28 FLOEA OF JAMAICA ^schynomene 



veining ; stipules ovate, many-nerved, 3-5 mm. 1. — ^. brasiliana 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 322 (1825) ; Bentli. torn. cit. 68 ; Griseh. he. ciL 

 Senna spuria minima &c. Honstoun MS. Cassia biflora Miller 

 Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). 0. Houstoniana Goliad. Hist. Cass. 132 

 (1816). Hedysarum brasilianum Pair. Ennjc. vi. 448 (1804). 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Houstmm ! — Cuba, St. Lucia, Trinidad, tropical continental America. 



Stem shrubby, 2-3 ft. high, diffuse. Leaves 2-3 cm. 1. ; leaflets ciliate, 

 glabrous on upper surface, with a few adprcssed hairs beneath, •8-l-2cm.l., 

 4-6 mm. br. Inflorescence laxly paniculate, several-flowered. Flowers 

 about 7 mm. 1. Pod 1-4-jointed, contracted between the joints; joints 

 semicircular-roundish, 3-4 mm. in diam. 



Miller states in his Gardener's Dictionary that " This grows naturally 

 in Jamaica, from whence the seeds were sent me." A specimen with the 

 name in his own handwriting and marked " Jamaica, 1730, Houstoun," 

 is in Herb. Mus. Brit. But we have not seen any other specimen collected 

 in Jamaica. 



8. STYLOSANTHES Sw. 



Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules united to the leaf- 

 stalk. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, forming dense heads 

 or spikes ; floAvers subsessile at the axil of a leaf or of a 2-lobed 

 bract, sometimes solitary with 2 or 3 bracteoles, sometimes with 

 a bristle-like abortive axis. Calyx-tube long, stalk-like ; 4 upper 

 lobes united, lowest distinct, narrow, or, the 2 upper lobes united 

 nearly to the apex, the remaining 3 distinct (in S. hamaia). 

 Standard roundish. Stamens 10, all united into a closed sheath ; 

 anthers alternately longer, subbasifixed, and short, versatile. 

 Pod compressed, apex with a hooked beak, the persistent lower 

 part of the style ; joints 2, or 1 (with the lower abortive). 



Species 25 to 30, natives of Asia, Africa, N. America, West 

 Indies, but chiefly of S. America. 



Not viscous; leaflets lanceolate ; beak of pod as long as joint 1. S.hamata. 

 Viscous-pubescent; leaflets elliptical ; beak very short." 2. S.mscosa. 



1. S. hamata Tauh. in Verh. Bot. Brand, xxxii. 22 (1890) ; 

 pubescent or subglabrous ; leaflets lanceolate ; beak about as long 

 as the pod. — Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 288. S. procumbens Siv. Prodr. 

 108 (1788), in Svensh Vet. Ahad. Eandl. 1789, 297, f. 11,/. 1 & Fl. 

 Ind. Occ. 1282; Macf. Jam. i. 262 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 188. 

 Anonis non spinosa minor &c. Sloane Cat. 75 & Hist. i. 187, 

 t. 119,/. 2. Trifolium procumbens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 298. 

 Hedysarum hamatum L. Syst. 1170 (1759) (excl. syn. Burm.), 

 Amoen. v. 403 & Sp. PL cd. 2, 1056 (excl. syn. Burm.). (Fig. 8.) 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



PencilFlower. 



St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane, Herb. iii. 94 ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 

 76! Houstoun \ Wriglit\ Broiightonl Browne; Bancroft \ common in 



