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each stipulaceous sheathing or small deciduous bract; bractlets 

 {Mediterranean, Arabia, Canary Islands'). 



240. Piptanthus D. Don. 2 — Flowers of Thermopsis; standard 

 subequal to wings ; sides reflexed. Legume stipitate broadly linear 

 piano-compressed, continuous within. Seeds minutely arillate. — A 

 shrub ; leaves petiolate, digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules 2, connate 

 into 1, leaf-opposed ; flowers 3 in short racemes at ends of branches ; 

 pedicels 2, 3, in axil of each sheathing deciduous bract 4 {Himalaya ). 



241 ? Pickeringia Nutt. 6 — Flowers nearly of Baptisia ; recep- 

 tacle shortly obconical glandular within, calyx campanulate, with 

 subequal imbricated teeth. Germen shortly stipitate oo-ovulate; 

 style incurved ; stigma minute terminal. Legume. . . . ? — A bushy 

 shrub ; twigs often spinescent ; leaves alternate 1-3 foliolate ; 

 petiole very short concave; stipules or very small; flowers 7 in 

 short terminal racemes or solitary pedunculate in axils of highest 

 leaves of twigs ; bractlets 2, lateral small {California 9 ). 



242. Brachysema E. Br. 9 — Receptacle concave, glandular within. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, of nearly equal length ; 2 superior more or less con- 

 nate ; prsefloration imbricate. Petals usually very unequal ; standard 

 shorter and narrower than wings, often minute, more or less re- 

 curved ; wings narrow oblong ; keel usually longer and broader than 

 wings, incurved; 2 dorsal petals connate. Stamens 10, free; 5 

 alternipetalous longer. Germen sessile or stipitate, 10 co- ovulate; 

 style thin long; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume ovate or 

 elongated ; valves coriaceous. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves either 



1 Species 2. Sibth., Fl. Grac, t. 366.— Thermopsis nepaulensis DC, Prodr., ii. 99, n. 

 Desf., Fl. Atlant., i. 385. — Webb, Phyt. Z.—T. laburnifolia Don, Prodr. FL Nepal., 

 Conor., t. 40.— Lodd., Bot. Cab., t. 740.— 241.— Hook., Exot. Fl., t. 131 {Baptisia). 

 Geen. & Gode., Fl. de Ft:, i. 343. * Ex Tohe. & Ge., Fl. N. Amer., i. 389.— 



2 In Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard., t. 264.— B. H., B. H., Gen., 466, n. 5. 

 Gen., 465, n. 2. 7 « R e d." 



3 Yellow, rather large. s Species 1. P. montana Nr/TT.— Toee., in 



4 This genus, with the flowers and fruit of Emor. Rep., t. 14. — Prickothamnus monlanus 

 Thermopsis, and the stipules and inflorescence of Nutt. 



Anagyris, is, as it were, intermediate between 9 In Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 10. — Endl., 



them, and should perhaps be rather reduced to a Gen., n. 6425. — B. H., Gen., 467, n. 9. 



section of the former ; for the generic separa- "> The section Eubrachyse'ma (s'tem leafy) has 



tion of Thermopsis, Baptisia, Anagyris, and a stipitate germen, surrounded by an inner 



Piptanthus seems hardly correct. sheathing disk within stamens. 

 s Species 1. P. nepaulensis Don, loc. cit. — 



