304 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
both ends, finally separating. Seeds ovate ; hilum lateral.—A shrub ; 
leaves alternate simple ;’ petiole short, articulated at base; stipules 
short triangular persistent ; flowers in axillary racemes, each flower 
solitary in axil of a short bract, shortly pedicellate; bractlets 0’ 
(Mascarene Islands’). 
145. Coronilla L.—Receptacle cupuliform, glandular within. Calyx 
gamosepalous ; teeth 5, nearly equal or 2 superior shorter or con- 
nate to a greater height. Petals rather long unguiculate; standard 
suborbiculate reflexed ; claw furnished with a simple or double rather 
projecting appendage within and slightly above base ; wings obliquely 
obovate or oblong, claws thin ; keel curved, beaked. Stamens 10, 2- 
adelphous, 9 connate into a sheath cleft above; vexillary stamen 
free ; filaments free at apex, all or 5 alternate dilated above ; anthers 
nearly or quite uniform. Germen sessile «—ovulate; style inflexed 
subulate glabrous; stigma minute capitate. Legume terete, 4-gonous, 
or slightly compressed, straight or arched; segments oblong or 
elongated, almost without veins. Seeds transverse oblong exarillate. 
—Shrubs or herbs, glabrous or silky ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 
oo, or more rarely 8, quite entire; stipules of variable form, more 
or less adnate to petiole; flowers’ in o- or few-flowered long-pedun- 
culate axillary umbels; bracts small. (Europe, western Asia, northern 
regions and western Islands of Africa’). 
146. Ornithopus L.’—Calyx broadly tubular or subcampanulate ; 
lobes 5, long, nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a greater height. 
Petals almost those of Coronilla, shorter ; keel nearly straight obtuse, 
shorter than wings or very short. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); 
1 On some sterile twigs the leaves become 
Journ. Bot., i. 121, t. 4.—Ornithopodiwm Cav., 
very elongated linear or subacicular. 
Icon. Rar., t. 37, t. 41.—Astrolobium DC., 
2 This genus is indeed much more nearly 
allied to Indigofera than to the Hedysaree, but 
differs by its leaves, which are really simple (not 
compound 1-foliolate; petiole not articulate at 
apex), and by its legume, with “ finally separat- 
ing segments.” It differs from Indigofera in the 
same way as Zischynomene differs from Sesbania, 
3 Species 1. B. ammoxylon DC., loc. cit.— 
Mullera verrucosa Herb. Par. (ex DC., nec 
PERrs.). 
4 Gen. n. 883 (part.).—J., Gen. 361.— 
Gertn,, Fruct., t. 155.—DC., Prodr., ii. 309.— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 6585.—B. H., Gen. 509, n. 
140.—Emerus T., Inst., 650, t. 418.—Dzsvx., 
Prodr., ii. 311 (part.). 
5 Yellow, purplish, or variegated or spotted 
with white. 
® Species about 20. Jacq., Hort. Vindob., t. 
25; Fl. Austr., t. 95, 271.—Retcus., Pl. Crit., 
t. 31-33 —Sisru., Fl. Grec., t. 710, 711, 713, 
715.—Borss., Voy., t. 54.—Bot. Reg., t. 820 
(822).— Bot. Mag., t. 18, 185, 258, 445, 907, 
2179, 2646.—Watp., Rep., i. 724; ii. 887; v. 
519; Ann., ii. 406. 
7 Gen., 884.—Drsvx., Journ. Bot., i. 121, t. 
5.—DC., Prodr., ii. 311.—EnD1., Gen., n. 6587. 
—B. H., Gen., 509, n. 189.— Ornithopodiun T., 
Inst., 400, t. 224.— Mancu, Meth, 121. 
