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LEGUMINOSiE. CL. ^schynomene. CLI. Smitiiia. CLII. Lourea. 



hairy ; racemes 3-flowered : bracteas cillately serrated ; legumes 

 hairy, O. S. Native of New Spain. M. hirta, Lag. nov* gen. 

 et spec. 22. but not of Lam. 



Hirsute iEschynomene. PI. 1 foot. 



39 JE. HiRTA (Lam. ill. 629. f. 1. Poir. diet. 4. p. 450.) 

 plant hispid in every part ; stem herbaceous ; branches terete ; 

 leaves with 7-9 pairs of oval-hnearmucronulate leaflets ; racemes 

 terminal, many-flowered ; calyx 5-parted, having the lobes 

 nearly equal, and subulate at the apex; legumes hairy, with the 

 joints tumid and tubercled in the centre. ©. S. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



Hairy -^schynomene. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



40 M. arb6uea (Lin. spec. 1060.) stem arboreous, smooth ; 

 joints of legume semi-cordate, glabrous. Tp . S. Native of the 

 East Indies. Flowers large, copper-coloured. Perhaps a species 

 o{ Desmddium. Perhaps /). Mauriiianum. 



Arboreous -^schynomene. Shrub 6 to 7 feet. 



41 iE. ? iiETERoriiY^LLA (Lour. cochin, p. 446.) shrubby; 

 branches tomcntose ; lower leaves ternate, with ovate leaflets, 



3 S, geminiflora (Roth. nov. spec. 352.) lips of calyx en- 

 tire ; racemes pedunculate, 2-flowered. ©. S. Native of the 

 East Indies. Flowers probably purple. Calyxes or bracteas 

 ending in a setose mucrone. On the pagina of the leaf the 

 supine bristles or hairs are more copious than in S. sensiiica, 



Smithia. Fl. July. Clt. 1810. "' 



Twin-flowered 



PI. proc. 



+ A douhtfi 



4 S. spica'ta (Spreng. neue entd. 2. p. IGO.) spikes of flowers 

 on very short peduncles, secund, distich, very hairy ; leaves im- 

 pari-pinnate : stem shrubby ; stamens monadelphous. Tj . S. 

 Native of Senegambia. In every particular this plant differs 

 from Smithia^ but its legitimate genus is unknown. 



/S/)iA:e-flowered Smithia. Shrub. 



Cult. See Lourea for culture and propagation. 



us, but it is apparently the name of some person), 

 no. 1318. 



unknown to 

 Neck. elem. 



superior ones impari-pinnate, with roundish leaflets ; peduncles 2. p 



Des"v. journ. hot. 3. p. 122. t."5. f. 18. D. C. prod. 

 323, but not of Jaum. 



many-flowered ; calyx 4-toothed ; stamens monadelphous ; le- 

 gumes pilose, with cordate joints. T? . G. Native of the north 

 of Cochin-china. Flowers small, white. This plant ought cer- 

 tainly to be removed from the present genus. 



Variable-leaved ^schynomene. Shrub 7 to 8 feet. 



Lin. syst. DmdelpMa^ Decandria. Calyx campanulate, per- 

 manent, 5-cleft (f. 43. a.), with equal spreading lobes, when in 

 fruit inflated and conniving at the apex. Corolla papilionaceous, 

 with an obcordate vexillum (f. 43. rf.), and an obtuse keel (f. 43. 

 6.). Stamens diadelphous (f. 43. c). Legume with 4-6 fiat 



42 ^. ? cre'pitans (Jacq. fragm. 37. t. 42. f. 2.) stem ar- 1-seeded joints (f. 43. i.), bent backward into plaits (f. 43. i.)i 



boreous ; leaves glabrous, young ones decompound ; legumes which nestle within the calyx. 



stipitate, glabrous, linear, the seeds intercepted by cellular sub- ceous stipulas, simple or trifoliate leaves, 



Erect Indian plants, with seta 



terminal 



stance; the sutures prominent, but retaining the joints. Ij . S. 

 Native of Caraccas* Perhaps a species of Mimosa. 



Rattling -$]schynomene. Tree. 



