292 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
peduncle often aristate above pedicel; racemes small, more rarely 
(the floral leaves being reduced to bracts) crowded into a spiciform 
terminal raceme (Europe, western Asia, northern Africa’). 
VI. HEDYSAREA. 
120. Hedysarum T.— Receptacle small concave, glandular within. 
Calyx gamosepalous, inserted in receptacle, nearly equally 5-toothed 
or 5-lobed. Petals free; standard obovate or obcordate, scarcely 
unguiculate; wings obliquely oblong, l-auriculate, shorter than 
standard or very short; claws short slender; keel usually longer 
than wings, obtuse, arched or obliquely truncate dorsally at apex. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); filaments free at apex, inflexed with 
style; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile pauci- or c-ovulate ; 
style thin; apex stigmatiferous, not thickened. Legume plano- 
compressed, divided into closed indehiscent ]-seeded, suborbicu- 
lar or square, smooth or muricated, separating segments. Seeds 
reniform compressed exarillate——Perennial herbs or more rarely 
shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire, often 
sprinkled with pellucid dots; stipules 2, lateral ; flowers’ in axillary 
pedunculate racemes; bracts variable; bractlets 2, laterally mserted 
below calyx, setaceous (Zemperate regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, 
and North America). See p. 212. 
121? Taverniera DC.\W—Flowers of Hedysarum ; vexillary stamen 
connate at middle with remainder or finally free. Germen stipitate ; 
ovules 1-3; style slender inflexed ; apex minutely stigmatiferous. 
Legume plano-compressed (of Hedysarum); segments 1-3, 1-seeded, 
separating—Undershrubs, glabrous or oftener hoary; branches 
rigid ; leaves few, pinnate 1-3-foliolate; stipules scarious; flowers’ 
few, in axillary pedunculate racemes; bracts minute or caducous ; 
bractlets 2, small, persistent below flower® (Zhe Hast, India‘). 
1 Species about 60.—Cav., Icon., t. 152-154, 2450.—Wate., Rep., i. 624; ii. 839; v. 460; 
159, 192.—Jacq., Hort. Vindob., t. 93; Fil. 
Austr, t. 240.—VeEnt., Jard. Cels., t. 32.— 
Brot., Phyt. Lusit., t. 56-58.— Dzsr., Fl, 
Atlant., t. 184-193.—K., Fl. Berol., ii. 219.— 
Srata., Fl. Gree., t. 675-680.—Moris, Fl. 
Sard., t. 83, 83 bis.—WerBB, Phyt. Canar., t. 
51-55. — Borss., .Voy., t. 43-47.—Jaus. & 
Spacu, Ill. Plant. Or., i. t. 96, 154, 155.— 
Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 48.—Bot. 
Reg., t. 1447.—Bot. Mag., t. 317, 329, 335, 
Ann., i, 217; iv. 462. 
2 Purple, white, or yellow. 
3 Mém. Légum., 339, t. 52; Prodr., ii. 389.— 
Evypt., Gen., n. 6617.—B. H., Gen., 511, n. 145. 
4 Pink or white; petals persistent, becoming 
scarious, 
5 This genus, differs from Hedysarwm in 
habit alone, and ought hardly to be retained. 
. § Species 4 or 5. Bura., FU. Ind., t. 51, fig. 
2 (Hedysarwm)—WieHt, Icon, t. 1055.— 
