290 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
other and to the tube. Petals free from androceum, deciduous ; 
standard obovate or oblong, subsessile ; wings oblong; keel about 
equal to or shorter than wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, 9 connate, 
vexillary stamen free or connate at middle with remainder ; filaments 
not dilated; anthers uniform. Germen sessile or stipitate, pauci- or 
co-ovulate ; style filiform, curved above; stigma terminal, capitate or 
oblique. Legume unevenly globose or ovoid, surrounded by long- 
persistent calyx, straight thick striated, indehiscent or rather late 
becoming 2-valved. Seeds solitary or few, exarillate, often sparingly 
albuminous.—Annual or biennial herbs; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; 
leaflets articulated, often denticulate; stipules lateral, adnate to 
petiole; flowers! bracteate, in axillary or subaxillary racemes ; 
bractlets 0 (Worthern temperate regions of Old World’). 
117. Trigonella L.’—Receptacle obconical to a variable height, 
glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous tubular; teeth or lobes 
nearly equal. Petals free from androceum; standard sessile or 
shortly and broadly unguiculate; wings unevenly oblong, shorter 
than standard ; keel shorter than wings or very short, obtuse. Sta- 
mens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1), or vexillary stamen connate at middle 
with remainder; filaments free at apex, more or less dilated below 
uniform anthers. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules a, 2- 
seriate; style rather thick or filiform; stigma dilated, terminal 
or subterminal. Legume either thick, long-beaked or else linear, 
compressed or terete or flat and broad; straight, arched, or falcate, 
indehiscent or 1—2-valved, continuous within. Seeds exarillate.-— 
Herbs ;* leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; leaflets often denticulate, arti- 
culated at base; stipules adnate to petiole; flowers’ solitary, capi- 
tate, subumbellate, or shortly and densely racemose, sessile or 
pedunculate ; bracts small or inconspicuous; bractlets 0 (Europe, 
Asia, northern Africa, Australia’). 
1 White, yellow, or bluish; small, 
2 Species about 10. Srera., Fl. Gree., t. 
741-743.—Mornis, Fl. Sard., t. 56-59.—Coss., 
Fil, Alger., t. 90.—Gren. & GopR., Fl. de Fr., 
i, 899.— Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 52.— 
Watp., Rep., i. 638; Ann., i. 225; ii, 348. 
3 Gen, n. 898.—J., Gen. 356.—Gzrtn., 
Fruct., ii. 332, t. 152.—SEr., in DC., Prodr,, ii. 
181.—EnDt., Gen., n. 6508.—B. H., Gen., 486, 
u. 71.—Pocockia SER., in DC., Prodr., ii, 185.— 
ENDL, Gen. n. 6509.—_Botryolotus Jaun. & 
Spacu, Ill. Plant. Orient., i. 124, t. 638.—Fal- 
catula Bror., Phyt. Lusit., 160, t. 65.—Apo- 
ranthus Bromp., Fl. Vect., 117. 
4 Often fetid. 
5 White, yellow, or blue. 
§ Species about 50. Srstu., Fl. Gree, t. 
761-766.—Moris, Fl. Sard. t. 54, 55.— 
Trauttrv., Im Fl. Russ., t. 20.—JACQUEM., 
Voy., Bot., t. 41, 42—DC., Pl. Gall. Rar., t. 
