LEGUMINOSZ-PAPILIONACEA. 291 
118, Parochetus Ham.'—Calyx-lobes 4, 5, imbricated ; 2 superior 
connate to a considerable height or entirely. Petals free from 
staminal tube ; standard obovate, shortly unguiculate ; wings falcate- 
oblong; keel shorter than wings, inflexed. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 
phous (9-1). Germen sessile, surrounded at base by a rather 
prominent disk arched below, o-ovulate; style glabrous, inflexed 
above ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume linear, finally rather 
turgid, obliquely acute, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds funi- 
culate exarillate—A prostrate herb, rooting at nodes; leaves 
digitate 3-foliolate; stipules a little adnate to petiole or free ; 
flowers’ axillary pedunculate, solitary or in twos or threes ; bracts 
stipuliform ; bractlets 0 (Zropical Asia and Africa’). 
119. Ononis L.‘—Receptacle somewhat concave and oblique, 
glandular within. Calyx subovoid gamosepalous; lobes 5, equal or 
a little unequal, originally slightly imbricated in estivation, finally. 
remote. Petals shortly unguiculate: standard suborbicular or 
obovate; claw nearly absent; wings obovate-oblong ; keel curved,. 
beaked or more rarely obtuse. Stamens 10, all connate into a closed 
tube, or more rarely vexillary stamen free ; filaments finally free, all 
or 5 alternate dilated above; alternipetalous anthers versatile ; oppo- 
sitipetalous subbasifixed, a little longer; more rarely all uniform. 
Germen sessile or stipitate, pilose or bearded on both sides or 
ventrally above; style curved glabrous; stigma terminal, capitate 
or oblique; ovules 2—c, descending. Legume oblong or linear; 
turgid or terete, 2-valved, continuous within; or more rarely 
compressed torulose, spuriously septate between seeds. Seeds exaril- 
late.—Herbs or undershrubs, more rarely shrubs ; glabrous or villous, 
sometimes spinous, often viscous glandular ; leaves alternate, usually 
pinnate 3-foliolate; leaflets denticulate; stipules lateral, adnate to 
petiole ; flowers’ on axillary peduncles, solitary or 2-3 racemose ; 
29; Pl. Rar. Hort. Gen., t. 16.—REIcuB., Pl. 
Crit., t. 348, 344, 577, 578.—Boiss., Diagn. Pl. 
Or, ix. 11—Gren. & Gopr., Fl. de Fr., i. 
396.—BakER, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 49.— 
Watp., Rep., i. 636 ; ii. 847 ; Anmn., i, 225 ; ii. 344. 
1 Ex Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal., 240.—DC., 
Prodr., ii. 402.—Envu., Gen., n. 6519.—B. H., 
Gen., 485, n. 70.—Cosmiusa ALEF., in Bot. 
Zeit, (1866), 146. 
2? Blue or purplish, Lower flowers small or ape- 
talous, ripening their fruits on or under the ground. 
3 Species 1. Wiaut & Arn., Prodr.,i. 251.— 
Wieut, Icon, t. 483.—Royiz, Illustr. Pl. 
Himal., t. 35.—Brnn., Pl. Jav. Rar., t. 34.— 
BakER, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 48. 
4 Gen, n. 863.—J., Gen., 354.—GERTN., 
Fruct., ii. 348, t. 154.—DC., Prodr., ii. 159 
(part.).—EnpL., Gen., n. 6493.—B. H., Gen., 
485, n. 69.—Natric Mancu, Meth., 158.— 
Anonis Manco, loc. cit., 157. 
5 Pink or yellow. 
