736 FABACEAE 
69. SAGOTIA Dueh. & Walp. Perennial diffuse or prostrate herbs. 
Leaflets 3. prae much reduced, of 2—4 flowers in a cluster, axillary to or 
opposite a leaf, or flower solitary. Calyx 
2-lipped, the upper — partly united. 
Corolla blue, purple, white: standard 
ee a broad long- amt blade: blades of 
wing- yam angled at the base. Loment 
Pads ——Three species, natives of the 
Old World, the following perhaps also native 
in the 
1. S. triflora (L.). Duch. & Walp. Ste tem pro- 
cumbent or TE o nt, the branches 
more or less elongate, but closely creeping: 
m 
ar m. long, 
purplish-pink, e a o. narrowed into a long claw: androecium 3—4 mm. long: 
loment-joints 2-2.5 wide, scarcely longer. [Desmodium triflo rum DO. 
M eibomia pin Kuntze]- -Pinelands, roadsides, and cult. Eben pen. pem 
W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.)—Resembles Lespedeza striata in | habit Used as 
lawn- -eover. 
70. ALYSICARPUS Neck. Herbs. Leaflet 1. Racemes terminal, few- 
flowered. Calyx narrow, 2-lipped; lobes narrow, the 2 of the upper lip more 
united and shorter than the 3 of the lower lip. Corolla purple or blue: stand- 
ard with a broad blade longer than the claw: blades of the keel- and wing- 
petals with a rounded shoulder at the base, that of the keel the less promi- 
nent, rather long-clawed. Ovary slender. Loment, several-jointed, with or 
without eonstrietions.—A bout 16 species, natives of the Old World tropies.— 
Sum.-fall or all year 
Calyx-lobes ue those of the upper lip united about half-way: du with 
sd 
i os sutur A. vaginalis. 
Calyx-lobes acumi fiat those of the upper lip anes to near the 
ips: loment deeply constricted between the joints 2. A.rugosus. 
1. A. vaginalis (L.) DC. Stem s branched at the base, the slender a 
more or less diffuse, up to 1 ong: blades of the leaflets of various shapes, 
nt, D 
"uu pel em. long, ead pois e alyx 
4.5—5. long; low = bes apne 
lanceolate, "finely striate, pt inate rolla 
purple; ds reds broadly mutis obovate 
.0—06. pu loment 1.5-2.5 em. long 
. linear, ue r the joints truncate, : reticu- 
a Eid "our than wide.—(FALSE- 
WORT.)—Low  pinelands and waste- 
pees pen. Fla.—(W. I., 
e A. rugosus (Willd.) ps Stem more or 
diffusely branched, 
lados of the jd elliptie 1 to lanceolate or 
niu N 2-7 em. long, reticulate: 
calyx 6-7 mm. long; lower pod lanceolate, 
