AVyHca/rpus LEGUMINOS^ 41 



in Hermann's Herb,, show it to be Indigo/era echinata Willd. 

 This has been overlooked by Urban in Symb. Ant., where the 

 above species is cited as A. nummularifoUus. 



In fl. Oct.-March ; coast of Trelawney, Purdie ! Hope grounds ; King's 

 House grounds ; Cokely, near Castleton, 600 ft. ; Harris I Golden Valley, 

 500 ft. ; Thompson ! ConstaJit Spring, Bog Walk, Port Morant, Hitchcock; 

 Fl. Jam. 6808, 6954, 8050, 12,159. — Naturalized in West Indies and 

 Guiana ; native in tropics of Old World. 



Stems creeping, with ascending branches 1-3 ft. 1. Leaflets of different 

 forms often on the same plant, generally elliptical or round, some- 

 times oblong or lanceolate, base cordate, 3 mm. -4 cm. 1. Racemes 

 with 6-12 Howers, generally crowded. Calyx 5 mm. 1. Corolla rosy 

 or pale purple. Pod wrinkled, 1-2 cm. 1. ; joints 5-7, 2-2-5 mm. 1, Seeds 

 about 1 mm. 1.] 



§ 5. Low-growing herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, without 

 stipels. Flowers, 1, or more, crowded in the lower axils. 

 Stamens 10 (or 9), all united into a closed sheath. Pod 

 burying itself in the earth, not splitting open. 



[ARACHIS L. 



Leaves with 2 pairs of leaflets. Stipules adherent to the 

 leaf-stalk. Calyx, tube very long, stalk-like, 4 upper lobes 

 united, lowest distinct, narrow. Standard roundish. Anthers 

 alternately long, subbasifixed and short, versatile. Pod some- 

 what constricted between the seeds, but not jointed, continuous 

 within. Seeds 1—3. 



Species 9, of which 8 are Brazilian, and 1 (A. hypogsea) of 

 uncertain origin, cultivated throughout the tropics. 



A. hypogsea L. % PL 741 (1753); Wright Mem. 189; 

 Macf. Jam. i. 322 ; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 1, 86, t. 23, f. 1 ; 

 Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 189; Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. t. 75; 

 Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 289. Arachidna indise &c. Sloane Cat. 72 & 

 Hist. 'i. 184. Sena tetraphylla &c. Pluh. Phyt. t. 60, /. 2 

 & Aim. 341. 



Ground Nut, Earth Nut, Pea Nut, Monkey Nut. 



Cult. Sloane Herb. iii. 85 ! Wright 1 Macfadyen. — Cultivated in the 

 tropics, probably native of Brazil. 



Annual, with spreading hairs on branches and petioles. Stem thick, 

 erect, often 1 ft. high ; branches shortly prostrate then ascending. Leaflets 

 obovate or broadly oblong, apex rounded with a minute mucro, ciliate 

 with a few hairs, glabrous on upper surface, pubescent or glabrescent 

 beneath, 2*5-5 cm. 1.; petiole 5-7 cm. 1. Calyx: tube 2-4 cm. 1., limb 

 about • 5 cm. 1. Corolla golden yellow ; standard about 1 cm. 1. Pod (an 

 inch or more below the ground) at the end of a stiff stalk, 5-7 cm. 1., 

 which has grown beneath the ovary after the fall of the flower, 2-4 cm. 1. 

 Seeds edible, rich in oil.] 



