Stylosanthes. | LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) 997 
of the calyx-tube, subsessile, 2-3-ovuled, abortive. Fuartite: Calya, 
corolla, and stamens none. Ovary on a quickly elongating, rigid, re- 
flexed (pedicel-like) torus, stipitate, unilocular, with 2-3 anatropous * 
ovules, Style very short, Stigma dilated. Legume (buried under ground) 
oblong, thick, reticulated, indehiscent, subtorulose, 2—3-seeded. Embryo 
straight, with thick cotyledons. Endl. Gen. 6601. DC. Prod. 2, p. 474. 
A small, herbaceous plant, said to come originally from tropical America, but now 
common in all the warmer parts of the world, and much cultivated by half-civilized 
man, for its seeds ; the common earth-nut, The name was given by Pliny to a plant 
with neither stem nor leaves, but all root. It is now applied to one without proper 
flower-stalk, or axis of inflorescence. 
1. A. hypogeea (Linn, Sp. 1040); DC. lc. H. & Z. 1 1696. j 
Has. Coast land about Port Natal, Dr. Sutherland! (Herb. Hk.) ne WAAL co 
Stems herbaceous, diffuse, 1-2 feet long, pubescent. Leaves abruptly bijugate, TA /63 
i 
the petiole with two adnate, subulate stipules at base. Leaflets obovate-obtuse, 
penni-nerved, becoming glabrous, 1-14 inch long, } inch wide. Flowers solitary, 
axillary ; the sterile from the upper, the fertile from the lowest axils. The stipe of 
the ovary rapidly elongates after fertilization, and forces the young fruit under the 
soil, where it ripens. 
XLII. STYLOSANTHES, L. 
Flowers polygamous, very generally sterile. Calya-tube very long 
and slender ; limb deeply bilabiate, the upper lip 4-fid, the lower elon- 
gate, entire. Oorolla inserted in the throat of the calyx ; vexillum 
roundish; ale oblong, free; carina incurved, rostrate, shorter than the 
ale, Stamens monadelphous, with a split tube. Ovary sessile, in the 
base of the calyx-tube (commonly abortive) ; the style filiform, elon- 
gate. Ferrite: Calyx, corolla, and stamens none. Ovary subsessile, 
erect, 2-ovuled; style short, hooked. Legume sessile, mostly 2-jointed ; 
joints compressed, the lower often sterile, the upper one-seeded, sepa- 
rating. Endl. Gen. 6606. DC, Prod. 2, p. 317. 
Weedlike herbs or undershrubs, frequently viscid-pubescent, common throughout 
the warmer regions of the globe. Leaves pinnately-trifoliolate. Stipules adnate, 
striate. Flowers crowded in dense, terminal or axillary spikes, each in the axil of 
a leafy bract, pedicellate ; or solitary, bi-tribracteolate, or In pairs, one perfect, the 
other barren. Name crvaos, a style, and avéos a flower ; a flower with a very long 
style. 
1. 8. setosa (Harv.); suffruticose, dwarf, rigidly hispid and pubes- 
cent ; leaflets oblongo-lanceolate, subpungent-mucronate, pubescent, 
rib-striate beneath, rigid; stipules subpungent ; ji. unknown, Zey. ! 404. 
* Has. Aapjes River, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) z 2 
Reet see ie cee a tahatnagle, ese, 6-3 iacken Mighs coushly 
Leaflets 6-7 lines long, 24 wide, longer than the petiole ; the terminal 1-2 lines re- 
moved. Nerves prominent beneath. ‘ 
XLIIL DESMODIUM, DC. Ree 
Calyx 5-parted or deeply bilabiate, the upper lip bifid, the lower trie 
fid. Veaitlum roundish Pi oblong, longer than the straight, o 
carina, Stamens diadelphous, 9 I, Ovary sessile, many 
Legume several-jointed, the joints compressed, one-seeded, membre 
or rigid, separating at maturity, Seeds compressed, reniform. Lndt. Gen. 
6615. DC. Prod. 2, p.325, Nicolsonia, DC. L. ¢. E. Mey.! Comm; . 12. 
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