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reflexed edges; keel equal to wings or slightly longer; petals. im- 
bricate below. Stamens 10, free. Germen sessile or shortly stipi- 
tate o-ovulate; style incurved; stigma minute terminal. Legume 
sessile or shortly stipitate, oblong linear or inflated, straight or 
incurved scarcely coriaceous. Seeds arillate or exarillate—Perennial 
herbs; rhizome usually creeping; annual branches erect, simple or 
branched, sheathing at base ; lower leaves reduced to broad scarious- 
membranous sheath passing from entire below to 3-toothed or 3- 
dentate ; upper leaves perfect, alternate digitately 3-foliolate, stipules 
leafy lateral free; flowers' ebracteolate in terminal or leaf-opposed 
racemes (orth America and Eastern Asia’). 
238. Baptisia Venr.\—Flowers nearly of Thermopsis ; receptacle 
obtuse at base or very shortly turbinate. Germen stipitate ; ovules 
oo. Other parts of Zhermopsis. Legume stipitate subglobose or 
ovoid, inflated often coriaceous. Seeds arillate or exarillate-—Herbs, 
with habit of Zhermopsis ; leaves 3-foliolate, more rarely simple or 
perfoliate ; stipules 0, or small, or large foliaceous free; flowers’ 
in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, bracts simple or 0; bractlets 2 or 
0 (Worth America’). 
239. Anagyris T.\—Flowers nearly of TZhermopsis; standard 
shorter than wings; sides not reflexed. Germen shortly stipitate ; 
ovules o. Other parts of Zhermopsis. Legume stipitate broadly 
linear compressed, more or less torulose, with thin incomplete septa 
inside parting seeds. Seeds o, exarillate.—Shrubs ; leaves alternate 
digitately 3-foliolate; stipules 2, connate into 1 oppositifolious ; 
flowers’ in short racemes at ends of branches ; pedicels 2, 3 in axil of 
1 Yellow or purple, rather large and hand- 
some. 
2 Species about 12. Patz, Astrag., t. 89, 
90.—Tozr. & Gr. Fl. N. Amer. i. 387.— 
Deuess., Icon. Sel., iii. 36, t, 60.—JACQUEM., 
Voy. Bot., t. 39.—Royuz, Ill. Himal., t. 32.— 
Hoox., Fl. Bor.-Amer., i. t. 47.— A, Gray, 
Chlor. Bor.-Amer., t. 7-9.— Bot, Reg., t. 1272.— 
Bot. Mag., t. 1889 (Podalyria), 3611, 4868.— 
Watpe., Rep., i. 562. 
8 Dec. Gen. Nov., 9.—R. BR., in Ait. Hort. 
Kew., ed. 2, iii. 5.—DC., Mém. Légum., t. 4; 
Prodr., ii, 100.—Enpt,, Gen., n. 6421.—B. H., 
Gen., 466, n. 4,.— Crotalopsis MicHx., mss. (ex 
DC., loc. cit.). 
4 White, blue, or yellow. 
5 Species about 14. Gartn., Fruct., ii. 321, 
t. 149 (Sophora).—Micux., Fl. Bor.-Amer., i. 
263.—VeEnt., Jard. Cels., t. 56.—SwEEt, Brit. 
Fl. Gard., t. 97.—Torz. & Gr., Fl. N. Amer., 
i. 263.— Bot. Reg., t. 3121.--Bot. Mag., t. 1099, 
1177.—Watp., Rep., i. 563; Ann, ii. 307. 
6 Instit., 647, t. 415.—L., Gen., n. 509.—J., 
Gen. 352.—Lamx., Dict. i. 141; Suppl., i. 
332; Iil., t. 328.—DC., Mém. Légum., t. 4, fig. 
3; Prodr., ii. 99.—EnpL., Gen., n. 6418 (parts). 
—B. H., Gen., 465, n. 1. 
7 Yellow, rather large. 
