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inconspicuous; flowers' very shortly racemose subfascicled on short 
twigs among fascicles of leaves ; bract 3-fid or 3-crenate, inserted at 
top of pedicel, embracing flower® (Mediterranean’). 
198. Adenocarpus DC.‘'—Flowers almost those of Genista; 2 
superior lobes of calyx nearly or quite free; 3 inferior more or less 
connate. Keel much curved or shortly beaked. Legume sessile 
linear compressed, glandular-tubercular or muricated outside, 2- 
valved.—Shrubs, villous or silky ; branches often divaricated ; leaves 
digitate 3-foliolate ; stipules small setaceous or minute; flowers* in 
terminal racemes; bracts and bractlets small caducous or larger 
foliaceous and longer persistent (Southern Europe, northern and tropical 
Africa, Canary Islands’). 
199. Petteria Prest.’—Flowers nearly of Genista or La- 
burnum ; calyx tubular; 2 superior lobes free, broadly falcate; 3 
inferior connate into a 3-toothed lip. Petals adnate at base to 
staminal tube. Legume broadly linear, compressed subfalcate, con- 
tinuous within, 2-valved; sutures scarcely thickened, wingless.—A 
shrub, almost glabrous; leaves digitate 3-foliolate ; stipules small; 
flowers® in dense terminal racemes ; bract inserted on pedicel, mem- 
branous caducous (Dalmatia’). 
200. Argyrolobium Ecxa. & Zeya."—Flowers almost those of 
Cytisus ; calyx deeply cleft; 2 superior lobes connate or nearly free ; 
3 inferior connate into a 3-fid or 3-toothed lip. Keel obtuse 
Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; tube closed or more or less deeply longi- 
tudinally cleft above. 
Legume linear compressed, often narrowed at 
1 Yellow. 
2 « Bracts connate with bractlets ?” (BENTH.). 
3 Species 3 or 4.. T., Inst., 648 (Cytisus).— 
L., Spec., 997 (Spartium).—LamMx., Dict., ii. 
247 (Cytisus)—DC., Prodr., ii. 154, u. 18, 14 
(Cytisus).—Ststx., Fl. Gree., t. 673.—GREN. 
& Gonr., Fl. de Fr., i. 346.— Bot. Reg. (1846), 
t. 55. 
4 Fl. Fr., Suppl. 549; Prodr., ii. 158.— 
Ewnvu., Gen., n. 6492.—B. H., Gen., 481, u. 58. 
5 Yellow. 
5 Species 8. W., Spec., iii. 837 (Genista).— 
Sistu., Fl. Grec., t. 704.—Borss., Voy., t. 41, 
42.—Wrsp, Otia Hisp., t. 4; Phyt, Canar., t. 
50, 50 B.—Gren. & Gonz., Fl. de Fr., i. 363.— 
Baker, in Oliv, Fl. Drop. Afr, ii, 47.—Bot. 
Mag, t. 426, 1387 (Cytisus)—Watr., Rep 
624; ii. 838. 
7 Bot. Bem., 139.—B. H., Gen,, 482, n. 61. 
8 Yellow. 
9 Species 1. P. ramentacea PrEst, loc. cit.— 
Cytisus .ramentaceus Sixp., in Flora, v. 242.— 
C. Weldenii Vis., in Flora, xiii. 52; Fl. 
Dalmat., t. 39.—Bot. Reg. (1843), t. 40.— 
Waxp., Ann., i. 223, 
W Hnwm., 184.—ENDL., Gen., n. 6504.—B. H., 
Gen., 480, n. 57.—Gamochilum WALpP., in Lin- 
nea, xiii. 509.—Trichasma W aLP., loc. cit.,510.— 
? Chamacytisus Vi8., Fl. Dalmat., 272, t. 55 (ex 
BENTH.). 
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