XXV. LEGUMINA‘CEZ!: ADENOCA’/RPUS. 227 
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ADENOCA/RPUS Dec. Tue Apenocarpus. Lin. Syst. Monadélphia 
Decandria. 
Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr. Supp., 549.; Lég. Mém., 6.; Prod., 2. p. 158.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 157. 
Derivation. From adén,a gland, and karpos, fruit; in reference to the legumes being beset with 
pedicellate glands. 
Gen. Char, Calyx obconical, usually beset with glands, bilabiate; upper lip bi- 
partite, lower one longer and trifid. Carina obtuse, enclosing the.stamens and 
pistils. Stamens monadelphous. Legume oblong, compressed. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves compound, trifoliolate, alternate, stipulate, deciduous. Flowers 
yellow in all the species. — Shrubs, straggling, of short duration, somewhat 
evergreen from the colour of their young shoots; natives chiefly of Europe. 
Branches divergent; leaves trifoliclate, with petiolar stipules, and folded 
leaflets, and usually grouped; flowers upon bracteolate pedicels, and disposed 
in terminal racemes. Culture as in Cytisus, from which 
genus most of the species have been separated. 
a 1. A. mispa’nicus Dec. The Spanish Adenocarpus. 
Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr. Suppl., 549.; Lég. Mém., 6.; Prod., 2. 
p. 158. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 158. 
Synonymes. C¥tisus hispanicus Lam. Dict, 2. p. 248.; C. anagfrius 
L'Hérit. Stirp. 184., N. Du Ham. 5. p. 149. 
Engraving. Our fig. 368. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Calyx glandulose and villose; lower 
lip with three equal segments, that are barely longer 
than the upper lip. Branchlets hairy. Flowers 
grouped. Standard rather glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A 
hairy shrub. Spain and Portugal, in shady and moist 
places. Height 2 ft. to 4ft. Introduced in 1816. 
Flowers yellow; June and July. Legume dark brown, 
or black; ripe in October. 368. A. hisp&nteus. 
% 2, A. Boissie‘rr Webb. Boissier’s Aden>carpus. 
Identification. “Webb's Iter Hisp., p. 52. ; Otia Hispan., p. 4. 
Synonymes. A. decorticans Boiss. Not. sur [ Abies Pinsapo, p. 9.; Raca vieja, Span. 
Engravings. Otia Hispaaica, t. 4.; and our jig. 369. 
Spec. Char., §c. Arborescent. Bark scaly. Branches purplish, ash-coloured, 
clothed with soft hairy pubescence, and with numerous leaves. Petioles 
elongate, terete. Leaves with ad- 
pressed pubescence. Leaflets linear, 
with revolute margins, somewhat cb- 
tuse, Calyx villous, the lower lip 
somewhat longer than the upper. 
Vexillum pubescent at the apex and 
middle. Legumes elongate, obtuse, 
whitish, with purple glands. Seed 
greenish black. (Webb, Otia Hispan.) 
A large deciduous shrub. Spain, in 
warm valleys of the mountains of 
Granada, 4500 ft. to 5000 ft. above 
the sea. Height 15 ft. to 20 ft. In- 
troduced ?. Flowers reddish yellow, 
fragrant; June and July. Legume 
whitish, covered with numerous pur- 
- ple glands ; ripe in August. 
349. adenecdrpus Balssi¢n. 
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