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XLIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
\Glycyrrhiza. 
observed by R. Brown, upon which he founded his genus Clidanthera as distinguished from 
Psoralen, are to be seen, in a greater or less degree, in all the species of Glycyrrhiza, which 
moreover differ essentially from Psoralea in habit, in the ovules always more than one, and in 
the seed, even when solitary, never adhering to the pericarp. — Benth. 
1. G-. psoraleoides (Psoralea-like), Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 225. An erect herb 
or undershrub of 2ft. or more, glabrous or nearly so, but more or less glandular- 
viscid. Leaflets usually 9 or 11, from elliptical-oblong to linear, f to lin. long or 
rarely more, bordered with minute glandular teeth. Flowers small, in pedun- 
culate racemes or interrupted spikes. Calyx about 1£ line long; petals about 
twice as long. Ovules 2. Pod reddish, about 3 lines long, flattened, burr-like, 
muricate, the sutures slightly thickened, apparently indehiscent, containing 1 or 2 
brown, slightly-veined seeds. — Indiyofera acanthocarpa, Lindl. in Mitch. Three 
Exped. ii. 17 ; Clidanthera psoraleoides, R. Br. App. Sturt Exped. 11 ; Psoralea 
acanthocarpa, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 45, and PI. Yict. ii. t. 26. 
Hab.: St. George, Jos. Wedd. 
39. ORMOCARPUM, Beauv. 
(From the necklace-like pod.) 
Calyx, 2 upper lobes connivent or shortly connate, the lowest rather longer. 
Standard orbicular ; keel broad, incurved, as long as the wings. Stamens all 
united in a sheath opened on the upper side, and often splitting also on the lower 
side ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, with several ovules ; style indexed, filiform. 
Pod linear, flattened, dividing into 2 or more oblong or elongated indehiscent 
articles, narrowed at each end and longitudinally furrowed, often only one coming 
to perfection.— Tall shrubs. Leaves pinnate with small leaflets, or in a species 
not Australian of 1 large leaflet. Stipules striate. Flowers yellow, white, or 
streaked with purple, solitary or few together in axillary racemes. Bracts and 
bracteoles persistent. 
Besides the Australian species, which has a wide range in tropical Asia, there are 2 or 3 from 
tropical Africa, and 2 or 3 less perfectly known from Mexico. — Benth. 
1. O. sennoides (Senna-like), DC. Prod. ii. 315, var. lavis : Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 226. Perfectly glabrous, without the glandular pubescence of the 
common E. Indian form. Leaflets 9 to 15, broadly oblong, very obtuse, £ to fin. 
long. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate, sometimes very small, sometimes broad and 
2 lines long. Peduncles axillary, either short and 1 -flowered, or rather longer, 
bearing 2 or 3 flowers. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, with 2 small bracteoles above 
the middle. Flowers yellow, about 5 lines long. Pod usually of 3 or 4 articles, 
but some remaining small and imperfect, and 1 or 2 only ripening, attaining in 
this variety above lin. in length, and about 3 lines broad in the middle. — 
FEschynomene colutcoides, A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 87, t. 32. 
Hab.: Endeavour River (?), Banks and Solander, R. Brown. 
I have seen Australian specimens only in Herb. R. Brown, and a coloured figure in Sir J. 
Banks’ unpublished plates, neither with the precise station. This glabrous variety extends over 
the Archipelago to Siam and the Philippines. The common E. Indian form (Wight, Ic. t. 297) 
has usually a glandular-pubescent inflorescence, and the pods with shorter articles more or less 
glandular- warted ; but there appear to be intermediates preventing the maintaining the two 
forms as independent species. — Benth. 
40. /ESCHYNOMENE, Lirm. 
(Modest ; from some species being sensitive.) 
Calyx-lobes nearly equal or united into 2 lips, either entire or the upper one 
2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed. Standard orbicular ; keel much curved and almost 
beaked, or rarely obovate and nearly straight. Stamens usually all united in a 
sheath more or less split both on the upper and lower edge, dividing the stamens 
