114 Leguminosa—Priptanthus. 
suture, exalbuminous. As thus characterised this includes 
only one sub-order; but altogether the order includes some 
400 genera and 6,500 species. 
Tran L—PODALYRIEA. 
Shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves simple or digitate. Stamens 
10, free. . 
1. PIPTANTHUS. 
Standard orbicular, slightly exceeding the wings, the sides 
reflexed; wings oblong-obvate ; keel petals as long or longer than 
the wings, scarcely ineurved, connate at the back. Pod stalked 
and many-seeded; seeds minutely strophiolate. One shrubby 
species, a native of the Himalayas. From qimto, to fall, and 
dvdos, a flower, in allusion to all parts of the flower dropping 
together. 
1. P. Nepalénsis. Evergreen Laburnum.— A handsome 
evergreen shrub requiring a sheltered situation. Leaves alter- 
nate, petiolate, digitately trifoliolate ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, 
slichtly hairy; stipules united in one, opposite the leaves. 
Flowers large, yellow, in terminal bracteate racemes. 
2. THERMOPSIS. 
Calyx shortly turbinate at the base. Petals nearly equal. 
Pod sessile or shortly stalked, linear or oblong, inflated, valves 
slightly coriaceous. Herbs with creeping rhizomes. Leaves 
digitately trifoliolate ; stipules foliaceous, free. About twelve 
species are described, all inhabiting the north temperate zone. 
The name is compounded from the Greek @gpyos, alupine, and 
éyus, appearance or resemblance. 
1. Th. fabacea.—A pretty erect. herbaceous summer-flowering 
plant somewhat woody at the base, about 2 feet high. Leaflets 
ovate-lanceolate, hairy beneath. Flowers yellow, about an 
inch across, in terminal loose racemes. Siberia. 
3. BAPTISIA. 
Calyx obtuse or scarcely turbinate at the base. Petals 
almost equal, the carinal connate at the back. Pod stalked, 
ovoid or globose, inflated, often coriaceous. Leaves digitately 
trifoliolate, or simple and scssile, or perfoliate. A North 
American genus of about fourteen specics of uo particular 
interest, and rarely seen in cultivation. Name from Sarto, 
to dye, some species being used for this purpose. 
