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Sub-Tribe I.— CORONILLEiE. 



Pod cylindrical or slightly compressed, not much constricted 

 between the joints, which are numerous, rugose with elevated 

 lines, but not spiny, and very seldom muricate. Elowcrs in 

 umbellate heads. Leaves pinnate, with an odd terminal leaflet: 

 rarely simple. 



GENUS XIII.— O RNITHOPUS. Linn. 



Calyx cylindrical-bellshaped, with 5 nearly equal teeth, of which 

 the 2 upper ones are united at the base. Standard oval, slightly 

 spreading, longer than the wings ; keel very small, obtuse and not 

 beaked at the apex. Stamens diadelphous, the alternate filaments 

 dilated at the apex. Pod slender, cylindrical or slightly compressed 

 laterally, more or less curved upwards, articulated, breaking into 

 numerous 1-seeded indehiscent joints ; joints not notched on the 

 upper side, reticulated with elevated lines on the sides. 



Small annuals, with leaves having numerous pairs of pinnae, 

 and very small stipules adnate to the petiole or cohering at the 

 base by the margins farthest from it. Plowers in axillary umbellate 

 few-flowered heads, yellow, white, or rose-colour. 



The name of this genus is derived from the two Greek words opne, opvSu^ (ornis, 

 oniithos), a bird, and n-owc {pous), a foot, the legumes exactly resembling a bird's foot. 



Sub-Gentjs I.— EU-ORNITHOPUS. 



Pod compressed, constricted between the joints, which are 

 •widest in the middle and taper gradually to each end. 



SPECIES I.— ORNITHOPUS PERPUSILLUS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCLXXVTII. 



Lower leaves stalked, upper ones sessile ; leaflets 7 to 12 pairs, 

 hairy. Plower-heads 3- to 7-flowered, with a leaflike pinnate bract at 

 the base. Calyx-tube hairy, nearly three times as long as the teeth. 

 Pod hairy or sub-glabrous, compressed, constricted between the 

 joints, abruptly acuminated into a conical-subulate seedless beak 

 nearly as long as the last joint, reticulated with prominent longitu- 

 dinal anastomosing veins. 



