LEGUMINOS #-PAPILIONACE. 
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III. GALEGA SERIES. 
Galega’ (fig. 158) has irregular resupinate hermapnrodite flowers. 
The slightly dilated receptacle bears in due order a gamosepalous 
calyx, a papilionaceous corolla, a monadelphous diplostemonous an- 
droceum of subhypogynous insertion, and a unicarpellary gynzceum. 
The calyx divides above into five 
shallow teeth or lobes, valvate 
or subimbricate in the bud. 
The standard is obovate or ob- 
long with the midrib projecting 
along its back, and tapers into 
a short claw at the base; the 
shortly unguiculate wings are 
oblong, with the limb unsym- 
metrical, especially near the 
base, and are often slightly adhe- 
rent to the somewhat incurved 
obtuse keel. The staminal fila- 
ments form a complete tube 
below. In the five stamens 
superposed to the calyx-lobes 
the free part of the filament is 
longer ; but their anthers resem- 
ble those of the oppositipetalous 
stamens, though usually a little 
larger? The gynzceum con- 
sists of a sessile or subsessile 
ovary, containing an indefinite 
number of descending campy- 
lotropous ovules, and tapering 
Galega officinalis. 
Habit (3). 
above into an incurved glabrous 
subulate style, ending in a little stigmatiferous head. The fruit is 
17,, Inst., 398, t. 122.—Muz., Icon., t. 
187.—Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 322.—J., Gen., 
859.—Lamkx., Dict., ii. 595; TUL, t. 625.—DC., 
Prodr., ti. 248.— Spacu, Suit. d Buffon, i. 249.— 
ENDL., Gen., n.6533.—B. H., Gen., 496, n. 97.— 
Callotropis Don (G.), Gen, Syst., ii.228.— EDL, 
Gen. n. 6535 (nec R. BR,).— Accorombona 
ENDL., Gen., 1427. 
2 The pollen resembles that of Vicie@ in all 
Galegee hitherto examined (H. Mout, in Ann, 
Se. Nat., sér. 2, iii, 341), This form seems to 
be that of Papilionacee, so that in treating of 
the other series we shall abstain from referring 
to this point. 
