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25. LEGUMINOS^. 
Tr. III. HEDYiSARE.E. Pod dividing transversely into 
1 -seeded joints. L. impariplnnate. 
16. Oekithopus. Cal. long, tubular, with 5 nearly equal 
teeth, 2 upper ones slightly combined and converging. 
Keel blunt. Fod long, compressed, of many l-seeded 
iiidehisce/it joints equally narrowed o^n hoth sides at the 
joinings. — Apex of the common peduncle bearing a small 
pinnate leaf just below the flowers. 
17. Artheolobium. Cal. long, tubular, with 5 nearly equal 
teeth, 2 upper ones combined up to their middle and 
straight. Keel blunt. Pod long, terete, of many l-seeded 
indehiscent Jowi.<s scarcely narrowed at the joinings. — No 
leaf at the ajje.r of the peduncles. 
18. HiPPOCREPis. Cal. short, bell-shaped, with 5 nearly 
equal teeth, 2 upper ones combined up to their middle. 
Keel narrowed into a beak. Pod long, compressed, of 
many l-seeded crescent-shajted joints, so that each pod has 
'many notches o'n one side. 
19. ONOBKYcms. Cal. with 5 nearly equal subulate teeth. 
Keel obliquely truncate, longer than the wings. Pod 
l-celled, compressed, indehiscent, l-seeded, upper suture 
straight, loiver curved toothed winged or crested. 
Tribe I. Lotece. 
1. U'lex Linn. Furze. ^Yhin. Gorse. 
1. U. europae'us (L. em. Roth); young 1. shaggy beneath 
furrowed, primary spines strong terete-polygonal furrowed 
rough, st. hairy, fl. lateral, bracts ovate lax, cal. shaggy, wings 
longer than keel.— ^. B. 742.— St. shrubby, 4—6 feet high, 
much branched, spreading. Fl. bright yellow, from both the 
primary and secondary spines. Cal.-teeth converging, finely 
downy. Spines branching at their base and up to about theii 
middle, not exceeding the flowers.— U. strictus (Mack.) 
primary spines small slender tetragonal, plant 1 — 2 ft. high 
with upright branches. — Does not come true from .seed 
E. B. S. 2988.— Heaths. Sh. II.— VI. E. S. I 
2. U, Gal'lii (Planch.) ; young 1. glabrous ciliate furrowed 
primary spines strong deflexed subterete striate smooth, st 
hairy, fl. lateral and terminal, bracts minute adpressed, <al.. 
fnely downy, n'ings longer than keel. — E. B. S. 2987.— St. 2— 
5 ft. high. Fl. orange, pet. more or less divaricate ; wings no 
straight and thus often seeming shorter than keel. Cal.-teetl 
