LEGUMINOS2-PAPILIONAOE 2. 287 
a closed tube, or 9 connate; vexillary stamen often shorter and 
thinner, partly, and ultimately after anthesis entirely, free; all or 5 
filaments dilated at apex; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile or 
oftener stipitate, 2-c-ovulate; style glabrous; stigma terminal. 
Legume ovoid or shortly linear, straight, arched, or falcate, included 
by or scarcely projecting beyond persistent more or less inflated 
calyx, turgid, indehiscent or late becoming 2-valved, 1-—0-seeded, 
continuous or transversely septate within.’ Seeds exarillate.— 
Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs; leaves pinnate or 1-foliolate ; 
stipules minute or 0; flowers’ unevenly capitate or shortly race- 
mose, more rarely solitary; peduncles axillary or 2, 3 crowded 
pseudo-terminal at extremities of twigs; bracts and _ bractlet 
setaceous small or 0 (Hurope, northern Africa, western Asia’). 
111, Securigera DC.‘—Receptacle very short, glandular within. 
Calyx short; lobes nearly equal; 2 superior often shorter, lateral 
thicker connate to a greater height. Petals free from androceum ; 
standard suborbicular, usually subsessile; wings obliquely oblong; 
keel curved, shortly beaked. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; fila- 
ments more or less dilated above; anthers uniform or oppositi- 
petalous a little shorter. Germen sessile o-ovulate ; style curved 
glabrous; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear falcate 
plano-compressed acuminate, indehiscent or late becoming 2-valved ; 
endocarp finally separable ; margins broadly thickened, furrowed at 
suture. Seeds flattened square.—Diffuse herbs, glabrous; leaves 
alternate imparipinnate; leaflets quite entire, exstipellate ; stipules 
membranous small; flowers’ umbellate at extremities of long axil- 
lary peduncles, nutant ; bracts small reflexed; bractlets 0 (Southern 
Europe, northern Africa, western Asia’). 
1 The character of the legume varies in the 
5 sections as follows: 1. Doryenopsis, Legume 
straight ovoid 1-2-seeded indehiscent.—2. Phys- 
anthyllis. Straight membranous, 1-seeded or 
constricted between the 2 seeds.—3. Vulneraria. 
Straight or slightly faleate, continuous within, 
1-8-seeded.— 4, Aspalathoides. Straight or sub- 
falcate, hard, scarcely dehiscent, 1-seeded or 
subseptate between the 2 seeds.—5. Cornicina. 
Much curved or arched, more rarely moniliform, 
hard. 
2 Whitish, yellow, or reddish-purple. 
3 Species about 20. Jacq, Fl. Austr, t. 
334.—Cay., Icon., t. 39, 40, 150.—S1stu., Fl, 
Grec., t. 682, 683.—Vis., Fl. Dalmat., t. 42.— 
Boiss., Voy., t. 48-50, 162, 163—Drzsr., FT. 
Atlant., t. 195.—Baxer, in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr., 
ii. 60.— Bot. Mag., t. 1927, 2576, 3284.— WaLp., 
_ Rep., i. 634; ii, 846; Ann., i. 224; iv. 473. 
4 Fl. de Fr., iv. 609; Prodr., ii. 313.—B. H., 
Gen., 489, n. '78.—Securidaca T., Inst., 399, t. 
224.—GzeEty., Fruct., ii. 887, t. 153.—LaMk., 
Iil., t. 629 (nec Dict., vii. 51, nec L.).— Bona- 
veria Scopv., Introd., 1420.—Necx., Hlem., n. 
1320.—ENDL., Gen., n, 6589. 
5 White or yellow. 
5 Species 2. Dzsvx., Journ. Bot., i. 60, t. 4, 
fig. 7.—SrtH., Fl. Grec., t. 712. 
