42 FLORA OF JAMAICA Vicia 



[§ 6. Climbing herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate ending in a 

 tendril ; leaflets without stipels. Stipules semisagittate. 

 Flowers subsessile, 1 or 2 together in the axils. Stamens 10, 

 uppermost free or more or less united with the sheath. 

 Pod 2-valved. 



VICIA L. 



Leaflets in several pairs. Calyx with 5 segments. Standard 

 obovate, emarginate with a broad claw. Mouth of the staminal 

 sheath oblique. Style thread-like, with a bunch of hairs at the 

 apex. Pod compressed, continuous within. Seeds globular, with 

 a small aril. 



Species 120, widely dispersed through the temperate regions 

 of the northern hemisphere and of South America. 



V. sativa L. Sp. PI. 736 (1753); Macf. Jam. i. 272; Griaeh. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 189. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Vetch. 



Naturalized ; Macfadyen ; March ! Clifton Mount ; Mt. Hybla, 3600 ft. ; 

 Hams ! FI. Jam. 10,802. — Native of Europe, widely cultivated and natural- 

 ized throughout the world. 



Annual. Leaflets in 5-7 pairs, oblong-linear, apex truncate, mucronate. 

 Flowers dark rose or purple, with very short stalks, 1-2 in the axils. Calyx- 

 segments equal, about as long as the tube, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 

 about 2 cm. 1. Pod glabrate, linear, about 5 cm. 1. 



Lathyrus tingitanus L., the Tangier Pea, has been collected in the 

 Blue Mts., but it is probably an escape from a garden. It is an annual 

 with a winged stem, a single pair of leaflets with a branched tendril, and 

 flowers purple, about an inch long, 2 or 3 in a raceme.] 



§ 7. Shrubs with twining branches. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 

 with the end of the petiole produced bristle-like ; leaflets 

 without stipels. Plowers in clusters along axillary and 

 terminal racemes. Stamens 9, united into a sheath split 

 above. Pod 2-valved. 



11. ABRUS Adans. 



Leaflets in numerous pairs. Calyx truncate, teeth very short. 

 Standard elliptical-ovate, with a short broad claw. Style glabrous. 

 Pod compressed, with transverse membranous partitions between 

 the seeds. 



Species 6, natives of the tropics. 



A. preeatorius L. Syst. ed. 12, 472 (1767) ; Wright Mem. 213, 

 293 ; Macf. Jam. i. 274 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 190 ; Bak. in 

 Hook./. Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 175 ; Bentl. d Trim. Med. PI. t. 11 ; Urh. 



