140 L. LEGUMiNOsaj. (J. G. Baker.) [Oxytropis, 



at first close, tecoming 2-3 in. long when they expand. Gali/x | in. long, tubular, 

 clothed with large sessile glands, nearly glabrous ; teeth short, linear, pubescent. Corolla 

 bright purple, twice the calyx. Pod half-bilocular, sessile, linear, turgid, recurved, 

 densely gland-dotted, glabrous, bilocular ; seeds 20—30. 



Sect. 3. Phacoidei. Herbaceous caulescent perennials, witli flowers in 

 elongated racemes. — Habit of Astragalus, section JPhaca. 



10. O. diffusa, Zed. Alt. iii. 281 ; Icon. Boss. t. 451. O. glabra, DC. 

 Astrag. No. 81, t. 8 ; Prodr. ii. 280. 



West Tibet, temperate region, alt. 7-8000 feet. — Disteib. West Siberia. 



Caulescent, 1-2 ft. high. Stems copiously branched, firna, slender, zigzag, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaves 2-3 in. long; leaflets 9-13, lanceolate, ^-1 in. long, green, rather 

 thick, acute, glabrous or with only a few minute obscure hairs ; stipules minute, 

 free, deltoid, foliaceous. Racemes 2-4 in. long ; pedicels very short ; bracts minute, 

 lanceolate. Calyx ^ in., campanulate, with a few adpressed black and white hairs. 

 Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod J-|- in. long, oblong, sessile, turgid, unilocular, 

 straight, glabrous, 6-10-seeded. 



28. TAVERNXERA, DC. 



Much-branched undershrubs. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate. Flaweirs in lax 

 racemes. Calyx-tube turbinate ; teeth 5, distinct, setaceous from a deltoid base. 

 Corolla marcescent, much exserted ; standard obovate ; wings small, much 

 shorter ; keel obtuse, as long as the standard. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers 

 imiform. Ovary stalked, 2^-ovulate; style long, filiform, inflexed, stigma 

 minute, capitate. Pod of 1-4 flattened indehiscent densely muricated joints. — 

 DisiKlB. Species 3-4, reaching Egypt and Abyssinia. 



1. T. nummularia, DC. Prodr. ii. 339 ; Mem. Leg. vi. t. 52 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, ii. 508. Hedyaarum nummularifolium, DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 

 102. H. sparteum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 166, t. 51, flg. 2 ? T. spartea, DC. loo. cit. ? 

 Onobrychis diffusa, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. t. 49. T. cuneifolia. Am. in 

 Wight Ic. t. 1055 ; Dak. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 67. T. gonoclada and T. ephedro- 

 ides, Javl). Sr Spaeh. HI. t. 61 and 62. Hedysarum Gibsoni, &rah. Cat. BonA. 

 PI. 49. 



Plains of Scinde and the Punjab. — Disteeb. Afghanistan, Orient. 



A copiously-branched undershrub, 1-2 ft. high, with slender finely canescent 

 terete branches. Leaves shortly petioled, usually 3-foliolate ; leaflets very variable in 

 size, |-1 in. long, obovate-oblong or nearly round, thick, pale green, thinly canescent 

 beneath, the side ones not opposite ; stipules free, minute, lanceolate, scariose. Racemes 

 few- or many-flowered, usually exceeding the leaves. Calyx ^^ in., thinly silky. 

 Corolla red, glabrous, f-^ in. Joints of pod 1-4, roundish. 



29. EBENUS, Linn. 



VillouB herbs or undershrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets entire, exsti- 

 pellate ; petiole often spinose. Flowers red, in dense peduncled axillary spikes. 

 Calyx-teeth 5, subequal, setaceous, plumose, exceeding the tube. Corolla much 

 shorter than the calyx ; standard broad ; keel obtuse, as long as standard ; wings 

 short. Stamens monadelphous, the upper free at the base ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-ovulate ; style filiform, incurved, stigma capitate. Pod flat, 

 oblong, incliided in the calyx-tube, membranous, indehiscent. — Disteib. Species 

 8, Oriental and Mediterranean. 



1. E. stellata, Boiss. Diag. ii. 100 ; Fl. Orient, ii. 657. E. tragacan- 



