SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA. 
peduncles, white or pink, and bearing a pinnated bractea 
under each head. 
18. AsTroto'BiumM, [Page 992.] Calyx elongated, tubular, 
five-toothed, unequal. Keel short, compressed. Stameas 
diadelphous. Legumes elongated, curved, cylindrical, 
contracted at the joints, each joint single seeded, and 
separating, with cylindrical truncated ends.—Herbaceous 
smooth plants, with pinnated leaves and small two toothed 
stipules. Flowers small, few, terminating the axillary 
peduncles, yellow, and without a bractea. 
19, Hippo'crepis, [Page 993.] Calyx short, campanulate, 
five-toothed, bi-labiate. Keel acuminated, two lobed. 
Stamens diadelphous. Legume elongated, compressed, 
jointed, curved, the outer edge deeply notched. Seeds 
oblong, cylindrical, curved — Herbaceous plants or shrubs, 
with pinnated leaves, and yellow flowers, either axillary, 
solitary, and sessile, or in umbels at the end of an axillary 
peduncle. 
2. Style downy beneath the sligma. 
20. Vicia, [Page 994.] Calyx tubular, five-cleft or five- 
toothed, unequal. Stamens diadelphous. Style filiform, 
villous on the upper side, and with a tuft of hairs below 
the stigma on the under. Legume oblong, one celled, 
many seeded. Seeds with an oval or linear lateral hilum. 
—Herbaceous climbing plants, with abruptly pinnale 
leaves, terminating in a tendril, peduncles axillary, short 
and one flowered, or long and many flowered. 
21. Er'vom, [Page -] Calyx five-cleft or five-toothed. 
Stawens diadelphous. Style filiform. Stigma capitate, 
downy. Legume oblong, two to four seeded. 
22. Pr'sum, [Page !1002.] Calyx of five foliaceous unequal 
segments. Stamens diadelphous. Vexillum large, re- 
flexed. Style compressed, keeled, villous on the upper 
side. Legume of one cell, oblong, compressed, many 
seeded. Seeds roundish, with a roundish hilum.— 
Annuals. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the leaflets in three 
pairs, the terminal one formed into a tendril, stipules 
large, leafy. 
23. Laruy'rus, [Page 1003.] Calya campanulate, its mouth 
oblique, unequally five-cleft. | Stamens diadelphous 
