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Erythrina speciosa Andr., ELEGANT SWORD-FLOWER, West Indian, planted 

 for ornament, resembles E, Corallodendron, but its leaflets are 3-lobed and 

 long-acuminate. 



Erythrina indica Lam., INDIAN SWORD-FLOWER, East Indian, recorded by 

 Jones, and by H. B. Small, is a large tree with a prickly trunk, the 3 leaflets 

 4'-6' long, the flowers about 2J' long, in dense racemes, the oblique calyx 

 spathaceous, splitting along the back. 



Erythrina caffra Thunb., CAPE SWORD-FLOWER, South African, of which 

 H. B. Small records a large tree on grounds adjoining Eosebank, Hamilton, 

 prior to 1901, is a prickly tree with ovate, glabrous leaflets, the scarlet, 

 racemed flowers about 2' long, the calyx tomentulose. Lefroy records having 

 raised plants from Cape seed. 



Dalbergia Sissco Roxb., Sissoo TREE, East Indian, experimentally planted 

 at, the Public Garden, St. Georges, in 1914, has pinnate leaves of 5 broadly 

 elliptic to obovate leaflets 3 '-4' long and axillary panicles- of small, white 

 flowers. 



Onobrychis sativa L., SAINFOIN, of Europe and Asia, a perennial herb 

 l-2 high, with pinnate leaves of numerous oblong leaflets, and rather dense 

 spikes of pink flowers on peduncles longer than the leaves, mentioned by 

 Lefroy as said to be occasionally grown, but not seen by him, and recorded 

 by H. B. Small as ' ' common along roadsides, flowering in July, ' ' has not 

 been observed by me in Bermuda. [Hedysarum Onobrychis of Lefroy and of 

 H. S. Small.] 



Calpurnia aurea (Lam.) Baker, GOLDEN CALPURNIA, South African, a 

 shrub or small tree up to about 15 high, seen in a fine specimen at the 

 Agricultural Station in 1913, has unevenly pinnate leaves of 9-21 oval, ob- 

 tuse or emarginate entire leaflets about 1' long, glabrous above, slightly pu- 

 bescent beneath, bright yellow, flowers about V long in racemes, followed by 

 flat, linear, subulate-tipped pods 2'-3' long. \Virgilia aurea, Lam.; Calpurnia 

 lasiogyne E. Meyer.] 



Dolicholus praecatorius (Humb.) Rose, SPOTTED DOLICHOLUS, Mexican, 

 a vine, climbing to a length of 30, with 3-foliolate, pubescent leaves, the 

 ovate thin entire acuminate leaflets l'-2' long, the small yellow flowers in 

 loose racemes, the short, flattened, 2-seeded pods about *' long, the subglobose 

 seeds scarlet with a black spot, was seen at Wood Haven in 1914. [Glycine 

 praecatoria Humb.] 



Psoralea glandulosa L., CHILEAN PSOEALEA, of western South America, 

 a shrub with 3-foliolate, black-punctate leaves, and small blue-purple flowers 

 in narrow racemes, was grown by Lefroy in 1874 and he records it as doing 

 well up to 1877. 



Hardenbergia Comptoniana Lindl., COMPTON'S HARDENBERGIA, Australian, 

 a woody vine, the leaves with 3 or 5 leaflets 14'-5' long, the small violet flowers 

 in racemes, the pod leathery, 1-J' long, was raised from seed by Lefroy and 

 flowered at Mt. Langton as recorded by him. 



Anthyllis Barba-Jovis L., JOVE'S BEARD, of southern Europe, recorded 

 by Lefroy as introduced in 1874 and living in 1877, is a tall, pinnate-leaved 

 shrub, the foliage silky tomentose, the light yellow flowers capitate. 



Lotus jacobaeus L., CAPE VERDE LOTUS, described by Reade as frequently 

 cultivated as a garden flower, and occasional in cultivated grounds as a weed 

 and said by H. B. Small to be "not common yet, but seems thriving" was not 

 known to Lefroy as Bermudian, nor is it otherwise recorded, nor has it been 

 found by recent collectors. It is a low shrubby plant with 3-foliolate leaves, 

 the sessile leaflets oblanceolate to linear, the showy flowers capitate on long 

 peduncles, the standard dark purple. 



