Vicia.] LEGUMINOSAE, 97 
72. D. triflorum, DC. Prod. II, 334. — Stems slender, much branched, 
prostrate or creeping, often not above a few inches long, sometimes 
1—2 ft., hairy. Leaflets 3, broadly obovate or obcordate, 3—4“ or rarely 
6" loti and broad, glabrous, or sprinkled with silky hairs. Stipules 
acuminate, persistent. owers pink, scarcely 2’ long, enclosed within 
calyx, on slender pedicels of 2—8“ in length, usually 2 together 
opposite the leaves. Pod sessile, 4—7” long, slightly curved, pubescent 
or glabrous, the upper suture continuous, the lower slightly indented, 
consisting of 3 to 6 nearly square joints which sometimes separate, but 
ic eae remain attached and oe along me! lower edge. — rea 
03, and FI. Haw. Islds. 55. — B Fl. Hongk. p. 
Giles: Fl. W. Ind. p. 186. — Wight, ‘Toon, Pl. ind ry tab. 291, 292. — Haig 
sarum triflorum, L. — Sagotia triflora, Wa 
On the Waikiki plains near Honolulu, and Vildiaee elsewhere, in spring. — A 
weed in tropical Asia and Africa, nat ‘naturalized in various parts of tropical Pine vainy 
TriBE V. VICIEAE. 
Low or climbing herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with the terminal 
_ leaflet transformed into a tendril, es mame pinnate or simple. Stipules 
usually large. Flowers solitary or cemes. Stamens diadelphous. 
Pod 2-valved. Ovules 2 to many. Ghiviatens thick. 
Here belong the common Pea and Lentil. 
7. VICIA, L. 
Calyx 5-cleft, often oblique, the 2 upper teeth shorter. Wings adherent 
to the keel at their middle, Vexillary stamen free or to some extent 
united with the rest. Style filiform, pubescent or barbed at the top, the 
hairs usually only at its exterior side. Pod compressed, continuous 
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arely 
with a terminal tendril or point. Inflorescence axillary. Bracts caducous. 
A considerable genus, widely distributed, mostly through the temperate regions. 
1. V. Menziesii, a. Syst. Veget. ILI, 267. — A strong climber, 
nearly glabrous. Stem ar, minutely pubescent, very leafy. Stipules 
large foliaceous, seclaially dentate with long and subulate teeth, especially 
the lower ones, seer are roundish or flabellate and 1/2—1‘ in diameter; 
the iets semisagitt Leaves 6—7‘ long. Leaflets 8—12, mostly 
than- the leaves, 2—4’ long, 6 6—8- flowered, the pedicels slender, approxi- 
mate, 3—5“ long. Flowers large, 1—1!/2‘, pale purple. Calyx 8”, its 
th as long as the tube, subulate, the lower one the longest. Standard 
onsale without a callus. Style minutely pubescent all round _ the 
illebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands 
