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scending campylotropous ovules, whose micropyles look upwards 
and outwards.’ The fruit is a pod, elongated and subcylindrical or 
slightly compressed, thick and at first fleshy, finally coriaceous,” and 
dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts into two valves, freeing from its 
single cavity a variable number of descending campylotropous seeds. 
Hach of these, attached by a broad hilum, contains within its thick 
coats a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, with thick cotyledons and an 
inflexed accumbent radicle. The Bean is a herbaceous annual, with 
alternate pinnate leaves, whose leaflets, variable in number (from one 
to three pairs), are unsymmetrical and entire, while the extremity 
of the rachis aborts and is reduced to a narrow tongue. The two 
lateral stipules are membranous and unsymmetrical,’ and the flowers 
are united, few together, in short axillary racemes.* 
The other species of the genus Vicia often differ from this in 
habit, for their stem is rarely erect, more frequently creeping along 
the ground, and still oftener climbing and hooking on to neigh- 
bouring bodies by the civrfz or tendrils borne on the leaves. These 
tendrils represent the midrib of the terminal leaflet, with (if ramified) 
those of the last lateral leaflets. The flowers are often collected into 
racemes,’ or more rarely one, two, or three together on a level with 
the axils of the leaves.’ Each flower is accompanied by a very 
caducous bract, but has no lateral bractlets. Some two hundred 
species’ of this genus have been described, natives of the temperate 
regions of the whole northern hemisphere and of South America.’ 
The Lentils’ (Fr., Lentilles) come very near Vicia, from which 
perhaps they should not be generically separated; their style is 
1 They have two coats. 
2 The walls are not so thick or so fleshy, or 
coriaceous, in any of the remaining species of 
Vicia. 
3 In V. Faba they bear a dark-purple thick 
glandular spot. 
4 Or rather pseudo-racemes; the true ar- 
rangement of the flowers is not yet well known. 
5 In many of the species it will be seen that 
these so-called racemes have flowers on only one 
side of the chief axis of the inflorescence, the 
other side remaining bare. 
6 But not in the very axils of the leaves ; for 
the study of the development shows that the 
inflorescence is not really axillary here any more 
than in the Bean. 
7 But this number should probably be reduced 
by half. ; 
8 Jacq. Hort. Vindob., t. 146, 147; Fl. 
VOL, II. 
Austr., t. 34, 229, 364.—W., Spec., iii. 1093.— 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spee. t. 581-583.— 
Lrpes., Fl. Ross. Icon., t. 50, 108, 366, 368, 
481.—Vrnt., Jard. Cels., t. 84.—Dzs¥., Fl. 
Atlant., t. 197, 198.—Bror., Phyt. Lusit., t. 
52.—Siptu., Fl. Grec., t. 699-702.—Moris, 
Fl. Sard., t. 69-71.—DC., Ic. Pl. Gall, Rar. 
33.—WeEBB, Phyt. Canar., t. 65, B, C.—Jaus. 
& Spacu, Ill. Pl. Orient., t. 41.—Botss., Voy., 
t. 57.—Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., ser. 2,t. 2'74.— 
Gren. & Govr., Fl. de Fr.,i. 458-475.—BEntTu., 
in Mart. Fl, Bras. Papil., 107, t. 29.— Bot. 
Reg., t. 871.—Bot. Mag., t. 2098, 2141, 2206, 
2946.—Watp., Rep., i. 718; ii, 885; Ann, i. 
242; ii. 398; iv. 528.—Baxer, in Oliv., Fl. 
Trop. Afr., ii. 172. 
9 Lens T., Inst., 390, t. 210.—Mancu, Meth, 
131.—Grey. & Gopr., Fl. de Fr, i. 476.— 
B. H., Gen., 525, n. 185. 
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