348° NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
each stipulaceous sheathing or small deciduous bract; bractlets 0- 
(Mediterranean, Arabia, Canary Islands’). 
240. Piptanthus D. Don.2—Flowers of TZhermopsis; standard 
subequal to wings ; sides reflexed. Legume stipitate broadly lear 
plano-compressed, continuous within. Seeds minutely arillate.—A 
shrub; leaves petiolate, digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules 2, connate 
into 1, leaf-opposed ; flowers’ in short racemes at ends of branches ; 
pedicels 2, 3, in axil of each sheathing deciduous bract* (Himalaya’). 
241? Pickeringia Nurt.'—Flowers nearly of Baptisia ; recep- 
tacle shortly obconical glandular within, calyx campanulate, with 
subequal imbricated teeth. Germen shortly stipitate o-ovulate; 
style incurved; stigma minute terminal. Legume. .. .P—A bushy 
shrub; twigs often spinescent; leaves alternate 1-3 foliolate ; 
petiole very short concave; stipules 0 or very small; flowers’ in 
short terminal racemes or solitary pedunculate in axils of highest 
leaves of twigs; bractlets 2, lateral small (California’). 
242. Brachysema R. Br.’—Receptacle concave, glandular within. 
Calyx-lobes 5, of nearly equal length; 2 superior more or less con- 
nate; prefloration imbricate. Petals usually very unequal ; standard 
shorter and narrower than wings, often minute, more or less re- 
curved ; wings narrow oblong; keel usually longer and broader than 
wings, incurved; 2 dorsal petals connate. Stamens 10, free; 5 
alternipetalous longer. Germen sessile or stipitate,” oo-ovulate ; 
style thin long; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume ovate or 
elongated ; valves coriaceous.—Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves either 
1 Species 2. Sratu., Fl. Gree. t. 366.— 
Drsr., Fl. <Atlant., i. 385.— WeEBB, Phyt. 
Canar., t. 40.—Lopp., Bot. Cab., t. 740.— 
Gren. & Gopr., Fl. de Fr., i. 343. 
2 In Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard., t. 264.—B. H., 
Gen., 465, n. 2. 
3 Yellow, rather large. 
4 This genus, with the flowers and fruit of 
Thermopsis, and the stipules and inflorescence of 
Anagyris, is, os it were, intermediate between 
them, and should perhaps be rather reduced to a 
section of the former; for the generic separa- 
tion of Thermopsis, Baptisia, Anagyris, and 
Piptanthus seems hardly correct. 
5 Species 1. P. nepaulensis Don, loc. cit.— 
Thermopsis nepaulensis DC., Prodr., ii. 99, n. 
3.—T. laburnifolia Don, Prodr. Fi. Nepatl., 
241.—Hoox., Exot. Fl., t. 181 (Baptisia). 
5 Ex Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. Amer., i. 389.— 
B. ., Gen., 466, n. 5. 
7 “Red.” 
® Species 1. P. montana Nurr.—torr., in 
Emor. Rep., t. 14.—Prickothamnus montanus 
Norv. 
9 In Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii, 10.— E01, 
Gen., n. 6425.—B. H., Gen., 467, n. 9, 
10 The section Eubrachysema (stem leafy) has 
a stipitate germen, surrounded by an inner 
sheathing disk within stamens, 
