148 L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) \_Zornia. 



Plains from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and BIRMA, ascending to 4000 ft. in 

 KUMAON. DISTRIB. Everywhere in the Tropics. 



Stems wiry, densely csespitose. Leaves petioled ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 

 rigidly coriaceous, -1 in. long, dotted with black glands ; stipules lanceolate, with a 

 long spur. Racemes 1-3 in. long, 3-12-flowered ; bracts ovate, acute, nearly or quite 

 hiding the flower and pod. Joints 2-6, under ~ in., densely prickly. 



VAR. 1. zeylonensis ; leaflets ovate, pod much longer than the bracts, joints 

 twice as large densely bristly. Z. zeylonensis, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 317 ; Wall. Cat. 

 r>661 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 217; Dale. $ Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 62. Z. conjugate, Smith in 

 Bees, Cyclop. ; Thwaites Enum. 85. Hedysarum conjugatum, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1178. 

 Plains of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



VAR. 2. Walkeri (Am. Pugill. 12, sp.); leaflets oblong ^-1 in. long, bracts 

 downy at the edge, pod scarcely exserted from the' bracts, joints small reticulato- 

 venose with only a few small bristles jiear the edge. Walp. Sep. i. 726 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 85. Ceylon, Walker, Thwaites.'^ 



37, STiriaOSANTHES, Sw. 



Undershrabs. Leaves rigid, pinliately 3-foliolate Flowers inconspicuous, 

 in small dense heads. Calyx with an elongated filiform tube, and 5 teeth, 

 of which the upper 4 are subconnate. Flowers polygamous, the fertile 

 ones often apetalous. Petals inserted Lt the throat of the calyx-tube ; standard 

 orbicular; keel subrostrate. /Sfozwewsmonadelphous; anthers dimorphous. Ovary 

 subsessile at the base of the calyx-tube ; style long, filiform, the lower part per- 

 sistent, stigma minute capitate. Pod with 1-2 flattened rugose joints. 

 DISTKIB. Species about 15. Cosmopolitan, tropical. 



I. S. mucronata, WUW,.\ DC. Prodr. ii. 318; Wall. Cat. 5664; 

 W. $ A. .Prodr. 218 ; Sedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 294. Arachis fruticosa, Retz. ; 

 Roxl. Hort. Benr/. 54 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 282. Hedysarum hamatum, Burm. Fl. 

 Ind. 167 ; Fl. Zeyl. t. 106, fig. 2. 



Shores of WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Cape, Trop. Africa, Malay 

 isles. 



A low diffuse undershrub, with terete pubescent branches. Stipules scariose, 

 adnate downwards to the petiole ; leaflets - ^ in. long, pale green, rigidly coriaceous, 

 oblong or lanceolate ; under-side a little pubescent at first. Flowers 1 or few, in 

 sessile terminal heads ; bracts persistent, striated, pubescent. Corolla in., exserted. 

 Pod 1-2-jointed, tipped with the falcate indurated lower part of the style. * 



3d. SMITH! A, Ait. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaflets many, small, seasitive , leaf-rachis ending 

 in a bristle; stipules scariose, with Jargre auricles. Flowers racemose or axil- 

 lary. Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the .lips ^usually entire. Corolla exserted ; stan- 

 dard orbicular ; keel incurved, obtuse.' Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary linear, many-ovuled ; style incurved, filiform, stiirma minute 

 capitate. Pod of few or many minute flattened or turgid joints, folded together 

 inside the calyx. DISTKIB. Species 20-30, spread through the tropics of the old 

 -world. 



* Calyx rigid, its veins close, parallel, simple. 



1. S. sensitiva, Ait.] DC. Prodr. ii. 323; stems not bristly, leaflets 

 small 4-20, flowers in short simple racemes, calyx-lips equal, corolla yellow. 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 342 ; Salisb. Par. t. 92 ; Wall. Cat. 5668, ex- 



