LEGUMINOS.E. CLIII. UIIARIA. CLIV. NICOLSOKIA. 



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CLIII. URA'RIA (a name not explained by its author). 

 Desv. journ. hot. 3. p. 122. t. 5. f. 19. Doodia, Roxb. hort. 

 beng. p. 99. but not of R. Br. Hedysarum species of Lin. and 

 others. 



LIN. SYST. Diadelphia, Decdndria. Calyx profoundly 5-cleft, 

 with setaceous segments. Corolla papilionaceous. Stamens dia- 

 delphous. Legume with a few ovate 1 -seeded joints, bent back 

 into plaits, nestling within the calyx. Herbs, rarely shrubs, 

 with impari-pinnate, ternate, or simple leaves, stipellate leaflets, 

 lanceolate membranous acuminated stipulas, which are striated 

 lengthwise, the upper ones answering the purpose of bracteas to 

 the flowers, but soon falling off. Pedicels 1 -flowered, rising in 

 pairs from the axils of the bracteas, forming long, dense, simple, 

 many-flowered racemes. 



* Leaves iinpari-pinnate, with 2-4 pairs of leaflets. 



1 U. PI'CTA (Desv. 1. c.) stem shrubby, erect, velvety ; leaves 

 with 2-4 pairs of long lanceolate leaflets, which are smoothish 

 above, and blotched with white, but pubescent and reticulately- 

 nerved beneath ; racemes very long and spicate ; bracteas 

 ciliated ; segments of the calyx setaceous, and very hairy, fj . S. 

 Native of Guinea, among grass all along the coast, and of the 

 East Indies. Hedysarum pictum, Jacq. icon. rar. 3. t. 567. 

 coll. 2. p. 262. Flowers purple. 



Painted-leaved Uraria. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1788. Shrub 



2 to 3 feet. 



2 U. COMOSA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 324.) stem shrubby ; branches 

 and petioles villous ; leaves with 3 pairs of linear-lanceolate gla- 

 brous leaflets ; racemes elongated, cylindrical ; bracteas villous ; 

 segments of the calyx setaceous, and very hairy, fj . S. Native 

 of the East Indies. Hedysarum comosum, Vahl. symb. 2. p. 84. 



Tufted Uraria. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1818. Shrub 2 feet. 



3 U. CRINI'TA (Desv. 1. c.) stem shrubby, erect ; leaves with 

 2-3 pairs of oblong leaflets ; racemes elongated ; pedicels hispid, 

 recurved ; the 3 largest segments of calyx pilose and reflexed ; 

 legumes smooth. ^ S. Native of the East Indies. Hedy- 

 sarum crinitum, Lin. mant. 102. Burm. ind. p. 169. t. 56. 



Hairi/-ca\yx.ed Uraria. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1780. Shrub 



3 to 4 feet. 



* * Leaves trifoliate, the terminal leaflets stalked. 



4 U. LAGOPOIDES (D. C. prod. 2. p. 324.) stem shrubby, 

 rather velvety ; leaflets ovate, mucronate, almost naked ; racemes 

 oblong, about the length of the common petiole ; segments of 

 calyx setaceous, and very hairy. Tj . S. Native of the East 

 Indies and China. Hedysarum lagopodioides, Lin. spec. 1057. 

 Lespedeza lagopoides, Pers. ench. 2. p. 308. Burm. ind. p. 168. 

 t. 53. f. 2. Flowers purple. 



Hare's-foot-like Uraria. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1790. Sh. 2 ft. 



5 U. LAGO'PUS (D. C. in ann. sc. nat. 4. p. 100.) stem 

 shrubby, very hairy at the apex ; leaflets ovate, obtuse, mucro- 

 nate, clothed with soft velvety pubescence beneath ; racemes 

 cylindrical, twice the length of the petiole ; segments of the 

 calyx setaceous, and very hairy ; bracteas hairy on the back. 



fj . G. Native of Nipaul. Flowers purple. 

 Hare's-foot Uraria. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1824. Sh. 2 to 4 ft. 



6 U. ARBOREUM ; arboreous ; leaflets oval, retuse, and are, as 

 well as the branches, very hairy ; stipulas cordate, stem-clasp- 

 ing, cuspidate ; racemes elongated, bractless, densely clothed 

 witli stiff hairs ; calycine segments lanceolate, feathery ; legumes 

 3-seeded, plaited within the calyx. T? . G. Native of Nipaul. 

 Hedysarum arboreum, Hamilt. in D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 243. 

 Erythrina arboreseens, Roxb. hort. beng. p. 52. 1 



Tree Uraria. Tree 1 2 feet. 



