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98 og LEGUMINOSAE. (Abrus. 
middle. Stigma terminal, minute. Pod unknown. — Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. 
p. 420. — V. pi Smith, in Rees’ Cyclop. no. 7. 
Haw t the upper edge of the forests on a Kea and Mauna Loa, 7000—8000 ft. 
Olendes, Mares, estes Not known from elsew 
8. ABRUS, L. 
Calyx subtruncate, with very short dans the upper 2 connate. Standard 
_ oyate, adhering at the base to the staminal tube, Keel-petals united 
a 
by transverse dissepiments. — Twining herbs or shrubs. Leaves with a 
¢erminal mucro and several pairs of leaflets. Racemes terminal, the 
flowers in fascicles arising from thick nodes. 
A small genus, common to the New and Old World. 
‘ +1. A. precatorius, L.; DC. Prod. IT, 381. — Leaflets in 7—10 pairs, 
oblong, about 6“ long, blunt, sprinkled underneath with appressed hairlets. 
Racemes with 1 or 2 leaves or sis least a leafless pair of stipules below 
the flowers, the flowering part 1‘ or more in length, with crow ded nodes. 
Flowers pink or pale purple, 5—-6’ long. Pod sessile, oblong, 1— 1/2 X 
1/2‘, subtruncate at both ends. Seeds eS egies scarlet, with a 
black spot at the base. — Benth. FI. ven p. 92. — Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 
aped from gardens, here and there. The pretty seeds are known as «praying beads». 
The species ecrhahts derives from Asia, but ha now found o most waste hoptbies Ss. 
Trine VI. PHASEOLEAE. 
Stems usually ohana or woody at the base only, twining or prostrate, 
rarely erect s s or trees. Leaves with 3 mostly stipellate leaflets 
(rarely 5—7), ee two opposite ones inserted below the terminal one oF 
_ rarely wanting. Inflorescence usually axillary. Stamens diadelphous, 
with the upper stamen free at the base, although sometimes united with 
the others in the middle. Pod 2-valved. Cotyledons thick. 
9. CLITORIA, L. 
Calyx bibracteolate at the base, campanulate-tubular, 5-cleft or 5-toothed. 
Standard large, emarginate; wings falcate, patent, longer than the in- 
‘lim! uberect unders 
opposite stipellate — a the odd terminal one. eae aside 
large, blue, purple or 
pecies, stele to the tropies of the Old and New World. 
71. C. Ternatea, L. — DC. Prod. IL, 233. — Stem frutescent, twining, 
puberulous. Leaves with 2—5 pairs of ovate blunt leaflets and subulate 
