Stylosanthes 



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pastures, Macfadyen ! St. Andrew, McNah 1 Purdie ! Liguanea plain, 

 380 ft. ; Campbell 1 near Kingston ; between Kingston and Morant Bay ; 

 Watson Hill ; Faivcett ! Kingston, Port Morant, Hitchcock ; Fl. Jam. 6019, 

 6113, 8249, 8397. — Bahamas, Cayman, West Indies from Cuba to Grenada, 

 Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia. 



Stem procumbent or ascending, woody at base, 1-3 or 4 dm. 1. Leaflets 

 •7-1 "7 cm. 1., 2-6 mm. br., subglabrous, margin generally ciliolate"; nerves 



Fig. 8.— Stylosanthes hamata Xaub. 



A, Portion of flowering branch x t. 



B, Flower with one wing turned down x 5, 



C, Wing, inner face X 5. 



D, Portion of flowering branch with po^I 

 X 2. 



E, Pod X 2. 



prominent beneath. Bracts leaf-like, often without 1 or 2 leaflets, bearing 

 in the axil a flower and a bristle-like hairy stalk ; bracteoles hyaline. 

 Calyx : tube 3'5 mm. 1., limb 2-5 mm. 1., 2 upper lobes united nearly to 

 the apex, the remaining 3 distinct. Corolla yellow, standard 4*5 mm. 1. ; 

 wings 3*7 mm. 1. ; keel 3 mm. 1. Pod, including the beak, nearly 1 cm. 1. 



2. S. viseosa Sw. Prodr. 108 (1788); viscous-pubescent; 

 leaflets narrowly elliptical ; beak of the pod very short. — Sw. in 

 Svensk Vet. Acad. Handl. 1789, 298, t. 11, /. 3 & Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 1285 ; Macf. Jam. i. 262. S. glutinosa H. B. d E. Nov. Gen. & 

 Sp. vi. 507, t. 595 (1824). Loto pentaphyllo &c. Sloane Cat. 74 

 & Hist. i. 186, t. 119, /. 1. Trifolium suberectum &c. Broicne 

 Hist. Jam. 299. Hedysarum hamatum, var. viseosa L. Amoen. 

 V. 404 (1760) (excl. ref. to Burm.) & var. ^ L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1056. 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Sloane Herb. iii. 93 ! Lane in Herb. Sloane Ixii, 76 I Browne ; Brough- 

 ton 1 Shakspear ! common in pastures and roadsides, Macfadyen ; McNab ! 

 Purdie 1 Wtillschlaegel ; Oersted ! Spring Hill, Portland ; Lititz savanna, 