7 U. LAGOCE'PHALA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 324.) stem herbaceous ; 

 leaflets roundish, pilose beneath ; panicle terminal, contracted, 



bracteate ; peduncles and calyxes very pilose ; calycine segments 

 long and linear ; legumes deflexed, glabrous, 3-jointed. It. S. 

 Native of Brazil. Hedysarum lagocephalum, Link. enum. 2. p. 

 248. Flowers yellow. 



Hare's-headed Uraria. Fl. July. Clt. 1824. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



* * * Leaves simple. 



8 U. CEUCIFOLIA (Desv. 1. c. f. 19.) leaflet, solitary at the top 

 of the petiole, furnished with 2 stipels, roundish, and rather vel- 

 vety beneath ; racemes oblong, dense, terminal. (? . S. Native 

 of the East Indies. Hedysarum cercifolium, Steud. nom. 392. 



Judas-tree-leaved Uraria. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



9 U. CORDIFOLIA (Wall. pi. rar. asiat. p. 33. t. 37.) leaves 

 simple, broadly ovate, cordate, villous on the under surface as 

 well as the branches ; racemes terminal, panicled, elongated, 

 hairy ; legume 2-3-jointed, villous, inclosed in the calyx ; brac- 

 teas ovate, acuminated, clothed with silky pili. tj . S. Native 

 of the Burman Empire, near Prome and Meaong, on the banks 

 of the Irawaddi. Flowers small, of a whitish-rose colour. 



Heart-leaved Uraria. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



Cult. A mixture of loam, peat, and sand will answer the 

 species, and young cuttings will root in sand under a hand-glass 

 in heat, but the species are more easily propagated by seeds. 



CLIV. NICOLSO'NIA (in honour of M. Nicolson, author of 

 Essai Sur L'Histoire Naturelle de Saint Domingue, 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Paris, 1770). D. C. legum. mem. vii. prod. 2. p. 325. Perro- 

 tetia, D. C. ann. sci. nat. Jan. 1825. p. 95. but not of Kunth. 



LIN. SYST. Diadelphia, Decdndria. Calyx 5-parted, with lan- 

 ceolate, subulate, bearded segments. Corolla papilionaceous, 

 shorter than the calyx. Stamens diadelphous. Legume straight, 

 exserted, constantly composed of numerous, compressed, semi-or- 

 bicular, 1 -seeded joints, which open at the convex suture. Ame- 

 rican herbs, with pinnately trifoliate leaves, the leaflets oval or 

 oblong, and stipellate. Stipulas distinct from the petioles, rather 

 scarious. Bracteas like the stipulas, but broader. Pedicels twin 

 in the axils of the bracteas. Racemes terminal, crowded, almost 

 constituting a panicle. Flowers small, bluish-purple. This 

 genus differs from Uraria in the legume being straight and ex- 

 serted, and from Desmbdium in the calyx being 5-parted and 

 bearded. 



1 N. BARBARA (D. C. 1. c.) leaflets elliptic-oblong; calyx 

 closed after flowering ; legumes glabrous. 1$. . 1 Tj . ? S. Native 

 of Jamaica and St. Domingo, in arid sandy places. Hedysarum 

 barbatum, Lin. spec. 1055. Swartz, obs. 287. Flowers bluish- 

 purple. 



Z?irrferf-calyxed Nicolsonia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1818. PI. 

 procumbent. 



2 N. CAYENNE'NSIS (D. C. leg. t. 51.) leaflets elliptic-obovate ; 

 calyx spreading after flowering ; legumes smoothish. I/ . S. 

 Native of Cayenne. Flowers bluish-purple. Racemes looser, 

 and the pedicels are longer than the first species, but very 

 similar. 



Var. ft, laxiuscula (D. C. prod. 2. p. 325.) leaflets elliptic- 

 obovate, and a little more villous beneath than the species ; le- 

 gumes rather scabrous ; stamens monadelphous. Tf.. S. Native 

 of Cayenne. Perhaps a proper species. 



Cayenne Nicolsonia. PI. procumbent. 



3 N. VENU'STULA (D, C. prod. 2. p. 325.) stems suffruticose, 

 erect, and are, as well as the petioles, clothed with adpressed 

 pubescence ; leaflets oblong-elliptic, clothed with silky, glauces- 

 cent pubescence beneath ; racemes terminal, short, sessile ; calyx 

 pilosely bearded ; legumes with 1-3 semi-orbicular hairy joints. 



1; . S. Native of Cumana, on the declivity of mount Turimi- 

 quiri. Hedysarum venustulum, H. B. et Kunth, 1. c. 

 Pretty Nicolsonia. Shrub 2 feet. 



