262 CALYCIFLORiE. 



Small herbaceous or suffruticose plants ; stems branched ; 

 leaves 3-foliate ; stipules adnate to the petiole ; spikes termi- 

 nal, dense, with imbricated stipules and bracteas ; flowers small, 

 yellow. They are destitute of beauty or of any useful property. 

 The name is derived from (StvXo; a style, and av&og ajiower. 



1. Stylosanthes procumbens. Procumbent Stylo- 



santhes. 



Stem procumbent appresso-pubescent at the apex, 

 leaflets oblong acute glabrous, spikes many-flowered. 



Anonis non spinosa minor glabra procumbens, flore luteo, 

 Sloa?ie, I. 187. t. 110. f. 2. — Trifolium procumbens, Browne, 

 298. — Stylosanthes procumbens, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1282. 



HAB. Common in pastures. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



SuflFrutescent, 2-6 inches in length. Leaflets entire, obliquely 

 lineated. Flowers yellow. Calycine tube filiform ; limb 5- 

 partite, with the division opposite to the standard the longest. 

 Standard emarginate. Stigma pubescent. Legume 1-2 jointed ; 

 joints 1 -seeded, with the terminal joint hooked: seeds oblong, 

 subreniform. 



2. Stylosanthes viscosa. Clammy erect Stylosanthes. 



Stem suffi'utescent erect, branches viscoso-hirsute, 

 leaflets elliptic mucronate serrulato-ciliated slightly 

 hirsute, spikes few-flowered. 



Loto pentaphyllo siliquosa similis, Anonis non spinosa, foliis 



cisti instar glutinosis et odoratis, Sloane, \. 186. t. 119. f. 1 



Trifolium suberectum subhirsutum, Broicne, 299. — Stylosanthes 

 viscosa, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1285. 



HAB. Common in dry pastures and by the road-sides. 



FL. Towards the end of the year. 



Sufl^ruticose, erect, 6-10 inches in height ; branches subterete, 

 striated, hirsute with hairs tipt with minute pellucid clammy 

 globules. Leaflets ciliated, slightly puberulous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath. Stipules deltoideo-lanceolate, acute, ciliated. 

 Spike terminal, leafy ; flowers (ew, small, orange-coloured, 

 solitary and subsessile in the axil of a leaf, and partially pro- 

 tected by the stipules. Bracteoles 2, close to the calyx, and 

 half the length of its tube, linear, ciliated. Calycine tube long, 

 filiform, unequally 5-fid ; the segment, which is opposite to the 

 keel, lanceolate, acute ; the rest opposite, villoso-ciliated. Stan- 

 dard reflected, rounded, emarginate ; wings oblique ; keel small, 

 bifid at the apex. Stamens monadelphous, free towards the 

 apex. Ovary lineari-oblong: style long, passing up the tube 

 of the calyx and entering the corolla to be enclosed in the co- 



