LÉGUMINEUSES-PAPILIONACÉES. 237 
GENERA 
IL VICIEÆ. 
1. Vieia T. — Flores irregulares resupinati ; receptaculo concavo, 
sæpius obliquo, intus discifero. Calyx gamophyllus; lobis v. dentibus 5, 
subæqualibus ; supremis 2 brevioribus, v. infimo longiore ; præfloratione 
imbricata v. subvalvata. Corolla papilionacea : vexillum obovatum oblon- 
gumve emarginatum; ungue lato brevi; alæ obliquæ, sæpius oblongæ, 
Carinæ medio adhærentes : carina alis brevior falcata. Stamina 10, 
2-adelpha (9-1); vexillari libero v. cum cæteris plus minus coalito ; 
cæteris 9 in vagimam supra fissam, ore obliquo, connatis; antheris 
L-formibus introrsis, 2-locularibus, longitudinaliter rimosis. Germen ses- 
sile v. stipitatum ; ovulis 2 (Zroum) v. sæpius æ , incomplete campylo- 
tropis, plerumque descendentibus; micropyle extrorsum supera ; stylo 
inflexo filiformi v. leviter superne a latere v. a dorso compresso, apice 
dorso pilorum fasciculo barbato, v. cireumeirca piloso v. pubescente, 
rarius imberbi (Ervwm); stigmate terminal. Legumen forma varium 
compressum, intus continuum ; pericarpio membranaceo v. rarius crasso 
subcarnoso v. coriaceo (Faba), 2-valvi. Semina globosa v. compressa ; 
funiculo in arillum ad hilum oblongum v. linearem dilatato ; embryonis 
Carnosi cotyledonibus crassis; radicula inflexa accumbente. — Herbæ 
humiles erectæ +. diffusæ, sæpius cirrorum ope scandentes; foliis al- 
ternis pinnatis ; petiolo omnium v. superiorum in setulam recurvam 
v. in cirrum simplicem ramosumve desinente; foliolis æ- v. rarius 
1, 2-jugis integris dentatisve exstipellatis; stipulis semisagittatis; flori- 
bi ad axillas 1-3- nis Y. : sæpius in racemos (spurios?) ad sis foliorum 
laterales dispositis; b : bracteolis 0. (Reg. 
temper. hemisph. bor. et Americæ mul )— Vid. p. 197 
