n64 DIADELPHIA. DECAND. 1380. Arachis. 



incisa. Herbaceous: leaves pinnate and ternate, unequal, wedge- 



cut-toothed. 



Iflancls of the Archiepelago, Willd. 3. p,\o\ 7. 

 Plant fmall : jlipules ovate, as large as the leaves. 



quinquefolia Herbaceous: leaves ternate, linear; head about 5-flowered. 

 The Cape. Leafets obtufe, hairy : peduncles terminal. 



B. Shrubby. 



linifolia. Shrubby: leaves ternate, feflile, fword-fhaped : flowers in 

 heads. 

 The Cape. Leaves feflile, remote : Jlipules none. 



visci/lora. Leaves finuate in a finger-like manner : calyxes hairy. 



The Cape. Leafets linear, ovate, glabrous, unequal ; 2 of them 

 feflile and oppafire, and 3 petioled between them ; the lateral 

 ones ternate or pinnate: peduncles as long as the leaves. 



Barba Shrubby; leaves pinnate, equal, filky-downy : head glo- 



Jovis, bular, many-flowered : bra£tes as long as the head. 



South of Europe, Milt. fg. t.\\.f. 2 . 

 splendens. Shrubby: leaves pinnate, equal, iiikv-downy: head ap- 

 pearing cut in halves, few -flowered : bracte longer 

 than the head. 

 Crete. Willd. 3. p. 101 8. Bra&e ternate or pinnate. 



cretica. Shrubby; leaves pinnate and ternate, equal, villous: flow- 

 ers in fpikes. 

 Crete. Pluk. aim. t. 6y, f. £. Alp. exot. t. 2? 8. 

 Leafets lanceolate : braftes ovate, acute, fcanous. 



heterophylla Shrubby: leaves pinnate ; the floral ones ternate. 

 Spain. Sbrub hoary: leafets acute, filky. 



cytisoides. Shrubby: leaves ternate, unequal : calyxes woolly, lateral. 



Spain. Upper leaves Ample, feflile: peduncles 3 flowered. 

 liermannia Shrubby: leaves ternate, linear-wedge-form, (lightly peti- 

 oled : heads campanulate: branches becoming fpi- 

 nous. 



Greece $ Crete. Zann. hifl. 99. /. 39, Genifta. 



Branches ending in a fpine : jt&wers 4. 

 trinacta. Shrubby, fpinous, with fimple leaves. 



Spain; Barbary. Andrews bot. repof /.15. 



Shrub covered with fpines : Jfauters purple, 



1380. ARACHIS. Qaljix 2-lipped: coral reverfed : 

 filaments all united : legume gibbous, 1 welling 

 at the feeds, veined, coriaceous. Ground- JNut, 



hypogaa* Arachis. 



Indies. Ehret.pift, t, $.f. 3, Rumph. amb. 4, 7.156. 



