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I l.oli.V UK JAMAI' A 



Sfylosanthes 



300-900 ft.; Two Mile Wood, St. Catherine; J fun-is \ Fl. Jam. G630, 

 11,764, 12,406. Cuba, Mexico, tropical S. America. 



Stem diffuse or suberect, much branched, woody at base, 2-10 dm. 1. 

 Leaflets "5-1 cm. 1., to 5 mm. br., viscid-puberulous on both sides. Bracts 

 as in S. hamata, bearing in the axil a flower, but no bristle-like stalk ; 

 bracteoles, one lanceolate, one linear, 3'5 mm. 1. Calyx, stalk-like tube 

 4 mm. 1., limb about 2 mm. 1. Corolla orange-coloured ; standard 4 mm. 1. 

 wings and keel nearly as long. Pod about 4 mm. 1. 



9. ZORNIA J. F. Gmel. 



Leaves digitately 2- or 4-foliolate, usually with pellucid dots. 

 Stipules with a basilar appendage. Flowers distant in spikes or 



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Fig. 9. Zornia diphylla Pers. 



A, Upper portion of branch, with leaves 



and flower spikes x H. 



B, Standard x 3. 



C, Wing x 3. 



D, Keel X 3. 



E, Flower with corolla removed x ''>. 



F, Upper portion of staininal sheath more 



highly magnified. 



G, Ripe pod with one of the hracts re- 



moved x 3 ; s, persistent staminal 

 sheath. 

 H, Bract slightly magnified. 



solitary ; each flower enclosed by 2 bracts (stipules of abortive 

 bracts). Calyx hyaline, ciliolate, 2 upper lobes united forming 

 a broad emarginate upper lip, 2 lateral much smaller, lower 

 equalling the upper lip. Standard roundish. Stamens 10, all 

 united into a closed sheath ; anthers alternately longer, subbasi- 

 fixed, and short, dorsifixed. Pod compressed ; joints not 

 opening. 



Species 11, all American, of which one grows in N. America 

 and also at the Cape, one (Z. dipliylla] polymorphic, widely 



