40 FLORA OF JAMAICA Lourea 



length inflated. Standard obcordate ; narrowed into a claw. 

 Uppermost stamen free, the rest united. Pod constricted between 

 the seeds ; joints 4-5, compressed, folded back on each other, and 

 hidden within the enlarged calyx. 



Species 4, growing within the tropics in Asia and Australia. 



L. vespertilionis Desv. Journ. Bot. I 122, t. 5,/. 18 (1813); 

 Wight Ic. t. 285. Hedysarum vespertilionis Linn. f. Suppl. 

 331 (1781) ; Lour. Fl. Coch. 447 ; Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. Hi. t. 566 ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 185 ; Bah in Booh. f. Fl. Br. Ind. it. 154. 

 Pounded by Linnseus fil. on a specimen sent by Father Joannes 

 de Loureyro from Cochin China in 1774. There is a specimen 

 from Loureyro of the same date in Herb. Banks in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



Naturalized; in fl. May-Sept.; "near Botanic Gardens, Port Royal 

 Mts." (collector not named, in Herb. Kew.) ; Purdie ! Providence Road, 

 700 ft.; Temple. Hall, 800 ft.; Thompson I Constant Spring, Hitchcock; 

 Castleton District, 500 ft. ; Mona, 800 ft. ; Constant Spring to Bardowie, 

 800 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6744, 7402, 8008, 8941, 12,108.— Naturalized in 

 St. Kitts, Martinique, St. Vincent, Trinidad, native of East Indies. 



Stem 2-3 ft. high, erect, slender. Leaves thin, somewhat leathery, 

 generally 1-foliolate, rarely 3-foliolate; leaflet with 2 narrowly lanceo- 

 late blunt spreading 2-3-nerved halves, 3-8 cm. in breadth from tip to tip, 

 •5-1*5 cm. ]. ; lateral leaflets, if present, much smaller, obliquely obversely 

 deltoid. Calyx finally 6-9 mm. 1. Corolla a little longer than the calyx, 

 yellow or white. Pod, joints 3 mm. 1.] 



[ALYSICARPUS Neck. 



Leaves 1-foliolate. Stipules dry, enclosing 2 stipels. Flowers 

 small, in terminal, and sometimes also in axillary, racemes. 

 Calyx 5-fid, segments long, narrow, dry, rigid. Corolla included. 

 Standard obovate or roundish, clawed. Uppermost stamen free, 

 the rest united. Pod cylindrical or only slightly compressed ; 

 joints several, thick. 



Species 16, growing within the tropics in Asia, Africa, and 

 Australia, one also naturalized in tropical America. 



A. vaginalis DC. Prodr. it, 353 (1825) ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. 185 ; Bah. in RooJc. f. Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 158. A. nummulari- 

 folius DC. loc. cit. ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 294. Hedysarum foliis 

 simplicibus cordato-oblongis, petiolis simplicibus, stipulis vagi- 

 nantibus L. Fl. Zeyl. 133. H. vaginale L. Sp. PI. 746 (1753). 

 Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. As pointed 

 out by Trimen in Flora of Ceylon (ii. 44) Hedysarum nummu- 

 larifolium L. (Sp. PI. 746) has been generally regarded as a 

 synonym of this species, but the description, as well as the type 



