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lations, which are ovate, subcompressed, withdrawn within the calyx. 
—Shrubby herbs. 
A small genus spread through the Tropics of the Old World. 
1. U. picta, Desv.; DC. Prod. ii. 324. Stems erect, terete, stout 
but scarcely shrubby, 3-7 ft. high, densely grey-pubescent. Stipules 
3-3 in. long, ovate acuminate, scarious, persistent. Petioles 1—2 in. 
long, the lower leaves entire, roundish or ovate, the upper ones pinnate, 
with 2-4 pairs of leaflets, and a terminal one, which are linear, 4—8 in. 
long, 4-4 in. broad, stipellate, subcoriaceous, often variegated, upper 
surface subscabrous, lower finely pubescent with the veins and veinlets 
pale and raised. Flowers in dense terminal racemes sometimes more 
than a foot long, 3-3 in. broad. Bracts ovate, acuminate, scarious, 
ciliated, equalling the hispid pedicel, which turns completely round after 
Howering. Calyx 4 in. deep, cleft nearly to the base, densely hispid. 
Corolla purple, half as long again as the calyx. Pod 3—6-jointed, the 
seeds soon elabrous, bright-polished, greyish-white.— Hedysarum pictum, 
Jacq. Ie. Rar. iii. t. 567. Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 364. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning, Vogel! Barter! Irving! Sierra 
Leone, Afzelius ! 
Nile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant! Banks of White Nile, Schweinfurth. - 
Lower Guinea. Ambaca and highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! 
A common East Indian species, extending to North Australia. 
46. ALYSICARPUS, Neck.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 522. 
Calyx deeply cleft, the lobes rigid, glumaceous, the three lower ones 
subequal, the two upper ones connate. Standard orbicular or obovate, 
harrowed into aclaw ; wings obliquely oblong, adherent to the keel; 
keel slightly incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free, the rest connate. 
Ovary sessile or short-stalked, multiovulate ; style filiform, incurved at 
the apex, with a broadly capitate stigma. Pod subterete, equal or con- 
stricted between the articulations, which are roundish or truncate at the 
ends and indehiscent.—Diffuse herbs with the leaves simple in all our 
Species, 
A small genus, diffused widely through the Tropics of the Old World. 
Calyx not ; joi h d. 
ot exceeding the first joint - tot 15d wlio. 
Joints deeply constricted 2. ae ee vilife 
oints sakshy oiieieted: (a EO a ee te a ee es. 
alyx equalling at least two or three joints of the pod. 
Articulations scarcely wrinkled on the face. : 
Largest leaves 15-18 lines long . . 3, A. ferrugineus. 
argest leaves 6-7 lineslong. . . .« . 4. A. Leyheri. 
Articulations much wrinkled on the face. 
5. A. porrectus. 
Calyx-lobes linear, not imbricated 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate, imbricated . . . - - + + + + 
1. A, monilifer, DC. Prod. ii. 353. Stem annual or biennial, dif- 
fusely branched, tough, slender, slightly silky. Stipules landeolate, 
Pate, scarious, striated, about equalling the petioles, which are 2-3 lines 
. 6: TUgOsUS. 
