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LEGUMINOS^;. CLXIV. ALHAOI. CLXV. ALYSICARPUS. 



Leone. This species is remarkable in having pinnate leaves and 

 large stipulas. It is perhaps a species of Dicirma. 



Guinea Flemingia. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



Cult. The species of this genus are not worth cultivating, 

 unless in botanical gardens. They will grow well in any light 

 soil, and cuttings will root, if planted in a pot of sand, with a 

 hand-glass placed over them, in heat. 



SUBTRIBE III. ALHA'GEyE (plants agreeing with Alliagi 

 in some important characters). D. C. prod. 2. p. 352. Flowers 

 disposed in racemes (f. 45. A.) or spikes. Legumes almost te- 

 rete (f. 45. rf.). 



CLXIV. ALHA'GI (Aghul or Algid is the Arabic name of 

 the first species). Tourn. cor. 54. t. 489. Desv. journ. bot. 3. 

 p. 120. t. 4. f. 4. D.C. prod. 2. p. 352. Hedysarum species 

 of Lin. Manna, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 246. 



LIN. SYST. Diadelphia, Decandria. Calyx campanulate, 5- 

 toothed ; teeth small, nearly equal. Corolla papilionaceous, 

 with the petals almost equal in length, but the carina is a little 

 shorter than the vexillum, which is obovate and complicated. 

 Keel straight, obtuse ; wings rounded at the apex. Stamens 

 diadelphous. Ovary linear, many ovulate. Style filiform, gla- 

 brous, acute. Legume stipitate, rather woody, terete, torulose, 

 few-seeded, not articulated. Seeds reniform. Oriental sub- 

 shrubs or herbs, with simple leaves and minute stipulas, and 

 axillary spinose peduncles. Flowers few, red, disposed in 

 racemes along the peduncles. 



1 A. MAURORL'M (Tourn. 1. c.) stem shrubby ; leaves obovate- 

 oblong ; teeth of calyx acute. T; . G. Native of the deserts 

 of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and other eastern coun- 

 tries. Rauw. itin. 94. with a figure. Hedys. Alhagi, Lin. 

 spec. 1051. exclusive of some of the synonymes. Alhagi man- 

 nifera, Desf. 1. c. Ononis spinosa, Hasselq. ed gall. 1. p. 138. 

 2. p. 187. but not of Lin. Manna Hebraica, D. Don, prod. fl. 

 nep. 247. Spines strong, and longer than those of the follow- 

 ing. Flowers purple in the middle and reddish about the edges. 

 It is on this shrub that manna (Tnmgibin or Terengabin) is 

 found in Mesopotamia. It is chiefly gathered about Tauris, 

 where the shrub grows plentifully. Sir George Wheeler found 

 it growing in Tenos. Tournefort also found it in many places 

 in Armenia and Georgia. The manna is a natural exudation 

 from the leaves and branches of this shrub, which takes place 

 only in very hot weather. The Arabian writers believed that it 

 fell from the clouds upon the plant. At first the manna resem- 

 bles drops of honey, but soon thickens into solid grains, as big as 

 a coriander seed at most. It is collected with more or less care, 

 and is valued according to its purity, which is evinced by the 

 distinctness of the granulations. The manna of this country is 

 collected from the flowering ash, and has nothing to do with 

 Persian manna. 



Moors' Alhagi or Hebrew Manna. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1714. 

 Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



2 A. CAMELOHUM (Fisch. cat. hort. gor. 1812. p. 72.) stem 

 herbaceous ; leaves lanceolate, obtuse ; teeth of calyx mani- 

 festly obtuse. I/ . F. Native of Caucasus, about the Caspian 

 Sea, Tartary, and in Middle Iberia, in arid fields. Hedys. 

 pseudo-Alhagi, Bieb. fl. taur. et suppl. no. 1442. Hedys. 

 Alhagi, Le'rche, nov. act. cur. 5. p. 167. Alhagi pseudo-Alhagi, 

 Desv. 1. c. Manna Caspica, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 247. 

 Gmel. itin. 2. p. 29. Flowers red. Manna exudes from this 

 plant as from the last. 



Camel's Alhagi or Caspian Manna. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 

 1816. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



3 A. NIPAULE'NSIS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 352.) plant shrubby ; 

 leaves obovate, mucronulate, veinless, clothed with silky-silvery 

 down on both surfaces ; calyxes longer than the pedicels ; teeth 



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acute, J? . G. Native of Nipaul, near Sitaucund. Flowers 

 red. Manna Nepaulensis, D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 217. Hedys. 

