LEGUMINOSZ!-PAPILIONACEZE. 305 
5 alternate filaments dilated above; anthers uniform. Germen 
sessile; ovules o; style inflexed; apex capitate stigmatiferous. 
Legume linear, compressed or subterete, sometimes slender (Arthro- 
lobium'), arched or more rarely straight; segments oblong ovate or 
globose, separated by very narrow joints (Antopetitia’). Seeds ovate 
subglobose or transversely oblong.—Herbs, villous or more rarely 
glabrous; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets o, exstipellate; stipules 
narrow or membranous ; flowers small, in axillary long-pedunculate 
pseudo-capitula or umbels; floral leaves pinnate, or inflorescence more 
rarely leafless (Arthrolobium) ; bracts and bractlets minute or 0 (Europe, 
western Asia, northern regions and western islands of Africa, South 
America). 
147, Hammatolobium Ferwnzz.'—Flowers nearly of Ornithopus, 
larger; keel rather acute. Legume linear; segments plano-com- 
pressed or convex.—Perennial herbs, silky villous; stem®, short 
woody ; leaves usually 5-foliolate ; either 2 inferior leaflets close to 
stem (petiole short) and stipuliform ; or all leaflets subdigitate, and 
(petiole nearly evanescent) almost sessile; stipules minute, flowers® 
few, usually 2, on axillary peduncles; floral bract 2-foliolate (Western 
Asia, northern Africa’). 
148. Scorpiurus L.’—Receptacle shortly concave, thick glandular 
within. Calyx gamosepalous; 2 superior lobes or teeth connate to 
a greater height than others. Petals rather long-unguiculate ; 
standard suborbicular ; wings obliquely oblong; keel curved, acute 
or acuminate. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform. 
Germen subsessile o-ovulate, longitudinally furrowed; style in- 
flexed, more or less dilated at middle, tapering at apex; stigma 
capitate terminal. Legume unevenly terete, circinate-revolute, 
unevenly furrowed and ribbed ; ribs originally ventral, often tuber- 
1 Desvx., Journ. Bot., i. 121, t. 4.—ENDL., 
Gen. u. 5586.—Astrolobium DC., Prodr., ii. 
311 (part.). 
2 A, Ricu., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, xiv. 261, 
t. 15, fig. 2; FL. Abyss. Tent., t. 39. 
3 Species about 7. Bror., Phyt. Lusit., t. 67, 
68.—Sistz., Fl. Grec., t. '714.—Hocust., in 
Field. et Gardn, Sert, Pt., t. 49.—BEnNTH., in 
Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 51, t. 11—Gren. & 
Gonpr., Fl. de Fr., i. 498.—Baker, in Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. ii, 189.— Watp., Ann, ii. 406 
(Antopetitia) ; iii. 849; iv. 532. 
VOL. II. 
4 Til. Plant. Syr., i. t. 1.—B. H., Gen., 509, 
un. 138.—Ludovicia Coss., in Bull. Soc. Bot. de 
Fr., iii. 674, »(Legume more compressed than in 
4. lotoides FENzt.) 
5 Yellow, finally dusky. ° 
® Species 2. Waxp., Rep., i. 724. 
7 Gen, n. 886.—J., Gen., 361.—GzrRty., 
Fruct., ii. 345, t. 155.—DC., Prodr., ii. 308.— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 6584.—B. H., Gen., 508, u. 
137.—Scorpioides T., Inst., 402, t. 226.— 
Scorpius Lots., Fl. Gall., 468. 
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