattered or subverticillate in terminal racemes ; bracts usually 

 caducous ; bractlets usually persistent, inserted at a variable height 

 on receptacle and sometimes below calyx (Northern, subtropical, and 

 temperate America, Mediterranean'). 



1 E. Met., Comm. PI. Afr. Aust., 71 (part.). 

 a Section Fremolohium (Bbnth., he. cit.). 



3 Yellow. 



4 Species about 40, of which about 30 are 

 South African. Reichb., PI. Crit., t. 259. — 

 Jacquem., Toy., Pot., t. 40. — Bkot., Phyt. 

 Limit., t. 69. — J acq., Sort. Schoenbr., ii. t. 220 

 (Orotalaria). — Andr,, Pot. Eepos., t. 237 

 (Cylisus). — Jaub. & Spach, III. 11. Orient., t. 

 59, 60.— Harv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 67, 76. — 

 Baker, in Olio. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 44. — Gke>. 

 & Godr., Fl, de Fr., i. 363.— Walp., Rep., ii. 

 840 ; v. 509 ; Ann., i. 222 ; ii. 341 ; iv. 470. 



5 Inst., 392, t. 213.— L., Gen., n. 865.— J., 

 Gen., 354.— (in; in.. Wrvct., ii. 324, t. 150.— 

 Lamk., Diet., iii. 620; Suppl., iii. 519; III., t. 

 616.— DC, Prod/:, ii. 406.— Space, Suit, a 

 Puffon, i. 341.— Exdl., Gen., n. 6173.— B. H., 

 Gta„ ISO, n. 56. 



6 While, yellow, pink, blue, or variegated; 

 often sweet-scented. 



' Species about 50. K., Mimos., t. 50-52. — 

 Sibtii., FL Grac, t. 684-686. — Moris, Fl. 

 s,tr<I., t. 72. — Hook., Icon., t. 511, 521. — J. E. 

 AGAKltu., Syn. Gen. Lupin., Lundiac (1835). — 



