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Leaves 2-3.5 dm. long, short-petioled ; leaflets 10-30 pairs, oblong, 2-4 un. 

 long, obtuse or retuse at the apex, inequilaterally narrowed at the base; 

 racemes 2-5-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calyx 2-2.5 cm. long, its broadly 

 triangular lobes much shorter than the tube; corolla red to white, 6-10 cm. 

 long; pod 24 dm. long, about 8 mm. wide, beaked at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base into a long stout stipe. 



Waste places, spontaneous after cultivation, Fortune and Acklin's Islands: 

 a native of the East Indies, spontaneous after cultivation in Florida, the West 

 Indies and Yucatan. Agati. Flamingo-bill. 



9. STYLOSANTHES Sw. Prodr. 108. 1788. 



Perennial herbs, mainly with villous or viscid pubescence, 3-foliolate leaves, 

 and yellow terminal or axillary spicate or capitate flowers. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate, its teeth membranous, the 4 upper ones more or less united. Petals 

 and stamens inserted at or near the summit of the tube; standard orbicular; 

 wings oblong; keel curved, beaked. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers alternately 

 longer and shorter. Ovary nearly sessile; ovules 2 or 3 ; style filiform. Pod 

 sessile, flattened, 1-2-jointed, reticulate, dehiscent at the summit. [Greek, 

 column-flower, alluding to the column-like calyx-tube.] About 30 species, of 

 warm and temperate regions. Type species: Stylosanthes procumbens Sw. 



Foliage not viscid: leaflets oblong, nearly glabrous. 1. 8. hamata. 



Foliage viscid ; leaflets elliptic, pubescent. 2. S. viscosa. 



1. Stylosanthes hamata (L.) Taubert, Monogr. Stylos. 22. 1889. 



Hedysarum hamatum L. Syst. ed. 10: 1170. 1759. 

 Stylosanthes procumbens Sw. Prodr. 108. 1788. 



Somewhat pubescent, branched, the branches spreading or ascending, 0.5-5 

 dm. long. Stipules adnate to the petioles, with free subulate apices. Leaflets 

 oblong or narrowly oblong, longer than the petioles, 17 mm. long or less, nearly 

 glabrous, acute at both ends, strongly pinnately veined, mucronate ; flowers 

 about 6 mm. wide, in short dense bracted spikes; loment commonly 2 -jointed, 

 the persistent hooked style-base pubescent. 



Dry and moist open rocky and sandy places, Great Bahama and Little Harbor 

 Cay, and throughout the islands from New Providence to the CaiCOS, Grand Turk 

 and Inagua : Florida; West Indies; the Cayman Islands; Mexico southward to 

 Colombia. Common Pencil-flower. 



2. Stylosanthes viscosa Sw. Prodr. 108. 1788. 



Viscid-pubescent, usually much-branched, 1.5-3 dm. high the branches 

 spreading or ascending. Stipules adnate to the petioles, their tips free, subu- 

 late; leaflets elliptic or oblong-elliptic, pubescent and ciliate, pinnately veined, 

 acute and mucronate; flowers few, in short dense bracted spikes, the bracts 

 villous and ciliate; loment 1-2-jointed, tipped by the hooked style-base. 



Scrub-lands, New Providence : Cuba ; Jamaica. Viscid Pencil-flower. 



10. MEIBOMIA Heist.; Fabr. Enum. PI. Hort. Helmst. 168. 1759. 



Perennial herbs, sometimes woody at the base, with stipellate 3-foliolate 

 or in some species 1- or 5-foliolate leaves, and usually small flowers in racemes 

 or panicles. Calyx-tube short, its teeth more or less united into 2 lips, the 

 upper one 2-toothed, the lower teeth acute or attenuate. Standard oblong, ovate 

 or orbicular, narrowed or rarely clawed at the base; wings obliquely oblong; 



