Stylosanthes.'] LEGUMINOSAE 325 



peduncles ; bracts geminate, stipular, foliaceous, each pair 

 enclosing a sessile flower ; bracteoles 0. Calyx small, membranous 

 or hyaline, the 2 upper lobes connate in a lip, the 2 lateral small, 

 the lowest as long as the upper. Corolla exserted, the petals 

 clawed ; standard suborbicular ; wings obliquely oblong; keel petals 

 incurved, acute. Stamens rnonadelphous in a closed tube, the 

 free part of filaments about one-third of their length ; anthers 

 dimorphous. Ovary sessile ; ovules many ; style filiform ; stigma 

 minute, terminal. Pod a compressed lomentum of several, 

 smooth or with glochidiate prickles, 1-seeded joints. Seeds 

 subreniform, estrophiolate. 



Leaflets usually lanceolate acuminate, glabrous, rarely ovate, up to 

 1 in. long, dotted with scattered black glands ; standard cordate 

 above the claw; joints of lomentum '1 in. in diam., the prickles 



retrorsely scabrous 1. diphylla. 



Leaves ovate mucronate, up to '6 in. long, glabrous or more or less 

 white-villous, dotted with many minute white glands ; standard 

 narrowed above the claw; joints of lomentum '2 in. in diam., the 

 prickles glabrous 2. zeylonensis. 



1. ZORNIA DIPHYLLA, Pers. ; F. B. I. ii. 147. Z. angustifolia, 

 Sm. ; W. & A. 217. 



All dry Districts especially near the coast ; inland up to 



3,500 ft., often on rocks. 



A diffuse wiry herb with yellow flowers. Leaves usually 



lanceolate, but those near the base are often ovate and 



even emarginate. The bracts and stipules are very 



characteristic. 



2. ZORNIA ZEYLONENSIS, Pers. ; W. & A. 217. Z. diphylla 

 var. zeylonensis, Baker; F. B. I. ii. 118. 



East Coast Districts from Ganjani to Travancore, in sandy 

 places near the sea. 



A diffuse herb with longer branches and stouter rootstock 

 than the former. 



16. Stylosanthes, Swartz. 



Stiff undershrubs. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; stipules large, 

 adnate to the base of the petiole ; stipels 0. Flowers small, 

 usually yellow, in dense terminal heads, imbricate with the leaf- 

 stipules and linear lanceolate scarious bracts. Calyx-tube very 



