The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
189. Seeds with an outgrowth at the hilum. Fruit linear or oblong,
flat. Petals free from the staminal tube. Shrubs. (See 187.) =Cytisus=
L.
Seeds without an outgrowth at the hilum. 190
190. Keel distinctly curved inwards; wings and keel free from the
staminal tube; standard suborbicular. Fruit linear or oblong, flat,
covered with glandular tubercles or hairs. Shrubs. Leaves trifoliolate,
with small stipules. Flowers in racemes, yellow. (See 186.)
=Adenocarpus= DC.
Keel straight or nearly so, blunt, gibbous at each side; wings and keel
usually adnate to the staminal tube; the former oblong; standard ovate.
Fruit usually inflated. Shrubs or undershrubs.--Species 40. North
Africa. Some species yield fibres, dyes, and medicaments, or serve as
ornamental plants. (Including _Retama_ Boiss.) =Genista= L.
191. (181.) Calyx deeply divided. Ovary more or less distinctly
stalked. Leaflets minutely toothed. Stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk.
(See 129.) =Ononis= L.
Calyx shortly toothed. Filaments not broadened above. Ovary sessile or
nearly so. Leaflets entire. 192
192. Calyx obscurely toothed, coloured. Corolla yellow, free from the
staminal tube. Fruit thickened or winged at the upper suture. Seeds
without an outgrowth at the hilum. Spinous shrubs. Leaves digitate,
without stipules. Flowers solitary or in fascicles.--Species 3. North
Africa. Used medicinally. =Calycotome= Link
Calyx distinctly toothed. Corolla red, blue, or white. 193
193. Petals with a long claw, blue or violet; wings and keel adnate at
the base to the staminal tube. Fruit oblong, glandular-hairy. Seeds
without an outgrowth at the hilum. Spinous shrubs. Leaves trifoliolate
on the young branches, unifoliolate on the older. Flowers solitary or
in fascicles. Bracteoles small, leaf-like.--Species 1. North Africa
(Algeria). Used medicinally. =Erinacea= Boiss.
Petals with a short claw or sessile, free from the staminal tube. Seeds
with an outgrowth at the hilum. Unarmed plants. Leaves trifoliolate.
Flowers in racemes or panicles. 194
194. Keel shorter than the standard. Corolla red or violet. Fruit
linear, many-seeded. Shrubs. Bracteoles bristle-like.--Species 1. South
Africa (Cape Colony). =Hypocalyptus= Thunb.
Keel longer than the standard. Corolla red or white. Fruit
ovate-lanceolate, few-seeded. Undershrubs.--Species 1. South Africa
(Cape Colony). =Loddigesia= Sims
195. (148.) Leaves equally pinnate. 196
Leaves unequally pinnate. 197
196. Leaflets 4. Flowers solitary or in spikes. Calyx with a long,
narrow tube and unequal lobes. Corolla yellow or whitish; keel
beaked. Filaments all united. Ovules 2-3. Fruit oblong, inflated,
continuous within, indehiscent, ripening beneath the soil. Stem
herbaceous.--Species 1 (_A. hypogaea_ L., ground-nut). Cultivated. The
seeds are edible and yield oil; the leaves are used as a vegetable or
as fodder. =Arachis= L.
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