Text-book of structural and physiological botany . ction of the pericarp between the seeds, w^hen itis termed a lomentum (Fig. 516, II.); rarely indehiscent, as in the seeds are usually exalbuminous, rarely with a small endosperm ;the embryo curved, with the radicle lying on the cleft of the cotyledons.[Among the more important genera are Baptisia, Crotalaria, Lupinus,Genista, Ulex, Cytisus, Ononis, Trigonella, Medicago, Melilotus, Trifolium^Ajithyllis, Lotus, Fsoralea, Indigofera, Wistaria, Robinia, Colutea^Astragalus, Oxytropus, Glycyrrhiza, Ornithopus, Coronilla,
Text-book of structural and physiological botany . ction of the pericarp between the seeds, w^hen itis termed a lomentum (Fig. 516, II.); rarely indehiscent, as in the seeds are usually exalbuminous, rarely with a small endosperm ;the embryo curved, with the radicle lying on the cleft of the cotyledons.[Among the more important genera are Baptisia, Crotalaria, Lupinus,Genista, Ulex, Cytisus, Ononis, Trigonella, Medicago, Melilotus, Trifolium^Ajithyllis, Lotus, Fsoralea, Indigofera, Wistaria, Robinia, Colutea^Astragalus, Oxytropus, Glycyrrhiza, Ornithopus, Coronilla, , Onobrychis, Adesmia, Arachis, Desmodium, Cicer, Vicia special Morphology and Classificatio7t, 401 Lens^ Lathyrns^ Pisum^ Kennedya^ Butea, Phaseolus, Dolichos, Dalbergm,Pterocarpiis, Sophora^ Myroxylon, Swartzia.\ The most valuableagricultural and culinary plants are the scarlet-runner and French bean,Phaseohis imtltifloriis and vulgaris ; the field and garden-pea, Pisumsativum; the vetch, Vicia sativa ; the bean, Vicia Faba ; the lentil,. Fig. 514.—Sweet-pea, Lathyrus odoratus ; I. natural size ; II. floral diagram, Ervum Lens ; the chick-pea, Cicer aritinuin ; the lucerne, Medicagosativa ; the sainfoin, Ojtobrychis sativa, the white lupin, Lttpimcs albtts;and the clovers, Trifolium pratense^ repens^ and incarnatum. Amongofficinal products are the root of the rest-harrow, Ononis spinosa^ and D D 402 Striicttiral and Physiological Botany. the foliage and inflorescence of the melilot, Mdilotus officinalis. Liquoriceis obtained from the roots of Glycyr7hiza echinata and glabra fromsouthern Europe ; several species of Myroxylon of Peru and Colom-bia yield balsam of Peru ; the boiled sap of the bark of Drepano-carpus senegalensis is known as * kino africanum ; gum-tragacanth isobtained from several species of Astragalus from Asia Minor ; andindigo from the East Indian Indigofera tincto-ria ; sandal-wood is the I. 11.
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