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L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) 



l_Zornia., 



Plains from the Himalayas to Cbylox and Birala, ascending to 4000 ft. in 

 KuaiAOX. — DiSTRiB. Everywhere in the Tropics. 



Stents wiry, densely csespitose. Leaves petioled ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 

 rigidly coriaceous, ^-1 in. long, dotted with black glands ; stipules lanceolate, with a 

 long spur. Eacemes 1-3 in. long, 3-12-flowered ; bracts ovate, acute, nearly or quite 

 hiding the flower and pod. Joints 2-6, under ^ in., densely prickly. 



Var. 1. zeyloThcnsis ; leaflets ovate, pod much longer than the bracts, joints 

 twice as large densely bristly. Z. zeylonensis, Fers, ; DC. Frodr. ii. 317 ; WalL Cat, 

 5661; W. ^ A. Frodr. 2\1 ; Dais. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 62. Z. conjugata, Smith in 

 Bees, Cyclop. ; Thwaites Enum. 85. Hedysarum conjugatum, WUld. Sp. PL iii. 1178. 

 Plains of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



Var. 2. Walkeri {Am. Fugill. 12, sp.); leaflets oblong ^-1 in. long, ^bracts 

 downy at the edge, pod scarcely exserted from the bracts, joints small reticulato- 

 venose with only a few small bristles near the edge. Walp. Rep. i. 726 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 85. — Ceylon, Walker, Thwaites. 



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Undershru'bs. Leaves rigid, pinnately S-foliolate* Flozvers inconspicuous^. 

 in small dense lieads. Calyx with an elongated filiform tube, and 5 teeth^ 

 of "which the upper 4 are subconnate. Floivers polygamous, the fertile 

 ones often apetalous. Petals inserted at the throat of the calyx-tube ; standard 

 orbiciUar; keel subrostrate. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers dimorphous, Ovnnj 

 subsessile at the base of the calyx-tube ; style long, filiform, the lower part per- 

 sistent, sti^a minute capitate. Pod with 1-2 flattened rugose joints.— 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 15. Cosmopolitan, tropical. 



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I. S. mncronata, Willd.-, DC. Prodr. ii. 318; Wall. Cat. fi664; 



W. ^ A. Prodr. 218 ; Bedd Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 294. AracMs fruticosa, Retz. ', 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 282. Iledysanun hamatum, Bunn. Fl- 

 Ind. 167 ; Fl. Zeyl. t. 106, fig. 2. 



Shores of Western Peninsula and Ceylon. — Distrib. Cape, Trop. Africa, Malay 



isles. 



A low diifuse undershrub, with terete pubescent branches. Stiptdes scariose, 

 adnate downwards to the petiole; leaflets ^^ in. long, pale green, rigidly coriaceou^r 

 oblong or lanceolate ; under-side a little pubescent at first. Flowers 1 or few, ij^ 

 sessile terminal heads ; bracts persistent, striated, pubescent. Corolla A in., exsertea. 

 Pod 1-2-jointed, tipped with the falcate indurated lower part of the style. 



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88. SMXTKZA, Ait. 



Herbs or underslu'ubs. Leajlefs many, small, sensitive, loaf-rachis endiBg" 

 in a bristle ; stipules scariose, with large auricles. Floioers racemose or axil- 

 laiy. Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the lips usually entire. Corolla exserted ; 9*^^ 

 dai-d orbicidar- keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary linear, manj'-ovuled ; 'style inciu'ved, filiform, stigma minute 

 capitate. Pod of few or many minute flattened or turgid joints, folded together 

 inside the calyx. — Disxeib. Species 20-30, spread through the tropics of the oW 



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* Qalyx riffid, its veins close, parallel^ simple, 



1. S. sensitive, Ait.; DC. Prodr. ii. 323; stems not bristly, leafl^t^ 

 small 4-20, flowers in short simple racemes, calyx-lips equal, corolla y^ll^"^' 

 Moxh. Hort. Beng. 5G ; Fl. Ind. iii. 342 ; Salisb. Par. t. 92 ; WalL Cat. 5003, et 



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