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1. S. conferta, Sm. in Bees Cyclop, xxxiii. A procumbent or diffuse 

 perennial of 1 to \\ ft. or rarely more, glabrous except a few long rigid baira 

 or bristles on tlie young branches, petioles, margins and midribs of the leaflets, 

 <1nd on the calyx. Leaflets 7 to 15 or more, rather crowded on a short cora- 

 mon petiole, oblong or linear, oblique, under \ in. long. Stipules produced 

 below their insertion into a subulate-acuminate appendage longer than tlie 

 upper part. Racemes reduced to clusters of 3 to 5 flowers, almost sessile in 

 the upper axils. Bracteoles broad, striate, above half the length of the'calyx. 

 Calyx ^ to 4 lines long, the lips slightly falcate, acute, raucronate, finely 

 striated. Ovules about 6. Pod not protruding from the calyx.— -S'. capilak, 

 Dcsv. Journ. Bot. i. (iii.) 121 ; S. sensitiva, var. ^3. W. and Am. Prod. 220. 



Queensland ? E. Coast, H. Brown. Commou m E. India and in the Archipelago. 



43. ZORNIA, Gmel. 



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. Calyx small and thin, the 2 upper lobes united, the 2 lateral ones small, 

 the lowest narrow. Standard orbicular; wings obovate or oblonp: ; keel lu- 

 curved, almost rostrate. Stamens united in a closed tube ; anthers alter- 

 nately long and short. Ovary sessile with several ovules ; style filiform, wi i 

 a small terminal stigma. Pod with the upper suture continuous, ^he lower 

 one much indented; articles several, flat, smooth muricate or bristly.—xlei ^ 

 Leaves of 2 or 4 digitate leaflets, without stipellse. Stipules striate, ^lowers 

 in terminal and axillary loose spikes. Bracts in pairs, enclosing the flowers, 

 striate and oblique like the stipules, but broader and larger; bracteoles none. 



The genus is chiefly AmericaTi, one species found also in South Africa, and another wi ey 

 dispersed over the wanner regions of the New and the Old World, including AustraJia. 



1. Z. diphylla. Pen, Syn. ii. 318. A low terb, sometimes annu^^^^^ 



sometimes forming a thick rootstock of several years' duration, the brm 

 decumbent, ascending or nearly erect, 6 in. to 1 or 2 ft. long. Leaile ^ 

 the end of the petiole varying from ovate and only 2 or 3 lines long 

 lower leaves, to lanceolate or linear from ^ to 1 in. long in the "PP"^^ ^^^^^^ 

 rarely all ovate acute and rather larger, or all linear. Flowers in the ^^ ' 

 lian varieties 3 to 4 lines long, almost enclosed in the narrow or ovate w^^^^. 

 which like the stipules are produced into a short auricle below their inse ^^j 

 and are often, as well as the leaves, marked with a few pellucid ^^■!' .j^^j, 

 longer or shorter than the bracts, of 3 to 6 articles, quite smooth and^ ^^^^^ 

 late or pubescent or muricate with hooked or pubescent bristles or p 



N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller i Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Brown ; Port Essington, Arnutroyig ; Sweers Island and Albert river^ Henne. ^^^^^ 



Queensland. Burnett, Dawson, and Brisbane rivers, F, Mueller; from iiroa ^^^_^^ 

 !o Northumberland Islands, R. Brown; Port Curtis, M'Gillivrat/ ; Kockhampton, 

 and others ; Dogwood Creek. LeicMardt. i TIa-ting> 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Paramatta, JToolls ; Clarence ana i - 

 rivers, Beckler ; New Euglaud, C Stuart. ., ^^Yqi-jcI. Of 



- The species is common in most hot countries in both the New and t^^. . u^at occuf 

 the numerous varieties enumerated in Mart. Fl. Bras. Fapil. 79, the followmg a 



io Australia ; — is sin^l^ ^^^ 



a. vulgaris. The common Asiatic form, with the leaflets of the lower leave ^^ ^^^^^ 

 Ovate, those of the upper ones lanceolate or linear, the bracts rather narrow 

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