. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fi&. 184. Seed. Fig. 185. Longitudinal section of seed. of the filaments dilated. Here belong the five genera Coronilla, Ornithopus, Hammatolobium, Scorpiurus, and Hippoerepis. The subseries StylosanthecB comprises the three genera Stylosanthes, Zornia, and Chapmannia, formed of herbaceous or scarcely sufirutescent plants, with exstipellate paucifoliolate leaves and spicate or capitate, rarely racemose, flowers. The stamens are monadelphous, forming an unslit tube, and five of them are shorter than the rest, which have versatile anthers. The Earthnu
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fi&. 184. Seed. Fig. 185. Longitudinal section of seed. of the filaments dilated. Here belong the five genera Coronilla, Ornithopus, Hammatolobium, Scorpiurus, and Hippoerepis. The subseries StylosanthecB comprises the three genera Stylosanthes, Zornia, and Chapmannia, formed of herbaceous or scarcely sufirutescent plants, with exstipellate paucifoliolate leaves and spicate or capitate, rarely racemose, flowers. The stamens are monadelphous, forming an unslit tube, and five of them are shorter than the rest, which have versatile anthers. The Earthnuts {Arachis; Fr., Ara- cJiide), have the general characters of StylosanthecB; but may be placed in a separate category because their indehiscent fruits ripen under- ground, and though contracted between the seeds, never separate into joints. The radicle is straight (figs. 184', 185).' Desmodiece forms the last group of this series, remarkable for its trifoliolate leaves, whose lateral leaflets (fig. 186) may be much reduced or even altogether ab- sent. Here belong the genera Desmodium, Pseudarthria, Pycno- spora, TJraria, Lourea, Mecopus, Alysicarpus, Phylacium, Hallia, Meiotis, Leptodesmia, Cranocar- pus, Lespedeza, and Ouyeinia. In the last few of these genera the ovary usually contains only one ovule; so that the fruit is short, one-seeded and indehis- cent as in Onobrychis ; the genus Ouyeinia, by its leaves and the form of its floral receptacle connects this series with Phaseolem. At the same time its fruit is articulated, composed of one or more flattened woody joints, each resembling the entire fruit of the Dalbergie<s. ' After this genus comes ArihrocUantius H. edition, but which will be found in its place at Bn., given only in the Addenda in the French n. 153a in the following Fia. 186. Leafy branch (5). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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