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free, tlie others united; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile ot nearly so, with 2 

 or more ovules ; style filiform with a capitate terminal stigma. Pod nearly 

 sessile, contracted between the seeds ; articles ovate, folded l)ack upon each 

 other within the calyx, — Herbs or iiudershriibs. Leaves pinnate of 3, rarely 

 5 or 7 leaflets, or sometimes of a single terminal leaflet, usually prominently 

 reticulate, with stipelte. Stipules free, acuminate, striate. Flowers purplish 

 or yellowish, in terminal racemes either slender and elongated or dense and 

 ^ike-hke, the pedicels in pairs, inflexed at the top so as to reverse the flowers, 

 Bracts usually broad, acuminate ; bracteoles none. 



An Asiatic and African tro])ical genus, with one or two species naturalized in some parts 

 of tropical America. Of the Australian species, two are common Asiatic ones, the third ap- 

 pears to be eoJcuiic. 



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Upper leaves of 3 or 5 long narrow leaflets. Eaccrae loiig aii'J slender. 

 Pod of 3 to 6 articles I. U. pida. 



Leaves mostly of 3 oblong leaflets. Raceme cylindrical dense and 

 spike-like. Pod of 2 articles. Bracts persistent 2. ?7. cylindracea. 



i^aves mostly of 1 very broad leaflet. Raceme oblong dense and spike- 

 like. Pod of 2 articles. Bracts deciduous 3. K lagopoides. 



1- U. picta, Besv. ; DC Trod. ii. 324. An uridershriib with ascending 

 or erect stems of 1 to 3 ft., loosely pubescent or villous. Lower leaves oc-_ 

 casionally of 1 ovate leaflet, tlie others of 3, 5, or rarely 7 leaflets, from ovate- 

 laneealate to narrow oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4 or even 5 in. long, obtuse or 

 almost acute, glabrous or scabrous-pubescent, the Asiatic specimens often 

 vanegated with white along the midrib. Eacemes long and slender, often 

 attaining 6 to 8 in. in fruit. Bracts ovate, falling off long before the flower e.\:- 

 pands. Pedicels short, hispid-villous. Calyx-lobes setaceous, plumose, rather 

 above 1 line long, the upper ones rather shorter. Petals more than twice as 

 '0"g- Pod of 3 to 6 small glabrous articles.— Wight, Tc. t. 411. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Bowen 



ll^iU^^n^"*": X'^'^^ *I"'ca<l oVer tropical Asia and Africa and introduced into the ^Vest 

 "t in some the leaves are\early air 5-foirolate, as in the Asiatic ones. 



0,1. " 'ucijf spreau over tropical Asia anu iiiritu uiiu "'i-'""''^-" -••-" "■- - 



es. Ihe Australian specimens have the leaflets nsnally all green, and often 3 or 1 only, 



. 2. U. cylindracea, BentK An undershrub with decumbent or ascend- 

 n>g stems, loosely pubescent or rusty- villous. Leaflets 3 or very rarely 1, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, the terminal one usually l\ to 3 in. long, the lateral 

 ones smaller, slightly scabrous above, softly pubescent underneath. Racemes 

 ?ense,_but more elongated than in U. lagopoides, often attaining 3 m. when 

 a f'-uit Bracts broadly ovate, softly villous, persistent. Pedicels rather 

 jnger than the calyx. Calyx-lobes subulate-plumose as in U. lagojwides, but 

 Je upper ones much shorter. Pod of 2 articles, the pericarp thm, but 

 strongly reticulate. 



PQ? V '^''***'»«a- Islands of the N. coast, B. Brown ; tapper Victoria river, F. 3fuel/er 

 ^ tssington, Armstrong ; Sweers Island, Ilenne. 



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Wuh the inflorescence and habit of U. iagopus, DC. which has not yet been found m 

 ""ti-alia, this species has the 2-ovulate ovary and the^od of U. lagopoides. 



■ -3. U. lagopoides, DC. Prod. ii. 324. Stock short and woody or shortly 

 creepu,g, ^fth procumbent or ascending stems of i to H ft., pubescent or 

 •^osely villous. Leaflets solitary «• 3, the single or termmal one from orbi- 



