LÉGUMINEUSES-PAPILIONACÉES. 331 
tariis, 2-nis v. sæpius fasciculatis; bracteis bracteolisque parvis, sæpius 
caducis. (Asa rop., Africa or. et ins., Australia, America trop.*) 
VIII GENISTEÆ. 
194. Genista T. — Receptaculum parvum leviter glandulosum. 
Calyx gamophyllus ; lobis 2 superioribus liberis v. plus minus connatis ; 
inferioribus 3 in labium 3-dentatum connatis. Corollæ papilionaceæ 
vexillum subovatum ; alæ oblongæ; carina subrecta v. incurva obtusa 
lateraliter 2-gibba; unguibus liberis v. tubo stamineo adnatis. Stamina 
10, 1-adelpha ; tubo dlatiso antheris 5 alternis brevioribus versatilibus, 
alternis 5 longioribus subbasifixis. Germen sessile ; ovulis 2-x ; stylo 
incurvo, inflexo v. rarius circinato, apice capitato v. obliquo stigma- 
toso. Legumen subglobosum, v. ovatum, corneo-carnosum, indehiscens 
(Bælia), v. leviter compressum, ægre dehiscens (Retama), hinc sub- 
rhombeum obliquum v. falcato - oblongum, 2- valve; valvis duris 
(Drymospartum, Voglera), inde lineare v. elongatum subrectum compres- 
sum, 2-valve; valvis tenuibus (Corniola), rarius oblique oblongum tur- 
gidum rectum falcatumve (Camptolobium). Semina 1- ; embryonis 
carnosi exalbuminosi v. parce albuminosi radicula inflexa ?. — Frutices 
v. suffrutices; ramis virgatis junceis (Drymospartum), Y. spmescentibus 
(Voglera, Camptolobium), hinc aphyllis, v. foliis paucis 1-foliolatis 
(Bælia, Retama), inde virgatis; folüs 1-3-foliolatis , sæpius parvis ; 
Slüipulis minutis v. 0; floribus ad apices ramorum racemosis, capitatis 
v. fasciculatis, ramis Iateralibus solitariis, paucis v. fasciculatis ; bracteis 
bracteolisque parvis deciduis v. sr ds ane diutius persisten— 
libus. (Asie occ., Africa bor.) — Vid. p. 2 
195. Spartium L.5 — Flores Geniste; calyce spathaceo breviter 
inæquali-5-dentato, sub-2-labio, postice demum fisso ; vexillo amplo, intus 
Paulo supra basin MCE pinounee alarum et carinæ unguibus 
1. Spec. ad. 40. rar : Ps coromand., 2. « Character semioum estrophiolatorum 
Le 192. = War, PL ., & 237. — nobis satis eum habitu convenire videtur, etsi in 
Wicur, Jeon., t. 87, 240, em 975. — DC., paucis speciebus incertum. » (BENTH.) 
Frodr…, 13, , mn. 43 (Lonchocarpus), — 3. Gen., n. 858. — J., Gen., 353. — DC, 
BExru. in P/. Jungh., 1, 252: in Journ, Lin.  Prodr., M, 145. — ENDL., Gen., n. 6497. — 
ne : . ; in nn. LE 
Soc, IV, Suppl, 1014: in Mart. Fl. bras, B. H., Gen., 483, n. 63. Sprint 
Pit : 287, 4:407.— Tuw., Enum. pl. Zeut, Enum. Hort. berol., I, 223. — SpaCH, Suit. à 
