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reflexed edges ; keel equal to wings or slightly longer ; petals im- 

 bricate below. Stamens 10, free. Germen sessile or shortly stipi- 

 tate co-ovulate ; style incurved ; stigma minute terminal. Legume 

 sessile or shortly stipitate, oblong linear or inflated, straight or 

 incurved scarcely coriaceous. Seeds arillate or exarillate.— Perennial 

 herbs ; rhizome usually creeping ; annual branches erect, simple or 

 branched, sheathing at base ; lower leaves reduced to broad scarious- 

 membranous sheath passing from entire below to 3 -toothed or 3- 

 dentate ; upper leaves perfect, alternate digitately 3-foliolate, stipules 

 leafy lateral free ; flowers 1 ebracteolate in terminal or leaf-opposed 

 racemes {North America and Eastern Asia 2 ). 



238. Baptisia Vent. 3 — Flowers nearly of Thermopsis ; receptacle 

 obtuse at base or very shortly turbinate. Germen stipitate ; ovules 

 go. Other parts of Thermopsis. Legume stipitate subglobose or 



ovoid, inflated often coriaceous. Seeds arillate or exarillate. — Herbs, 

 with habit of Thermopsis ; leaves 3-foliolate, more rarely simple or 

 perfoliate ; stipules 0, or small, or large foliaceous free ; flowers 4 

 in terminal or leaf- opposed racemes, bracts simple or ; bractlets 2 or 

 {North America 5 ). 



239. Anagyris T. 6 — Flowers nearly of Thermopsis; standard 

 shorter than wings ; sides not reflexed. Germen shortly stipitate ; 

 ovules co. Other parts of Thermopsis. Legume stipitate broadly 

 linear compressed, more or less torulose, with thin incomplete septa 

 inside parting seeds. Seeds cc, exarillate. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate 

 digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules 2, connate into 1 oppositifolious ; 

 flowers 7 in short racemes at ends of branches ; pedicels 2, 3 in axil of 



1 Yellow or purple, rather large and hand- 

 some. 



2 Species about 12. Pall., Astra g., t. 89, 

 90.— Torr. & Ge, Fl. N. Amer., i. 387.— 

 Deless., Icon. Sel., iii. 36, t. 60. — Jacqttem., 

 Toy. Sot., t. 39. — Rotle, III. Himal., t. 32. — 

 Hook., Fl. Bor.-Amer., i. t. 47. — A. Gray, 

 Cldor. Bor.-Amer., t. 7-9.— Bot. Reg., t. 1272.— 

 Bot. Mag., t. 1389 (Podalgria), 3611, 4868.— 

 Walp., Rep., i. 562. 



3 Dec. Gen. Nov., 9.— It. Br., in Ait. Hort. 

 Kew., ed. 2, iii. 5. — DC, Mem. Legum., t. 4; 

 Brodr., ii. 100.— Endl., Gen., n. 6421.— B. H., 

 Gen., 466, n. 4. — Crolalopsis Michx., niss. (ex 

 DC, he. cit.). 



4 White, blue, or yellow. 



5 Species about 14. G#:rtn., Fruet., ii. 321, 

 t. 149 (Sophora). — Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer., i. 

 263.— Vent., Jard. Cels., t. 56.— Sweet, Brit. 

 Fl. Gard., t. 97.— Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. Amer., 

 i. 263.— Bot. Reg., t. 3121.— Bot. Mag., 1. 1099, 

 1177.— Walp., Rep., i. 563; Ann., ii. 307. 



6 Instit., 647, t. 415.— L., Gen., n. 509.— J., 

 Gen., 352. — Lamk., Diet., i. Ill ; Suppl., i. 

 332 ; III., t. 328.— DC, Mem. Legum., t. 4, fig. 

 3; Prodr., ii. 99.— Endl., Gen., n. 6118 (part.). 

 — B. H., Gen., 465, n. 1. 



' Yellow, rather large. 



