mws i ITORTUS JAIvTAICEN^rSr- |jK 



Leaflets three pairs- obovare hi tint. 



Height-frond one to two feet ; stem solitary, straight, round, green; smooth, the < 

 size of the littie fifiger'bekjwj*- brancl*wig*from the very bottom ; lower leaflets large,, 

 smaller, resembling- Italian seima, enlarging toward the end, obtuse, but ending in u- 

 Tory abort point, covered with a fine down, perceptible to the touch rather than the 

 sight; at the base of the petiole a slender stipule on each jkle. Both leaves and stems 

 Lave a strong smell ; the upper part of the stem and branches downy. Flowers exillary, 

 few, small, nodding, pale y el-law.- Uliienias. The leaves have -no oci J- leaflet', pe- 

 tioles uke, nate, spreading, roundish, thickened atuheba'se* channelled in the middle, 

 r-.ven. L> a:k ts sub-sessile, entire; between the lowest pair a m'itra-te yellow, linear 

 gland, on a short petiole. Peduncles solitary, shorter than. the petioles, two- flowered ; 

 pedicels quadrangular, three times as long as the peduncles. Leaflets ofthe calyx ovate, ; 

 two longer, convex, hairy at the edge ; petals cearly equal with claws ; the three up- 

 per ones spreading, the two loner contiguous, rather smaller. The lour upper fila- 

 ments minute, barren, wicbouV anther : ; {'our- middle larger, fertile, two lower bent 

 down; anthers perforate at the top. Germ oolong, acuminate; style subulate, re-- 

 curvecl ; stigrna-sinsple, pubescent ; legume pedicelTed, linear, tour or live inches long, 

 cylindnc-angular, .curved, even, containing from twenty to twenty-four- seeds. J':.-. 

 This plant - common in all tiie savannas about- Kingston, as it is also about Spanish- 

 Town ; and a very troublesome w< ed in the pens in Salt Ponds It flowers in October, 

 sheds its seeds; and dies away. It often grows in thick clusters, and destroys all other ' 

 vegetation in-those spots where it has established itself, and ought to be eradicated- 

 girtih gxe&t care. It shuts up its leaves at night.-. 



, 4. PILOSE. llymtY. 



Stffj'ruliCJSi! c recta hirsute, Jioribus singtilawbtij, a'aribus. E;ownr* 

 p 2'2-t, C. 12; 



Lrrflets four or fiw pairs, with very minute glands, stipules semi-cordate, acu- - 

 m mate, stem stiff,, hauy. 



Stem from-one to two feet high, herDareous, subdivided, upright, roun;^ hirsute, 

 Teddish ; branches short almost upright. Leaflets opposite sub-sessile, oblong, rounded ' 

 at the tip, sharp, with a very smaii bristle, lixed obliquely to the petiolule, vt ined, a 

 little hirsute on the edge. Common petioles thicker at -the base, round, hirsute; 

 glands extremely mi-cuto, pedicelled, concealed in the hairs under the lowest pumas. 

 btipules opposite,, sessile, sickle-shaped, acuminate, enure, hirsute. Flowers two or 

 three together, -axillary, small, yellow : peduncles filiform, long, one- flowered, smooth, 

 purplish; bractes twe, whitish, under the flowers; calycine leaflets lanceolate, spread- - 

 jng.; petals nearly equal, roundish, with claws, concave, wavd about the edge ; -fila- - 

 jr.ents seven,- two of them minute, barren; anthers linear, white, bearing pollen at - 

 the tip ; gerin oblong-lanceolate, villose, white ; style c\ lindric, thick, redUrved ; stigma^ 

 simple obtuse ; legume sub-cylimirie, linear, pedicelled, pubescent. Native- of -Ja-- 

 T^naica, flowering towards the ead ofthejear. SuaiH. 



5. BJFtCRA. TWO-FLOWERFO. 



Fnit:'cosa, Joliis minoribus obverte oiatis sexjugatis, jbsrifflsr gemina* 

 ttsvel bigemiiwtis, racemis aiaribus* Browne, p. 223, C 6. 

 leaflets six pairs *atner oblong smooth, the lower ones smaller, a suoulate gland 

 V-trtvWii u* lowest, peUiceis ivvu-flv-wercti*- 



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