TAB. 256.
LEOBORDEA GENISTOiDES, Fenzl.
LEOBORDEA, Delile, Flore de CArabie (in Léon de Laborde, Voyage de l’Arabie Pêtrée), p. 86.
Jaubert et Spach, Leobordeæ orientales, in Ann. des Sciences nat., a8 sér., vol. 19, p. a32.
Calyx ebracteolatus, persistens, submembranaceus, subcoloratus, campanulatus, aut
ultra medium trifidus (segmentis 2 superioribus lateralibus, conformibus, æqualibus, semi-
bifidis, segmento infimo integerrimo multo latioribus), aut profunde bilàbiatus (labio su-
periori magno, ultra medium bi parti to : segmentis bifidis, conformibus; inferiori minuto,
integerrimo). Corolla persistens, papilionacea, ringens; petalis longe unguiculatis. V exil-
lüm adscendens v. reflexum, æquilaterum, esaccatum, alis longius. A læ ovales v. oblongæ,
obtusæ, inæquilateræ, rectæ, planiusculæ,-esaccatæ, inadhærentes, carinæ accumbentes
iliaque breviores, latere superiori a basi fere ad medium usque transverse pliculatæ. Carina
cymbæformis, bipes, obtuse biceps, esaccata, compressa, a vexillo plus minusve distans.
G enitalia carina inclusa. Stamina 10, monadelpha; vagina elongata, supra fissa. F ila-
menta capillaria, adscendentia, incurva, alterne longiora brevioraque. A ntheræ ovales v.
oblongæ, anisometræ : 4 laciniis calycinis superioribus respondentes cæteris duplo plusve
majores. Ovarium lanceolatum v. lanceolato-lineare, compressum, 4-io-ovulatum. Stylus
11 neari-lanceolatus v. filiformis, marcescens, arcuatus, sub anthesi incurvus, dein deorsum
flexus, infra medium sericeus v. villosus, sursum glaber. Stigma obliquum v. capitellatum,
terminale, imberbe. L egumen oblongum v. subclavatum v. subrhombeum, truncatum, .v.
acuminatum, compressum, v. tandem subteres, breve, cartilagineum,• tenue, etorulosum,
i-loculare, bivalve, 3-io-spermum, ad suturas carinulatum; valvæ tenerrime reticulatæ,.
demum tortæ. Semina horizontalia v. appensa, reniformia v. subglobosa, estrophiolata,
decidua; testa tenuis, chartacea ; albumen corneum, crassiusculum; hilus excavatus, lateralis,
a chalaza haud distinctus; exostoma punctiforme, hilo contiguum et superpositum.
Embryo curvus; cotyledones ovales v. subrotundæ, facie plante, dorso convexæ; radicula
decurva, subclavata, cotyledonibus subæquilonga, accumbens.
Herbæ v. suffruticuli, sericeo-argentei v. canescentes. F olia palmato-trifoliolata (speciê-
bus quibusdam 3-6-foliolata), sparsa, v. subopposita; foliolis integerrimis, subsessilibus.
Stipulæ foliaceæ, persistentes, laterales, speciebus plerisque solitariæ. F lores alares v.
oppositifolii, solitarii, v. gemini, v. fasciculati, albidi, v. rosei, v. coerulescentes, v. citrini,
breve pedicellati. Pedicelli basi i-bracteolati.