Alysicarpus LEOUMINOS.K 41 



in Hermann's Herb., show it to be In<li<i<>f< r<> ecliinata Willd. 

 This has been overlooked by Urban in Symb. Ant., where the 

 above species is cited as A. nummularifolius. 



In fl. Oct.-March ; coast of Trelawney, Purdic ! Hope grounds ; King's 

 House grounds; Cokely, near Castleton, 600 ft. ; Harris I Golden Valley, 

 500 ft. ; Thompson ! Constant Spring, Box Walk, Port Morant, Hitchcock; 

 Fl. Jam. 6808, 6954, 8<JoU, 12, 159. --Naturalized in West Indies and 

 Guiana ; native in tropics of Old \Vorld. 



Stems creeping, with ascending branches 1-3 ft. 1. Leaflets of different 

 forms often on the same plant, generally elliptical or round, some- 

 times oblong or lanceolate, base cordate, 3 mm. -4 cm. 1. Raceme x 

 with 6-12 flowers, generally crowded. Calyx 5 mm. 1. Corolla rosy 

 or pale purple. Pod wrinkled, 1-2 cm. 1. ; joints 5-7, 2-2 -5 mm. 1. Seeds 

 about 1 mm. ].] 



5. Low-growing herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, without 

 stipels. Flowers, 1, or more, crowded in the lower axils. 

 Stamens 10 (or 9), all united into a closed sheath. Pod 

 burying itself in the earth, not splitting open. 



[ARACHIS L. 



Leaves with '2 pairs of leaflets. Stipules adherent to the 

 leaf-stalk. Calyx, tube very long, stalk-like, 4 upper lobes 

 united, lowest distinct, narrow. Standard roundish. Anthers 

 alternately long, subbasifixed and short, versatile. Pod some- 

 what constricted between the seeds, but not jointed, continuous 

 within. Seeds 13. 



Species 9, of which 8 are Brazilian, and 1 (A. hypogsea) of 

 uncertain origin, cultivated throughout the tropics. 



A. hypogsea L. Sp. PI 741 (1753); Writ/lit Mem. 189; 

 Macf. Jam. i. 322 ; Benth. in FL Bras. xv. pi. 1, 86, /. 23, /. 1 ; 

 Griseb. FL Br. W. Incl 189 ; BentL & Trim. Ned. PL t. 7-". ; 

 Url. Si/ml. Ant. ir. 289. Arachidna indire etc. Sluane Cot. 7_ A: 

 ///*/. i. 184. Sena tetraphylla &c. Phil: PJii/t. t. 60, /. 2 

 it Aim. 311. 



Ground Nut, Earth Nut, Pea Nut, Monkey Nut. 



Cult. Sloanc Herb. iii. 85! Wriylit ! J/ , Cultivated in the 



tropics, probably native of Brazil. 



Annual, with spreading hairs on branches and petioles. ,S7cm thick, 

 erect, often 1 ft. high; brandies shortlyprostrate then a^-eiiding. J. 

 obovate or broadly oblong, apex rounded with a minute muri\>. ciliate 

 with a few hairs, glabrous on upper surfae<', |.iibese.-nt or glabrescent 

 beneath, 2*5-5 cm. 1. ; petiole 5-7 cm. 1. ( tube 2 1 em. 1.. Inn!) 



about '5 cm. 1. Corolla, golden yellow; standard about 1 cm. 1. l\>d (an 

 inch or more below the ground) at the end of a stiff stalk, 5-7 cm. L, 

 which has grown beneath the ovary after the fall of the flower, -J-l cm. 1. 

 Seeds edible, rich in oil.] 



