218 LEGUMINOS&. STYLOSANTHES. 
cumbent herbaceous or suffrutescent plants, glabrous except on the margins 
of the stipules and bracteas. Leaves equally pinnated: leaflets 2 pair (the 
pairs approximated but not from the same point), cuneate-obovate, retuse, 
unequally 2-4-nerved at the base, dotted. Stipules semi-sagittate, lanceo- 
late, larger on the young shoots, ciliated. Racemes axillary or terminal, on 
longish peduncles. Bracteas large, orbicular, obliquely cordate or somewhat 
semi-sagittate at the base, alternate, many-nerved, reticulated with veins, in- 
conspicuously dotted, glabrous, the margin ciliated with long brownish pa- 
tent bristles. Flowers solitary in each bractea, pedicelled, purplish when - 
dry. 
This genus is no doubt closely allied to Zornia, but differs by its habit, as well as 
by several characters. The flowers appear purplish, but Klein mentions that the 
vexillum is orange-coloured. 
675. (1) G. cristata (W. & A.)—Wight! cat. n. 823.—Zornia disperma, 
Graham ! in Wall.! L. n. 5663.—Hedysarum bijugum, herb. Klein !—Smithia? 
eu herb. Wight !——Courtallum, in very moist soil. Malabar, in rice 
elds. 
We have changed the specific name given by Dr Graham, as the legumes 
are by no means constantly 2-seeded ; and besides that was not the one at- 
tached to the specimens sent by Dr Wight to Dr Wallich: that of Klein is 
the older, but scarcely sufficiently expressive. 
XXVI. STYLOSANTHES. Swartz. 
Calyx-tube very long, slender: limb 5-partite: lobes unequal. Corolla 
(in part) inserted on the throat of the tube of the calyx: keel minute, bifid 
at the apex. Stamens monadelphous : anthers alternately linear and Desc 
Ovary sessile. Style filiform, very long, straight. Stigma capitate, hispid. 
Legume composed of one or two 1-seeded joints ; the upper one acumina 
and somewhat hooked with the base of the style.—Small herbaceous or suf- 
frutescent plants. Stems branched. Leaves trifoliolate, the middle leaflets 
almost sessile. Stipules adnate to the petiole. Spikes terminal, dense, 1m- 
bricated with stipules and bracteas. Flowers small, yellow. 
s 676. (1) S. mueronata been suffruticose, branched, spreading: branches 
hirsutely pubescent : leaflets oblong-ovate, stiffly mucronate, slightly ciliated 
with short stiff bristles; under side of the younger ones a little pubescent 
and hairy: flowers axillary sessile and solitary, or forming small few-flowe 
terminal imbricated ovate spikes: bracteas ciliated: calyx-tube villous— 
Willd. sp. 3. p. 1166 3 DC. prod. 2. p. 318 3 Spr.syst. 3. p. 310; Wall.! L. n. 
5664 ; Wight! cat. n. 814. —Arachis fruticosa, Retz. obs. 4. p. 26; Roxb. fe 
ind. 3. p. 282; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1273, Hedysarum hamatum, Burm. 
Ind. p. 167 ; Burm. Zeyl. t. 106. f. 2 ; Pluk. t. 69. f. 1. 
XXVII. ZESCHYNOMENE. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 629. 
Calyx with two ovate deciduous bracteoles at its base, 2-lipped : upper lip 
bifid or 2-toothed, lower trifid or 3-toothed. Corolla papilionaceous, inse j 
into the bottom of the calyx: vexillum roundish; alee oblong: keel cymbiform, 
bipartite at the base. Stamens equally diadelphous (5and5). Legumen com- 
pressed, straight, exserted, composed of many joints: joints square at both ends, 
easily separating from each other. Seeds solitary in each joint, compressed.— 
Herbaceous or shrubby plants. Leaves unequally pinnated ; leaflets nume- 
rous. Stipules semisagittate. Racemes axillary, Flowers often yellow. 
