202 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
a somewhat rounded linear pod, surmounted by a point formed by 
the persistent base of the style, and dehiscing into two thin 
obliquely-striate valves; it contains in its single cavity an indefinite 
Robinia Pseudacacia (Garden Acacia). 
Fie. 159. 
Floriferous branch (3). 
number of transverse oblong seeds with fleshy exalbuminous embryos. 
Galega consists of perennial herbs, glabrous or nearly so. Their 
alternate imparipinnate leaves have entire leaflets and unsymmetrical 
lateral stipules, often greatly developed. The flowers form terminal 
and axillary racemes, each flower axillary to an often persistent bract. 
The three species of this genus belong to the South of Europe and 
to Eastern Asia.’ 
The Galegee proper (or Tephrosiee) have the following points in 
common with the preceding genus. The flowers form racemes, 
terminal, leaf-opposed, or collected into terminal panicles.” More 
rarely the inflorescences occupy the axils of the upper leaves, or 
else the floral pedicels are all, or only the lower ones, paired or 
1 Siptu., Fl. Grec., t.726.—Swezt, Brit. Fr., i. 455.—Bot. Reg., t. 326.— Bot. Mag., t. 
Fl. Gard., t. 159, 244.—Grun. & Gopr., Fl.de 2192. 
