HEDYSARUM. 525 
turbinato- campanulatus, usque ad medium bilabiatus, membranaceus, quinquenervius, viridis, externe 
puberulus, persistens ; labia longitudine inter se :qualia; superius late ovatum, concavum, acutum, inte- 
grum vel apice bidentatum ; inferius tripartitum ; laciniis ovatis, acuminatis, subequalibus. Conorra pen- 
tapetala, papilionacea, glabra, basi calycis inserta ; petala flabellato- nervosa ; superius (vexillum) obovato- 
cuneatum, integrum?, calycem superans; duo lateralia (ale) longitudine vexilli, breviter unguiculata, 
oblique obovato-oblonga, apice rotundata, subfalcata, basi subsemicordata, carin adhwrentia; duo infe- 
riora (carina) vexillum multo superantia, cuneata, faleata, apice oblique truncata, unguiculata, supra 
unguem gibba?, marginibus contiguis cohwrentia. SrawtNA 10, diadelpha, apice adscendentia. FiLAMENTA 
glabra, persistentia; 9 in tubum membranaceum supra fissum connata, apice libera ; decimum (superius) 
solutum. Axrnznx subrotunda. Ovammx breviter stipitatum , lineare, compressum, glabrum, apice in 
stylum desinens, 4-5-ovulatum. SrvLus adscendens. SricuA obtusum. LrevwiwA 2-5-articulata, brevissime 
stipitata, spiralia vel rectius margine inter articulos alternatim hinc revoluta inde involuta , recta, calyce et 
filamentis persistentibus suffulta, viridia, glabra, 2-4lineas longa; articuli subrhombei, spiram unicam 
referentes, marginibus duobus involutis, duobus alternis revolutis, monospermi, membranacei, reticulato- 
venosi, non dehiscentes, vix lineam longi. Szwrx4 subrhombeo- elliptica, compressiuscula, obsolete spira- 
liter torta, avia, fusca, nitida, infra medium suspensa, 5 linee longa; hilo orbiculato, margine tumido. 
IxrkcvwENTUM duplex, utrumque membranaceum ; exterius fuscescens; interius hyalinum, exteriori adhzrens. 
EwsnYo lutescens, semini conformis. Coryrznowxzs subrhombeo-elliptice, plano- convexiuscule, carnosz, 
levissime spiraliter tortz. RApicUra longa, subclavata, obtusa, uncinato-inflexa, hilum spectans. ProwxutA 
imperspicua. 
XI. spirali Swartz. simillimum videtur. 
. HEDYSARUM cammrwsE. T 
H. erectum; ramis, petiolis pedunculisque subhirtellis; foliis ternats; foliolis ovato- 
oblongis, superne valde angustatis, mucronulaus, ciliatis, supra hirtellis, subtus glabris; 
racemis elongatis; articulis leguminis 3-5, rhombeis, hirto- adherentibus. 
Crescit prope Caripe Cumanensium , alt. 412 hex. b Floret Septembri. 
Hxnna suffruticosa (?), erecta, 2-5- pedalis, ramosa; ramis alternis, teretibus vel subangulatis, pilis 
minutissimis uncinatis conspersis. Fori alterna, petiolata, ternata ; foliola petiolata, ovato- oblonga, superne 
gradatim angustata, apice obtusiuscnla et mucronulata, basi rotundata, integerrima, reticulato- venosa, 
nervo medio subtus prominente, membranacea, ciliata, supra pilis minutissimis conspersa, subtus glabra 
et pallidiora; terminale a lateralibus remotum , 58 lineas longum, 17 lineas latum; lateralia minora, sub- 
zequilatera, bipollicaria, 10 2 lineas lata; petioli proprii sesquilinoam longi, hirti, terminalis basi bistipu- 
latus, laterales unistipulati; stipul subulate, rigida, petiolis paulo breviores. Perrorr communes angulati, 
interne suleati (?), pilis minutissimis uncinatis obsiti, adjecta rhachi (semipollicari) sesquipollicares. 
SmmvLE petiolares geminz, ovato-lanceolate, acutz, striate, fuscz, glabriuscule, erect, duas lineas 
longe, decidua. Racrwi terminales, tardius oppositifolii, solitarii, pedunculati, simplices vel ramo race- 
mum «quante instructi, 5-8- pollicares ; pedunculo rhachique angulatis, pilis minutissimis uncinatis obsitis. 
Fronzs pedicellati, solitarii vel gemini, magnitudine floris Meliloti officinalis; pedicellis filiformibus, pilis 
uncinatis hirtellis, 5-6 lineas longis, basi bracteatis ; bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, striatis, membra- 
naceis, glabris, fuscis, vix duas lineas longis, caducis. Carvx campanulatus, bilabiatus, glabriusculus, 
coloratus, membranaceus, persistens; labium superius late ovatum, apice bidentatum; dentibus acutis ; 
