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92. Gueldenstedtia Fiscu.—Calyx unequally 5-toothed; 2 
superior teeth broader. Standard suborbicular or obovate, erect 
patent ; wings obovate oblong; keel short obtuse. Stamens 10, 9- 
connate; axillary stamen free; anthers uniform. Germen sessile 
o-ovulate; style short inflexed beardless; stigma broad lateral. 
Legume linear or ovoid, terete turgid; placentary suture depressed 
intruded; 2-valved. Seeds reniform, smooth or scrobiculate.— 
Perennial herbs, almost stemless or decumbent ; leaves imparipinnate 
or |-foliolate ; stipules free or adnate to petiole ; flowers’ solitary or 
oftener on axillary, shortly racemose, subumbellate scapes (Russian 
Asia, Himalayas’). 
93. Glycyrrhiza T.‘—Receptacle shortly obconical, glandular 
within ; calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, nearly equal or 2 superior 
shorter and connate to a variable height. Petals all free ; standard 
ovate or oblong, usually narrow, contracted at base, erect; wings 
obliquely oblong, acute or obtuse ; keel shorter than wings. Stamens 
10, 2-adelphous ; 9 connate into an often short sheath cleft above ; 
1 free or adnate on one side to sheath; 5 alternate anthers smaller ; 
cells opening rather deeply on dehiscence. Germen sessile 1—- 
ovulate ; style filiform or rather thick, curved at apex; apex capitate 
stigmatiferous. Legume of variable form, sometimes short linear, 
sometimes ovate or oblong; straight or more or less arched, turgid or 
compressed, smooth or oftener glandular or muricated, continuous 
within, indehiscent or rather late becoming 2-valved. Seeds ovate 
globose, or reniform, exarillate.——Perennial herbs, glabrous or oftener 
glandular ; root often sweet ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets o- 
or more rarely few (8, 5°), entire or with small glandular teeth ; 
stipels 0 or minute setaceous ; stipules narrowed at apex, membranous 
caducous ; flowers’ in axillary sessile or pedunculate spikes or ra- 
Grec., t. 737.—BakER, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., 
ii. 188.—Watp., Ann., ii. 397. 
1 ¥iscon., ex DC., Prodr., ii. 307.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 6570.—B. H. Gen., 506, n. 182. 
2 «Violet (or lemon-coluured ?)” 
3 Species about 7. Fiscu., in Mém. Soc. 
Hist. Nat. Mose., vi. 179, t. 19.—Patas, As- 
trag., t. 66 (Astragalus).—DC., Astrag., t. 49 
(Astragalus).—DrEtEss., Icon. Sel., iii. 41, t. 
73.—WatLp., Rep., i. 684. 
4 Inst., 389, t. 210.—L., Ges, n. 882.— 
GzRTN., Fruct., ii. 319, t. 148.—Lamx., Diet. 
vi. 88; Suppl. iv. 656; il. t. 625.— DC., 
Prodr., ii. 247.—Enp1., Gen., n. 6532.—B. H., 
Gen., 508, n. 186.—Liquiritia Mancu, Meth., 
152.—PeErs., Syn., ii. 3138.— Clidanthera R. Br., 
in App. Sturt. Exp.,10.—Meristotrophis F1scu. 
& Mry., Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop., ix. 95.— G@ly- 
cyrrhizopsis Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or., sér. 2, v.82. 
5 In section Meristotrophis, wherein the ger- 
men is 2-ovulate and the fruit 1-seeded. ; 
§ White, yellowish, or oftener blue or violet. 
