294 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
125? Corethrodendron Bastn.\—“ Calyx-teeth nearly equal, 2 
superior connivent. Standard broadly obovate, narrowed into a 
short claw; wings short; keel curved obtuse, a little shorter than 
standard. Vexillary stamen free; remainder connate; anthers 
uniform. Germen stipitate o-ovulate ; style filiform curved ; stigma 
small terminal. Legume linear subterete ; segments subovoid sepa- 
rating, indehiscent. Seeds reniform estrophiolate.——A broom-like 
shrub, thinly hoary; lower leaves imparipinnate; leaflets quite 
entire, exstipellate; petioles of upper leaves spinescent, without 
leaflets ; stipules connate into one oppositifolious, deciduous ; flowers 
(purple ?) in long-pedunculate axillary racemes; bracts small cadu- 
cous; bractlets very small (Dzungaria).” 
126. Onobrychis Gertn.2—Receptacle somewhat concave, or 
nearly flat at apex. Calyx gamosepalous; lobes subulate, equal or 
lowest lobe smaller ; 2 superior often separating widely one after the 
other; rather imbricated in estivation, finally quite free. Petals 
often very dissimilar; standard obovate or obcordate, narrowed at 
base, subsessile ; wings short or very short; keel obtuse or truncate, 
about equal to or longer than standard. Stamens 10, 9 lower ones 
connate into a tube; vexillary stamen free close to base, a little 
higher usually connate with remainder ; anthers uniform, usually fixed 
by middle of back; connective often ellipsoidal, glandular at back. 
Germen sessile or supported on a short cylindrical stalk; ovules 1, 
2; style filiform, suberect or inflexed; stigma minute terminal. 
‘Legume semi-orbicular or unevenly orbicular-circinate, compressed, 
not jointed, coriaceous, echinate or crested, or more rarely smooth, 
deeply wrinkled or reticulated, indehiscent, or more rarely 2-seeded. 
Seeds broadly reniform or oblong, exarillate. Herbs, unarmed 
undershrubs, or more rarely small spinous shrubs; leaves imparipin- 
nate, rarely 1-foliolate; leaflets entire exstipellate ; petioles rarely 
spinescent ; stipules scarious ; flowers’ in long-pedunculate axillary 
Ill. Plant. Orient., v. t. 401—A. Camelorum - 
Fiscu., Cat. Hort. Gor. (1812), 72.—A. Napaul- 
_ensium DC., l.e. cit., u. 83.—A. Turcorum Boiss., 
Diagn. Pl. Orient., ix. 113.—A. Grecorum 
. Borss., loc. cit., 114.—Hedysarum Alhagi L., 
Spec., 1051 (part.).—H. Pseudo-Alhagi Bor. & 
CuHavs.—Manna hebraica Don, loc. ci!.—M. 
caspica Don.—WU. nepaulensis Don.— Ononis 
spinosa HassELg. (nec L.).—Genisia Juasi 
Ham.—Agul Ravw., It., 94, icon. 
1 Monog. Hedysar., 46, t. 2, ex B. H., Gen., 
512, n. 48. 
® Inst., 390, t. 211.—Gzrvn., Fruct., ii. 318, 
t. 148.—DC., Prodr., ii. 344 (part.).—Enpt., 
Gen., u. 6619.—B. H., Gen. 511, n. 146.-— 
Eriocarpea BzErtor., Mise. Bot., ii. 20.— 
Sartoria Boiss., Diagn. Plant. Orient., ix. 
109. 
3 Whitish, pink, or purplish. 
