100 XXIII. LBGUMINOSAE. [Lupinus. 



Tribe V. HEDYSARBAE.*— Herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 3 or many. Upper 

 stamen free. Pod indehiscent, articulations few or many, l-seeded, sepa- 

 rating transversely. 



* Onobeyohis. Pod 1-oelled, l-seeded. 



VI. VIOIEAE.* — Herbs, often climbing. Leaves pinnate ; rhachis ending in a simple or 

 branched tendril or- a bristle ; leaflets often toothed. Upper stamen free. 

 Pods 2-valved, 1-oelled. 



* ViciA. Style flliform, hairy below or all round. 



' Lens. Style filiform or slightly flattened, hairy on the upper surface only. 



* Lathyeus. Style flattened, hairy on the upper surface only. 



VII. PHASEOLEAE. — Twining or prostrate herbs, rarely suflruticose. Leaves 1-7-folioIate ; 



leaflets stipellate. Upper filament quite free or at the base only. Pod 2- 

 valved, several-seeded, 



7. Canavalia. Two upper lobes of the calyx coherent, three lower lobes minute, 



free. Style beardless. Pod straight. 



* DoLicHoa. Two upper lobes of the calyx coherent. Wings adnate to the keel. 



Pod falcaie. 



VIII. SOPHOEEAB! — Shrubs or trees. Leaves pinnate. Stipellae 0. Stamens all free or 



slightly united at the base. 



8. SoPHOEA. Corolla papilionaceous ; standard short. Stamens exserted. Pod terete 



or 4-angled or winged, moniliform. 



SuB-oEDEE II.— MIMOSEAE. 



Mowers small, regular, sessile in spikes or heads, rarely pedicellate. Sepals 

 and petals 5 or 4, rarely 3 or 6, valvate, rarely imbricate, free or united. Stamens 

 equalling the petals or indefinite, free or united. Eadicle straight. 



* Acacia. Stamens indefinite, all free. 

 Aleizzia. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous. 



* LUPINUS, Tourn. 

 Calyx unequally 2-lipped ; lobes toothed. Standard reflexed at the sides ; keel 

 arcuate. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers oblong or roundish. Pod oblong, flat- 

 tened, often constricted between the seeds. Cotyledons fleshy. Herbs, rarely 

 shrubs. Leaves palmately 1-many-foliolate. Mowers in terminal racemes or spikes. 



*L. arboreus, Sims., Bot. Mag. t. 682. A shrub, 3ft.-6ft. high, with spreading 

 branches. Leaves and pedicels silky. Stipules adnate to the petiole. Leaflets 6-9, 

 linear- oblong -spathulate. Eacemes terminal. Mowers verticillate, pale -yellow. 

 Calyx deeply 2-fid, unequal, silky ; upper lobe linear-ovate ; lower broadly ovate, 

 shorter. Pod 6-seeded, silky. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Turakina, &c. ; Paikakariki ; Kaikoura, &o. Scarcely natural- 

 ised, but persistent and increasing. Dec, Jan. California. 



» ULEX, Linn. 

 Calyx membranous, 2-fid, the upper part with 2 minute teeth, the lower with 3 ; 

 bracts 2, minute. Stamens monadelphous. Pod 2-valved; ovules many. Much- 

 branched spinous shrubs. 



* U. Europaeus, L., Sp. PI. 241. Stems furrowed, lft.-6ft. high. Leaves ex- 

 stipulate, 1-3-foliolate on seedling plants, ultimately reduced to spines or small 

 scales; spines branching at the base. Mowers lateral, solitary or racemose, bright- 

 yellow. Calyx hairy. Wings exceeding the keel, obtuse. 



Naturalised throughout the colony. Fume. Wliin. Qorse. Aug. to April. Europe : Den- 

 mark to Italy, &c, 



