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have feven teeth of equal length. Corolla of five petals. 
Standard with a firm horizontal claw, its limb ere(51:, 
round, flightly notched, the two fides generally folded 
together, deep yellow, with a red femicircular line near 
the bafe. Wings nearly linear, obtufe, concave, with a 
large tooth at the bafe, deep yellow, horizontal, much 
fliorter than the fiandard. Keel of two pale yellow, 
obovate, concave petals, as long as the wings, ftrongly 
connected by their lower edge, and with a tooth near 
their bafe on the upper. Stainina all nearly equal, 
fomewhat fliorter than the keel, a little declining; 
filaments inferted into the receptacle, cylindrical, taper- 
ing to a point ; anthem fmall, roundifh. Germen final 1, 
green, oval, fmooth, tipped with a tuft of white hair, 
and containing the rudiments of two or three feeds ; 
Jlyle longer than the fiamina, fubulate, recurved, fmooth ; 
Jiigma acute. Pod fcarcely longer than the calyx, 
roundifh, pointed, turgid, brown, hairy at the extremity, 
of one cell, containing two feeds on fliort footftalks, in- 
ferted into the upper edge of each valve near the bafe. 
The plant appears to abound with mucilage, efpecially 
the leaves. 
EXPLANATION of TAB. XII. 
I. A Leaf with its fiipula. 2. Floral leaf and the 
flipula which accompanies it. 3. Calyx. 4. Its ap- 
pendages. 5. Standard. 6. A Wing. 7. Keel. 8. Sta- 
mina and Pift ilium. 9. Piftillum alone. 10. Rudiments 
of Seeds, ii. Pod inverted with the permanent calyx. 
