798 FABACEAE 
3. A. americana L. Plant up to 2 m. tall: leaflets mostly 21—61; udis vid 
linear, 9-9 mm. long, mueronate and ciliate-denticulate near the a apex: calyx- 
ong; 8 a in 
obovate above the auricle: pod Straight on one edge, scalloped on the other, 
the sections nearl half-orbicular, pubescent and often n warty on the faces.— 
Waste-places, road-sides, and ditches, M pen. Fla.—Spr—sum. 
63. SECULA Small. Herbs with prostrate stems and branches. Leafiets 
the narrower blades and abruptly bent. Loment few-jointed, the sections half- 
orbicular.—About 10 species, most abundant in tropical America.-—Spr.—fall 
d mostly i Mn prominently reticulate beneath: loment viscid- Doe CEDE 
joints about 5 lon 1. S. viscidula, 
PA n SAn 11-28; „blades not reticulate: loment not viscid ; 
joints about 3 mm 2. S. Hystric. 
1. S. viscidula (Miehx.) Small. Plant sticky- por the branches aes 
dm. lon 1g, w oe an a spreading hairs: leaflets 5—7, or rarely more 
t 
mm. long: ovary a y pubescent: 
loment-joints about 5 mm. long and 4 mm. 
wide, T with EROR viscid hairs and 
long stiff hairs. [Aeschynomene viscidula 
S. Hystrix (Poir. Small Plant fine 
pubescen t, the branehes mostly less than 1 
EU m 
and wi ewer long spreading ha f 
lets 17—25 arely fewer; blades narrowly 
elliptic to linear-elliptic, 3-5 mm. long, not reticulate, eae dd 
beneath with lax hairs: lateral lobes of the d ealyx-lip acute andard 
4.5-5 mm. long: ovary sparingly de. loment-joints about 3n mm. long 
and 2.5 mm. wide, m with short crisped hairs.—Waste-places and road- 
ca. W Fla. Nat. of trop. Am 
64. ARACHIS L. Perennial low herbs. Leaflets few: blades entire. 
Pores solitary in the lower leaf-axils. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip broad, 
3-lobed at the the lower lip narrow and elongate. Corolla yellow or 
whitish: standard very broad, notched at the apex: wings with relatively ee 
and broad blades: d -petals much smaller than the wings, auricled. od sub 
terranean, turgid, constricted between the seeds.—Six or seven species, ve 
South American. 
1. A. hypogaea L. Stem and branches decumbent: leaves rather numerous ; 
stipules e anc e acuminate; leaflets usually 4, the blades elliptie to 