Cult. The species of this genus require more than an ordi- 

 nary degree of heat to preserve them through the winter, so that 

 they are seldom kept alive through the winter in this country, 

 and consequently never grow to a flowering state. Rich loam 



suits them best, and cuttings may be rooted in sand under a vespertilionis, Lin. fil. suppl. 331. 

 hand-glass in heat; however, they are not worth growing except Jacq. icon, ran 3. t. 566. Christia 



racemes of purple or white flowers. 



1 L. VESPERTILIONIS (DcSV. 1. C.) 



lateral leaflets wanting or very small, 

 terminal one large, transversely 

 and falcately oblong, 10-times the 

 breadth of the length. ©. S. Na- 

 tive of Cochin-china. Hedysarum 



FIG. 43. 



in botanical gardens. 



lunata, Moench. suppl. 39. Corolla 

 white, spreading. Leaves 



cres- 



CLI. SMl'THIA (in honour of the late Sir James Edward cent-shaped, 4 lines long, and 2 

 Smith, M.D. F.R.S. and P.L S. founder of the Linnaean society, inches broad, variegated with yel- 



and possessor of the Linnsean herbarium ; author of English 



Botany, English Flora, Flora Britannica, and the botanical part 

 of Rees* cyclopaedia ; died in 1829, in the 69th year of his 

 age). Ait. hort kew.ed. 1. vol. 3. p. 496. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 336. 

 Lam. ill. 627- Desv. journ. bot. 3. p. 121. t. 4. f. 12. D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 323. 



LiN. svsT. Diadelphiay Decdndria. Calyx bipartite. Corolla 

 papilionaceous. Stamens divided into 2 equal bvmdles. Legume 

 transversely articulated, plicate, inclosed in the calyx. This 

 genus is nearly allied to ^schynomencyhut is distinguished from 

 it in the legume being inclosed with incumbent joints. The 

 calyx, stamens, and habit are that of jEschynovieney but the pods 

 are that of Zowrea. 



1 S. SENsiTi'vA (Ait. 1, c. t. 13. Sal. par. lond. t. 92.) lips of 

 calyx entire; racemes pedunculate, 3-5-flowered. O.S. Na- 

 tive of the East Indies. Petagnana sensitiva, Gmel. syst. p. 

 1119. CoroniUa Surattensis, Garc. in herb. Burm. confused 

 with Galcga senticosa, Burm. fl, ind. 172. Leaves with many 

 pairs of small leaflets. Plant trailing. Flowers yellow. 



Sensitive Smithia. FL July, Sept. Clt. 1785. PI. procumbent. 



2 S. confe'rta (Smith, inRees' cycl. 33. no. 2.) lips of calyx 

 toothed at the apex ; racemes sessile, shorter than the leaves. 

 O. ? S. Native of New Holland, within the tropic. Smithia 

 capitita, Desv. 1. c. Flowers yellow. 



Cronrfcd-flowered Smithia. Fl. July. Clt. 1820. PL proc. 



low, red, and green (f. 43.). 



Lourea. 



Bat-wingAesLxed 



FL 



July, Sept. 

 4 feet. 



Clt. 1780. PL 2 to 



leaves rather pubescent ; 

 leaflets 



1. c.) 

 lateral 



rarely wanting, 

 Native of Java and Timor 



terminal one 



HedV" 



small, ovate-obcordate, 

 shorter than broad. ©. S. 

 sarum obcordktum, Poir. diet. 6. p. 425. 



ObcordoteAeaRetted Lourea. PL 2 to 4 feet. 



3 L. RENiFORMis (D. C. prod. 2. p. 324.) leaves simple, tr^w* 

 versely-reniform, others trifoliate, with the lateral leaflets smaller 

 and oval ; racemes opposite the leaves, and longer than thero. 



0. S. Native in the suburbs of Canton. 



Hedysarum re»i 



forme. Lour, coch, p. 447. exclusive of the synonymes. 



^— - ' Flowers violaceous- 



FL JuL Aug. Clt. 1818. PL proc- 



Loureirii, Spreng. syst. append, p. 292. 

 Very like the first species. 



/Jeni/brm-leaved to urea 



Cult. The species of Lourea nave aratner smguiai «rr- , 

 ance from their kidney-shaped painted leaves. Being annu 

 their seeds should be sown in pots, filled with a mixture of pea 

 and sand, with a little loam, and placed in a hot-bed, ^^j . ,^ 

 the plants have grown 2 inches high, they should be planted in 

 separate small pots, and afterwards shifted into larger ones as 

 they grow. 



