28 FLORA OF JAMAICA J-Ischyrioni' 



-- : stipules ovate, many-nerved, 3-5 mm. 1. JR. brasiliana 

 DC. Prodr. //. l\'2'2 (1825); Benth. torn. nt. 68; Gr!.^l>. Inc. <//. 

 Senna spuria minima etc. Houston u NS. Cassia biflora Miller 

 Gard. Di.-t. ed. * (1768). C. Houstoniana Collad. Hist. Casts. 1 

 (1816). Hedysarum brasilianum Pair. Enajc. ri. 448 (1804). 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Ifoiistoun ! Cuba, St. Lucia, Trinidad, tropical continental America. 



Stem shrubby, 2-3 ft. high, diffuse. Leaves 2-3 cm. 1. ; leaflets ciliate, 

 glabrous on upper surface, with a few adprcssed hairs beneath, -8-1*2 cm. 1., 

 4-6 mm. br. Inflorescence laxly paniculate, several-flowered. Flowers 

 about 7 mm. 1. Pod 1-4-jointed, contracted between the joints ; joints 

 semicircular-roundish, 3-4 mm. in diani. 



Miller states in his Gardener's Dictionary that " This grows naturally 

 in Jamaica, from whence the seeds were sent me." A specimen with the 

 name in his own handwriting and marked " Jamaica, 1730, Houstoun," 

 is in Herb. Mus. Brit. But we have not seen any other specimen collected 

 in Jamaica. 



8. STYLOSANTHES Sw. 



Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules united to the leaf- 

 stalk. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, forminsr dense heads 



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or spikes ; flowers subsessile at the axil of a leaf or of a 2-lobed 

 bract, sometimes solitary with 2 or 3 bracteoles, sometimes with 

 a bristle-like abortive axis. Calyx-tube long, stalk-like ; 4 upper 

 lobes united, lowest distinct, narrow, or, the 2 upper lobes united 

 nearly to the apex, the remaining 3 distinct (in S. Jiamata). 

 Standard roundish. Stamens 1 0, all united into a closed sheath ; 

 anthers alternately longer, subbasifixed, and short, versatile. 

 Pod compressed, apex with a hooked beak, the persistent lower 

 part of the style ; joints 2, or 1 (with the lower abortive). 



Species 25 to 30, natives of Asia, Africa, N. America, West 

 Indies, but chiefly of S. America. 



Not viscous; leaflets lanceolate ; beak of pod as long as joint 1. S.hamata. 

 Viscous-pubescent; leaflets elliptical ; beak very short ....... 2. S. viscosa. 



1. S.hamata Taub. in Verb. Bot. Brand, xxxii 22 (1890); 

 pubescent or subglabrous ; leaflets lanceolate ; beak about as long 

 as the pod. Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 288. S. procumbens Siv. Prodr. 

 108 (1788), in Svensk Vet, Abaci Handl, 1789, 297, 1. 11, /. 1 & Fl. 

 Ind. Occ. 1282; Macf. Jam. i. 262 ; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 188. 

 Anonis non spinosa minor &c. Sloane Cat. 75 & Hist. i. 187, 

 /. 119, /. 2. Trifolium procumbens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 298. 

 Hedysarum hamatum L. Syst. 1170 (1759) (excl. syn. Burm.), 

 Amcen. v. 403 & % PL ed. 2, 1056 (excl. syn. Burm.). (Fig. 8.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Pencil Flower. 



St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane, Herb. iii. 94 ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 

 76! Houstoun \ Wrightl Brougliton\ Browne; Bancroft ! common in 



