184 LEGUMINOS.E. 



Legume linear, subsessile or shortly stipitate, impressed along both margins, tardily de- 

 hiscent : seeds separated by spurious dissepiments. — Virgate shrubs or suffrutescent herbs : 

 leaves abruptly pinnate : leaflets often irritable ; racemes axillary. 



34. S. se^yptiaca, Pers. Stem shrubby, striate; leaflets 10-18-jugal, oblong-linear, 

 glabrous, glaucescent ; racemes 3-1 2-flowered, as long as, or a little shorter than the leaves ; 

 calyx thrice shorter than the corolla : teeth triangular ; standard dotted with purple ; legume 

 torulose, compressed, at length subcylindrieal, the valves becoming convex : margins 

 tumid.— Cav. Ic. t. 314.— S. picta, Pers. {non Lindl.). S. punctata, DC— Leaflets 8"'-12'" 

 long, 3'" broad, not irritable; flowers 6'", legume 5"-7" long ; corolla yellow. — Hab. Ja- 

 maica !, March, Wite., on the seashore; [Guiana!, tropical Africa !, Egypt !, East Indies]. 



35. S. aculeata, Pers. Stem suffrutescent, prickly, cylindrical ; leaflets 20-50-jugal, 

 linear, glabrous, glaucescent ; racemes peduncled, few-flowered, about half as long as the 

 leaves ; calyx thrice shorter than the corolla : teeth unequal, anterior short, subulate, pos- 

 terior triangular ; standard dotted with purple ; legume compressed, at length biconvex, 

 not torulose, or slightly so, sharply beaked, slightly margined on both manrinst — Jacq. 

 Ic. Rar. t. 564.— S. muricata, Mac/.! S. occidentalis, 0, Gr. in PI. Can'*.— Leaflets 6"'-8'" 

 long, V"-l± m broad, irritable; flowers 6'", legume 10"-12" long; corolla yellow. -Hab. 

 Jamaica!, Mac/., along roadsides ; Antigua!, Wullschl.; S.Vincent!, Guild, [tropical Africa, 

 East Indies]. 



36. S. sericea, DC. Stem suffrutescent, unarmed, cylindrical, pubescent, leaflets 

 \2-20-jugal, oblong-li?iear ; racemes short, few-flowered, 4 times or more exceeded by the 

 leaves ; calyx thrice shorter than the corolla : teeth subulate ; standard dotted with purple ; 

 legume compressed, at leugth biconvex, not torulose, shortly beaked, slightly depressed, 

 tumid on both margins. — S. occidentalis, Gr. in PI. Carib. — Leaflets irritable, 8"'-l 2'" long, 

 2'''-3'" broad, blunt or retuse-mucronulate ; flowers 6"', legume 8"-10" long. — Hab. An- 

 tigua !, Wullschl. ; [Guadeloupe !] . 



37. S. occidentalis, Pers. Stem angular, suffrutescent or shrubby, glabrous ; leaflets 

 12-20-jugal, oblong-linear ; racemes short, few-flowered, 4 times or more exceeded by the 

 leaves ; calyx 5 times shorter than the corolla : teeth subulate, short ; standard dotted with 

 purple : legume compressed, at length biconvex, not torulose, shortly beaked, slightly de- 

 pressed, tumid on both margins. — Plum. Ed. Burm. 1. 125. f. 1 : the flowers are not " hir- 

 sute" in the figure, but merely dotted. — Bot. Beg. t. 873. — S. picta, Lind. — Leaflets 6'" 

 long, 2'" broad, slightly irritable ; flowers 10"', legume 8"-10" long.— Hab. Trinidad (Bot. 

 Beg.); [Cuba !, Guadeloupe !]. 



38. S. exasperata, Kth. Stem angular, suffrutescent or shrubby, glabrous; leaflets 

 25-50-jugal, linear; racemes peduncled, 3-8-flowered, about half as long as the leaves; 



* calyx 4 times shorter than the corolla: teeth subequal, triangular; standard not dotted; 

 legume compressed, at length biconvex, slightly torulose above, channelled on both margins. 

 — Leaflets longer, and flowers larger than iu S. aculeata, commonly unarmed ; leaflets 

 10"'-12'" long, W" broad, irritable ; flowers 10"'-12"\ legume 8"-10" long.— Hab. Ja- 

 maica (Benlh.); Trinidad!, Cr. ; [Guatemala, Guiana!, Venezuela, Brazil!]. 



Subtribe 4. HEDYSAREJE. — Legume lomentaceous, i. e. transversely divided into 

 several one-seeded joints, rarely reduced to a single indehiscent joint. 



11. ^SCHYNOMENE, L. 



Calyx bilabiate, or 5-fid, bibracteolate. Standard roundish, entire: keel cymbiform, 

 its petals distinct at the base. Staminal column divided into 2 pentandrous bundles, or 

 entire. Lomentum compressed, stipitate : joints many or several. — Shrubs or herbs j leaves 

 irritable, impari-pinnate : stipules scarious ; racemes axillary, usually few-flowered. 



39. JE. sensitiva, Sw. Shrubby or suffrutescent, glabrous (or glandular) ; leaflets 

 15-20-jugal, oblong-linear, unineroed: stipules semisagittate ; racemes few-flowered ; calyx 

 bilabiate ; lomentum long -stipitate, straight, 9-6-jointed : joints quadrate, rectilinear on 

 the superior, slightly curved on the inferior margin. — Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 149. f. 2. — 

 Branched, 6' high ; flowers whitish, 3"' long ; lomentum-joints 2V"-3"' diam. — Hab. Do- 

 minica!, Imr., S.Lucia; Trinidad!, Lockh. Cr., in swamps; [Guadeloupe!, Panama!, Ecuador!, 

 Venezuela!, Guiana !, Brazil!, tropical Africa]. 



