— Uraria,) LEGUMINOS#. 419 
under the reniform leaflet subulate. Flowers usually in pairs on 
terminal or axillary racemes; bracts large, striate, deciduous ; 
bracteoles minute or 0. Sepals 5, connate in a very short tube 
with subequal, setaceous teeth. Petals minute; standard orbicu- 
lar, emarginate, narrowed to a claw; wings oblong, adnate to the 
obtuse keel. Stamens 10; Shire’) filament free, the rest con- 
nate; anthers uniform ary subsessile, l-ovuled ; style short, 
inflexed above, itches’ alts stigma terminal, capitate. Fruit 
& compressed, dimidiate, indehiscent, 1-seeded, membranous, re- 
ticulate lomentum; dorsal margin straight. Seed transversely 
oblong, subreniform ; strophiole 
592. Exeroris SORORIA coe F. B. LL ii 153. Hedysarum 
sororium F 
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A slender, trailing annual. 
267. Uraria Desvy. 
Perennial herbs or undershrubs; leaves odd-pinnate, leaflets 
1-9; stipules free, acuminate, striate below; stipels subulate. 
Flowers many, in terminal spicate racemes; bracts ovate or 2 
ceolate, acuminate, persistent or deciduous; bracteoles 0. Sepals 
5, connate in a very short tube; 2 upper teeth short, 8 lower ~ 
setaceous. Petals small; standard orbicular or obovate, narrowed 
to a claw ; wings falcate-oblong, adnate to the slightly ineurved, 
obtuse keel. — 10; vexillary filament free, the rest con- 
nate; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, 2-many- 
oes style Bite inflexed ; stigma terminal, capitate, Fruit 
® lomentum of 2-6 small, turgid, 1-seeded, indehiscent joints, 
usually more or less folded together within the calyx, occasionally 
faleately P digomees and exserted. Seeds orbicular or subglobose ; 
strophiole 
Upper leaves 5-9 folio 
esa clouded, a sails shortly bristly ; joints of pod 
shini 
Ssaeeer eee weeeareee 
Laaitets green, oblong ; pedicels clothed with fous bristles ; en of 
PNG 5 cnis av ais si eins rodienex sta uunse Aube rra eee eee gees mesa ee inita. 
Leaves 3-1- foliolate intermixed :-— 
*Stems ogg ; leaflets small, orbieular or oblong ; heads short, 
— oblong ; bracts narrow, ciliated, persistent; lower calyx-teet 
ugated ; Salita of pod finely pubescent [p. 420] ceeserseress lagopoides, 
