Zornia.. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 295 
8—12-jugate, oblong, mucronate ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; 
flowers racemose, patent ; calyx-lobes equalling the campanulate tube ; 
legume elongate, compressed, glabrous, on a stipe longer than the calyx. 
Harv. Thes. Cap. t. 82. 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke § Zeyher. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
This belongs to the section “ Galegiformes,” and is near A. graveolens, tigrensis, 
venosus, and abyssinicus, the three last natives of North Africa. Root annual. Stems 
12-18 inches high, slightly flexuous, terete, pale. Lower stipules uncial, 5-6 lines 
wide, upper smaller and narrower. Leaflets 6-7 lines long, 2-3 wide, varying from — 
oblong to sublanceolate, pale green, thin. Flowers small and slender, scarcely 4 lines 
long. Calyx-tube a line long, the segments narrow-lanceolate. Petals subequal or 
the ale rather shorter. Legume on a 2-3 line long stipe, uncial, 24 lines wide, com- 
pletely bilocular, slenderly netted-veined and thin. 
XXXIX. ZORNIA, Gmel. 
Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip obtuse, emarginate, the lower trifid. 
Corolla inserted in the base of the calyx ; the vexillum roundish, with 
reflexed sides ; ale oblong; carina of lunate petals, cohering in the 
middle. Stamens monadelphous ; the alternate anthers small. Legume 
sessile, compressed, 3—6-jointed ; the joints roundish, often hispid. 
DC. Prod. 2, p. 316. Endl. Gen. 6599. 
Tropical or subtropical herbs or suffrutices. Leaves digitate, of 2-4, pellucid-dotted 
leaflets. Stipules broad, rigid, peltate ; the upper broader, forming bracts, which 
enclose the sessile flowers. Flowers minute, in terminal or lateral, lax pseudo-spikes. 
Named from J. Zorn, an apothecary of Kempten, in Bavaria, and author of Jcones 
Plantarum medicalium. 
1, Z. tetraphylla (Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. t. 41); stems diffuse ; leaves 
2~4-foliolate ; leaflets lanceolate or linear ; bracts ovate, acute, ciliolate, 
5—nerved. DC.1. c. 317, Hedysarum tetraphyllum. Thunb. Cap. 595. 
Zey.! 467. pee 
Var a, Capensis; leaflets broadly lanceolate ; legumes reticulate-seabrid. Z. Capen- 
sis, Pers. E. § Z.1 1660. E. Mey./ Comm. 122, — : 
Var. §. linearis; leaflets very narrow-linear ; legumes echinulate, Z. linearis, 
E. Mey tl.e. * 
Has. Eastern districts and Port Natal, common. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
A slender, wiry plant, 6-12 inches high, glabrous or variably pubescent. Leaflets 
generally 4, but varying to 3 and 2, 7-8 lines to 1-14 inch long, and } line to 2-3 
lines wide. Stipules and bracts prolonged at base below their insertion ; the latter 
enclosing the small yellow flowers, as it between a pair of “ winkers.” The spines on 
the legumes vary much ; sometimes they are mere points, sometimes 1-2 lines long. 
_ XL. ZSCHYNOMENE, L. 
Calyx bibracteate at base, more or less bilabiate or bipartite, the 
upper lip entire or bifid, the lower either entire, tritid, or tridentate. 
Vexillum subrotund or oblong, simple at base ; ale oblong, equalling or 
exceeding the incurved carina. Stamens 10, in two equal parcels of 5 
each. Ovary stipitate. Zegume stipitate, compressed, exserted, trans- — 
versely articulated, several-jointed. DC. Prod.2,p.320. Endl. Gen.6605. 
Tropical and subtropical herbs or shrubs. Leaves impari-pinnate (rarely pari-pin- — 
nate) Penlet or plur- juga, bistipulate. Peduncles tase or mT axillary, 
rarely terminal. FI. yellow or reddish. Name from a xvvopa, to be modest ; one 
of the species has sensitive leaves. : eee “4 
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