SAST/.RB HORTUS JAMAICENSIS, 73 



This plant rises three or four feet high, and bears its flowers on long axillary peJun^ 

 cles, in close bunches. 



"2. MINIMA. SMALLEST. 



Under shrubby, procumbent; leaflets nine ovate ; stipule opposite to the leaf, 

 eniarginate ; legumes angular, knotty. 



This has erect stems, a little branched, round, smooth, about eighteen inches in 

 height, woody at bottom only. The leaves unequally pinnate. Calyx yellowish. 

 Ci^rolla yellow'; peduncles three inches long, supporting twenty to twenty-six flowers. 

 The legumes an inch long, round, deflected, scarcely contracted between the seeds, 

 lenninated by the ascending style. 



BASTARD SENSITIVE. ^SCHYNOMENE. 



Cl. 17, OR. 4. Diadclpkia dccandn'a. Nat. or. Papilionacetp. 



Gen. CHAR. Calvx a one-leafed, bell-shaped, bihdjiate perianthium, upper bifid, 

 lower three-toothed-; corolla papilionaceous ; banner eordated and sub-ringent, 

 the wings sub-ovate, obtuse, shorter than lite l)anner ; keel lunate, pointed, the 

 length of the wings ; filaments single, nine cleft ; anthers small ; the nistillum lias 

 an oblong villous columnar germen ; the style subulate and rising ; stigma simple, 

 ratiier obtuse ; the pericarpium is a long compressed, unilocular, jointed pod; 

 seeds solitary between the joints, kidney shaped. Only one species is a native of 

 this island amrricana ; three others have, however, been introduced, natives of 

 Egypt and the East Indies, xhe grandijiora, sesban^ andaguatica. 



I.AMERICANA. AMERICAN. 



'ITedi/acirum caule hirsitlo, mimosce foliis alafift, pinnis acufis miyjimk 

 framitieis. S'oane, v. t, p. 186, t. 118, f. 3. PrPCioiibens^foUoUs 

 pinnatis mimulis, ramulis tenuissimis. Browne, p. 295. 



Stem herbaceous, hispid ; joints of the legumes semi cordate ; leaflets acu- 

 minate, bractes ciliate. 



This plant is very common in many places of Jamaica. Stem rarely reaches three 

 feet in length, but seldom stands upright ; it is sub-divided, round, and somewhat 

 Jiir.sute, delicate and slender. Branches filiform, patulous, round, streaked, hirsute. 

 The hairs are feruginous at the base. Leaves pinnate, alternate ; leaflets sessile, al- 

 ternate, minute, sickle shaped, serrulate, three-nerved beneath, smooth on both sides. 

 Petioles thicker at the base, round, hirsute. Stipules sickle shaped above and below 

 the petiole, opposite, acuminate, somewhat hirsute. Peduncles longer than the leaves^ 

 axillary, solitary, erect. Flowers pediceded, alternate, whitish or brownish yellow ; 

 i)ractes sessile, ovate-acuminate, serrate, streaked, hirsute at the edge. Calyx upper 

 lip serrate at the tip, or bluntly three-toothed, pubescent at the edge. Corolla, ban- 

 ner streaked, wings obovate, keel ovate, sickle-shaped, upriirht, bifid. Legume al- 

 most upright, pendulous, margined, wrinkled, pubescent.. Sw. Ob. 184. 



The branches are about a foot long, roundish, filled with a fnngou< pith, set very 

 Xhick on the outside with large and fierce hairs, or small prickles, of a wiiite colour, as 



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