LEGUMINOS-PAPILIONACEA. 229 
GENERA. 
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I. VICIEA. 
1. Vicia T.—Flowers irregular resupinate ; receptacle concave, 
usually oblique, lined by a disk. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes or 
teeth 5, nearly equal; 2 highest shorter, or 1 lowest longer ; imbri- 
cated or subvalvate in estivation. Corolla papilionaceous ; standard 
obovate or oblong, emarginate; claw broad, short ; wings oblique 
usually oblong, adhering at middle to keel; keel shorter than wings, 
falcate. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); vexillary stamen free, or 
more or less connate with remainder ; other 9 connate into a sheath 
cleft above with oblique mouth; anthers uniform, introrse 2-celled, 
longitudinally rimose. Germen sessile or stipitate ; ovules 2 (Hrvum) 
or oftener oo, incompletely campylotropous, usually descending ; 
micropyle extrorse superior; style inflexed, filiform or slightly 
compressed above laterally or dorsally, apex dorsally bearded by a 
bunch of hairs, or pilose or pubescent all round, or more rarely 
beardless (Hrvwm); stigma terminal. Legume of variable form 
compressed, continuous within ; pericarp membranous, or more rarely 
thick subcarnose or coriaceous (faba), 2-valved. Seeds globose or 
compressed ; funicle dilated at hilum into an oblong or linear aril ; 
embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick ; radicle inflexed accumbent.—Low 
erect, or diffuse herbs, usually climbing by means of tendrils ; leaves 
terminating in a small recurved bristle, or a simple or branched 
tendril; leaflets oo or more rarely 1, 2-jugate, entire or dentate, 
exstipellate; stipules semisagittate; flowers solitary or in twos or 
threes at axils, or oftener in lateral (spurious?) racemes at axils of 
leaves; bracts usually small, very caducous; bractlets 0 (Zemperate 
regions of Northern hemisphere and of South America). See p. 190. 
2. Lens T.'— Receptacle shortly obconical, glandular within. 
Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, nearly equal, elongated valvate. 
Corolla and stamens of Vicia, Germen stipitate or subsessile, 2- 
) See p. 193. 
