LEGUMINOS #!-PAPILIONACEZ. 285° 
of leaf, lateral stipuliform ; stipules minute or 0; flowers on axillary 
peduncles, solitary or oftener spuriously umbellate ; bract 1 below 
flower, usually 3-foliolate; other bracts small or 0; bractlets 0 
(All temperate and mountainous regen: 
107. Cytisopsis Jaus. & SPACH. '—Calyx long tubular, sub-2- 
labiate; 2 superior lobes longer, more obtuse, and connate to a 
ereater height. Petals on very long linear claws, more or less 
adnate to staminal tube; standard ovate; wings and keel-petals 
nearly similar, slightly incurved, obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 
(9-1); filaments finally free slender, dilated below apex; anthers 
small uniform. Germen shortly stipitate, subexcentric ; ovules o ; 
style slender, very long, curved and dilated above ; summit minutely 
dilated, stigmatiferous. Legume linear straight subterete, longer 
than persistent calyx, thinly septate within between seeds, 2-valved; 
valves coriaceous, rather thick.. Seeds subglobose; funicle short 
exarillate—A low diffuse shrub, silky pubescent; leaves sessile 
digitate 5—7-foliolate exstipulate ; flowers’ 1-2 in each axil; pedicel 
furnished at middle with 2 ovate rigid concave opposite bractlets 
(Syria’). 
108. Dorycnium T.‘—Flowers of Lotus ; calyx-lobes longer than 
tube, nearly equal or lower lobes longer. Petals variable ; standard 
oval-oblong or subspathulate, contracted into a short claw or 
subsessile; wings oblong; keel shorter than wings, rather obtuse. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1; alternipetalous or all filaments 
rather dilated at apex; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile, 2- x, 
ovulate; style curved; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume 
oblong, shortly linear (Bonjeania’) or terete or turgid, 1- «-seeded 
subseptate or pulpy within between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds ex- 
arillate, globose or compressed; embryo curved (green); radicle 
inflexed accumbent; albumen 0 or thin membranous.—Herbs or 
undershrubs, glabrous or villous; leaves alternate digitate, usually 
d-foliolate ; 2 inferior leaflets more or less remote from remainder ; 
1 Til. Plant. Orient., i. 154, t. 84.—B, H., 416.—Serr., in DC., Prodr., ii. 208.—ENDL., 
Gen., 489, u. 79. Gen., n. 6512.—B. H., Gen., 490, n. 80. 
2 Yellow. 5 Rercus., Fl. Germ. Excurs., 507 ; Pl. Crit., 
P : t. 1000 (part.)—Kocu, Synops., 177.—ENDL., 
Watp., Rep., v. 511. Gen., n. 6518. (Other characters of Dorycnium. 
4 Inst. 391, t. 211.—Vit., Dauph., iii. Germen pluriovulate.) 
