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C viscosa Mac/. Jam. i. 345 (non JET. B. & K.). The type is in 

 Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



In hedges at Rock Fort, Broughton ! Liguanea, Macfadyen ! King's 

 House grounds, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6907. — Tropics of Old World, Mexico, 

 Bolivia. 



Stem a much branched erect annual, 1-2 ft. high ; stem and petioles 

 with glandular viscid hairs. . Leaves 5-7 cm. 1. ; leaflets elliptical, oblique, 

 glabrous on the upper surface, puberulous beneath, at length glabrescent, 

 2-3 cm. 1. ; petiole IcJng, 2-4 cm. 1. ; stipules small, lanceolate,. 3-3*5 mm. 1. 

 Bracts lanceolate, about 2*5 mm. 1. at base of raceme, ovate, about 

 2 mm. 1. at base of pedicel ; bracteoles 2, minute, very caducous, in middle 

 of pedicel. CaZt/o; 8*5-5 mm. 1., somewhat hirsute or puberulous. Corolla 

 5-7 mm. 1., yellow. Stamens 5 (7). Pod linear-oblong, sparsely covered 

 with bristly hairs, margined, 2*5-4 cm. 1., 6-7 mm. br., 6-7-seeded. Seeds 

 black, obovate-rhomboidal, 3*5-4 mm. 1. 



2. Pedicels solitary, in pairs, or in clusters, springing from 

 a peduncle which is more or less adherent to the stem for 

 some distance above the axil, so that the pedicels are 

 supra-axillary. 



17. C. rotundifolia Pera. Syn. i. 456 (1805) ; leaflets 1 pair, 

 roundish or obovate-elliptical, very oblique, 6-18 (24) mm. 1., 

 membranous, without a gland. — Griseh. op. cit. 210 ; Benth. in 

 Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 161 <k Trans-. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 570. C. bi- 

 foliolata DC. ex Goliad. Hist. Cass. 120, t. 9, b. 



Agualta Vale, St. Mary, McNab I — Tropical continental America. 



Stem prostrate, l-li ft. long, woody below, more or less puberulous, 

 much branched from below. Leaflets : base semicordate, apex rounded, 

 without a mucro, midrib exmedian,* nerves 4 or 5 fro-n the base, pinnate, 

 prominulous beneath, margin ciliolulate, otherwise glabrous ; petiole hairy, 

 3-5 mm. 1. ; stipules ovate, cordate, ribbed, base oblique, mucronate, 

 ciliolulate, 5-7 mm. 1. Pedicels solitary, slightly above the axils, longer 

 than the leaves, 1 * 5-2 ■ 5 cm. 1. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, 

 bristly above, 1-1*5 mm. 1. Calyx villose, 3*5-4 mm. 1. Corolla a little 

 longer than the calyx, 4-5 mm. 1. Pod margined, puberulous, 7-8-seeded, 

 1*6-3 cm. 1., 4 mm. br. 



18. C. pilosa L. Syst. ed. 10, 1017 (1759); leaflets, 2-5 pairs, 

 oblong, 10-25 mm. 1., membranous, without a gland. — L. Amoen. 

 V. 378 & Sp. PI. ed. 2, 540 ; Sw. Obs. Bot. 160 ; Goliad. Cass. 122, 

 t. 20, A ; Mac/. Jam. i. 347 ; Griseh. op. cit. 210 ; Benth. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvii. 570. C, emarginata Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 

 (1768) (nou L.). C. Milleri Goliad. Cass. 132 (1816). C. mimo- 

 sioides Wright Mem. 271 (1828) (non L.). C. suffruticosa erecta 

 hirsuta &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 224? (excl. syn. L. & Shane). 

 The type, Browne's specimen, is in Herb. Linn. 



* When the midrib is in the middle of the leaf, it is median, about 

 halfway between the middle and the margin exmedian, nearer the margin 

 than the exmedian position marginal. 



