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minal, capitate or oblique, or more rarely dorsal. Legume (usually 
included by marcescent perianth) oblong subterete or obovate com- 
pressed, usually membranous, indehiscent. Seeds 1 or few, exaril- 
late—Herbs; leaves digitate, 3- or more rarely 5-7-foliolate, more 
rarely pinnate; leaflets marked by lines at margin, usually denti- 
culate; stipules adnate to petiole; flowers capitate or spicate, more 
rarely subumbellate or solitary; inflorescences sometimes 1-lateral, 
either axillary or leaf-opposed or (the terminal bud being un- 
developed) spuriously terminal; bracts variable or 0, persistent or 
deciduous, lower ones sometimes connate into an involucre (Zempe- 
rate and sub-tropical regions of Northern Hemisphere, tropical South 
America, tropical Africa). See p. 209. 
115. Medicago L.’—Receptacle somewhat concave; calyx gamo- 
sepalous, nearly equally 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Petals free; standard 
oblong or obovate, narrowed and contracted at base ; wings obliquely 
oblong; keel longer or oftener shorter than wings, obtuse. Stamen 
10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; filaments not dilated, lower ones connate into a 
broad sheath cleft above; anthers uniform. Germen sessile or shortly 
stipitate, 1- or oftener oo-ovulate; style more or less dilated; apex 
subulate glabrous ; stigma subcapitate oblique. Legume more or 
less spirally falcate, or oftener spirally arched and reticulated, un- 
armed or spinous, often prickly at back, scarcely or not dehiscent, 
]l— o-seeded. Seeds exarillate—Shrubs or oftener herbs; leaves 
pinnate 3-foliolate; leaflets often denticulate; stipules adnate to 
petiole ; flowers’ solitary or few, or oftener numerous in cylindrical 
or short capitate, axillary or subaxillary racemes; bracts small or 0; 
bractlets 0 (Worthern and temperate regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, 
and America’). 
116. Melilotus T.‘—Calyx 5-toothed; teeth nearly equal to each 
1 Gen. n. 1214.—J., Gen. 356.—GmRtN., 
Fruct., ii. 348, t. 155.—Srr., in DC., Prodr,, ii. 
171.—Envu., Gen., n. 6507.—B. H., Gen., 487, 
un, 72,.—Medica T., Inst., 410, t. 231.— ? Dip- 
loprion Vis., Fl. Lib., 48, t. 19, fig. 2. 
2 Small; violet or yellowish. 
3 Species about 40. Jacg., Hort. Vindab., i. 
t. 89; Icon. Rar., t. 156.—Cav., Icon, ii. t. 
130.—Sistu., Fl. Grec., t. 767, 769, 770.— 
Vis., FY. Dalmat., t. 43.—Morts, Fl. Sard., t. 
35~53.—DC., Icon, Pl. Gall. Rur., t. 27, 28.— 
VOL. If. 
Wess, Phyt. Canar., t. 56.—Coss., Fl. Alger, 
t. 88, 89.—Grun, & Govr., Fl. de Fr.,i.382.— 
Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 50.—Bot. 
Mag., t. 909.—Watr., Rep., i. 635; ii, 487; 
Ann.,, i. 224; ii. 348; iv. 473. 
4 Inst., 406, t. 229.—J., Gen., 356.—GERTN., 
Fruct., ii. 333 (part.), t. 153 (part.).—LaME., 
Dict., iv. 61; Suppl. iii, 646; Z2., t. 613.— 
Ser., in DC., Prodr., ii. 186.—ENpDu., Gen., Ne 
6510.—B. H., Gen., 487, n. 73. 
