LEGUMINOS@-PAPILIONACE Hi. 295 
racemes or spikes; bracts herbaceous or scarious; bractlets below 
calyx, often minute setaceous, more rarely nearly or quite absent 
(Europe, temperate Asia, northern Africa’). 
127. Ebenus L.’—Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, sloupatea 
subulate, nearly equal, plumose. Petals very unequal; standard 
obovate or obcordate, very shortly unguiculate ; wings short; keel 
about equal to standard, obliquely truncate at apex. Stamens 10, 
2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen afterwards connate 
with remainder; anthers uniform. Germen sessile short, 1- or 
more rarely 2-6-ovulate; style slender inflexed; apex minute 
stigmatiferous. Legume compressed, ovate or oblong, 1- or more 
rarely few-seeded (Zbenidium*).—Herbs, or unarmed undershrubs, or 
small spinescent shrubs (sterile petioles rigid sharp); leaves im- 
paripinnate, or subdigitate 3-foliolate; stipules connate into one 
oppositifolious ; flowers‘ crowded, in dense long-pedunculate axillary 
spikes ; bracts linear or lanceolate ; bractlets minute or 0 (Mediter- 
ranean, western Asta’). 
128. Aischynomene L.'—Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, nearly 
equal or connate into 2 lips ; upper lip 2-fid, 2-toothed, or entire ; lower 
nearly entire or 3-fid; estivation imbricated. Petals shortly un- 
guiculate; standard orbicular; wings about equal to standard, 
oblique; keel obovate, slightly curved or oftener much curved or 
beaked.’ Stamens 10; either 1-adelphous, sheath cleft above, or 
evenly 2-adelphous, sheath cleft on both sides; vexillary stamen 
rarely separate from remainder, anthers uniform. Germen stipitate ; 
ovules 2-0, style curved beardless; apex scarcely dilated or mi- 
nutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate; segments 2-0, 
flat, or thicker at middle and so convex, smooth or muricated- 
1 Species about 50. Jacq., Fl. Austr., t. 352 
(Hedysarum).— Dusz., Fl. Atlant., t. 201 
(Hedysarum).—Desvx., Journ. Bot., i. 125, t. 
6.—Sinrs., Fl. Graec., t. 722-726.—Grev. & 
Gonor., Fl. de Fr.,i.505.—FENZL., in T'chihateh. 
As, Min., Bot., t, 6—Bot. Reg. (1847), t. 37.— 
Watp., Rep., i. 746; ii. 894; Ann, i. 250; ii, 
414 (Sartoria), 416; iv. 545. 
2 Gen., n. 895.—Desvx., in dct. Soc. Hist. 
Nat. Par., i. 21, t. 3.—DC., Mém. Légum., t. 
53; Prodr., ii. 350.—ENDL., Gien., n. 6624.— 
B. F., Gen., 512, nu. 147. 
3 Jaus. & Spacu, in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, 
xix. 162; Il/. Plant. Orient., iii. 249. 
4 « Reddish.” 
5 Species about 8. Vaux, Symb., ii. t. 41 
(Hedysarum).—S131u., Fl. Grec., t. 739, 740,— 
Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. sér. 2, t. 260.—Javus. 
& Spacu, op. cit., iii. t. 250-255.—Bot. Mag., 
t. 1092.—Watp., Rep., ii. 897. 
6 Gen. n. 888.—J., Gen., 362.—GERTIN., 
Fruct., ii. t. 155.—DC., Prodr., ii. 320.— 
Desvx., Journ. Bot., i. 124, t. 6.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 6605.—B. H., Gen., 515, n. 159. 
7 Shorter in Rueppelia Ricw. (A.), Fl. Abyss. 
Tent., i. 203, t. 37, which is a species ot Aschy- 
nomen. 