 Hamilton!!, Spreng. syst. 3. p. 316. 



Nipaul Alhagi or Manna. Fl. April. Shrub 1| to 2 feet. 



Cult. These plants require to be grown in pots filled with a 

 mixture of sand, loam, and peat, in order that they may be shel- 

 tered in winter in a greenhouse. Young cuttings will root if 

 planted in sand, with a bell-glass placed over them ; but seeds, 

 if they can be procured, is a preferable mode of increasing the 

 plants, which should be raised on a hot-bed. 



CLXV. ALYSICA'RPUS(from Xv<7. c , alysix, a chain, and 

 Kapvoc, harfos, a fruit ; in reference to the shape of the legume, 

 which is composed of many 1 -seeded joints, giving the whole 

 the appearance of a chain). Neck. elem. no. 1315. Desv. 

 journ. bot. 3. p. 120. t. 4. f. 8. D. C. prod. 2. p. 352. Hallia, 

 Jaume, journ. bot. 3. p. 60. but not of Thunb. Fabricia, Scop, 

 but not of Gaertn. 



LIN. SYST. Diadelphia, Decandria. Calyx campanulate, 

 permanent, 5-cleft (f. 45. a.) ; segments equal, lanceolate, acute 

 (f. 45. a.). Corolla small, papilionaceous (f. 45. c.). Stamens 

 diadelphous. Legume (f. 45. rf.) constantly composed of many 

 closed, 1 -seeded joints (f. 45. e.\ which are equal on both 

 sides, terete, or compressed, at length separating from each 

 other. Indian and African herbs, with scarious stipulas and 

 bracteas, and simple, linear, oval or roundish, entire leaves. 

 Racemes of flowers opposite the leaves and terminal, bearing 

 pedicellate, twin, or solitary, distant flowers, which are either 

 yellow or purple, and hardly longer than the calyx. 



* Joints of legume smooth or irregularly nerved. 



1 A. BUPLEURIFOLICS (D.C. prod. FIG. 45. 

 2. p. 352.) plant smooth ; leaves 

 lanceolate-linear, acute ; stipulas 



rather longer than the petioles ; 

 lobes of calyx puberulous ; le- 

 gumes te.'ete, moniliferous, gla- 

 brous with 2-4 joints, a little longer 

 than the calyx. Tj . S. Native 

 of the East Indies. Hedys. rugo- 

 sum, Sieb. fl. maur. exsic. no. 153. 

 Hedys. bupleurif olium, Lin. spec. 

 1081. Burm. ind. 163. Roxb. 

 cor. 2. t. 19i. Sims, bot. mag. 

 1722. Hedys. gramineum, Retz. 

 obs. 5. p. 26. Wendl. hort. herr. 

 1 . t. 5. Hedys. Cochin-chinense, 

 Schranck, hort. monac. 3. t. 23. 

 Flowers red. (f. 45.) 



Far. /3, /<3?&n</u (Burm. herb, D. C. prod. 2. p. 352.) lower 

 leaves roundish, as in^. nummitlarifolius, but the upper ones are 

 oblong and acute, as in A. bupleurif blius, and the upper stipulas 

 are longer than the petioles. 



Hare's-ear-leaved Alysicarpus. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1793. 

 PL 1 to 2 feet. 



2 A. VAGINA'LIS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 353.) stem rather rough 

 from short hairs ; leaves rather cordate at the base, oval or 

 oblong mucronulate, glabrous, but with the margins and middle 

 nerve rather pubescent ; stipulas length of petiole ; legume terete, 

 reticulated, 4-5-jointed, rather pubescent, much longer than the 

 calyx. 0. S. Native of the East Indies and of Senegal. 

 Burm. zeyl. t. 49. f. 1. Hedys. vaginale, Lin. spec. 1051. fl. 

 zeyl. 287. Hedys. ovalif olium, Vahl. in herb. Desf. Hedys. 

 bupleurifdlium, Sieb. pi. seneg. exsic. no. 39. Flowers red. 



Sheathed Alysicarpus. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1790. Pl.pr. 



3 A. NUMMULARIFOLIUS (D. C. prod. 2. p. 353.) plant gla- 



