262 CALYCl FLORAE. 



Small herbaceous or suffruticose plants ; stems branched ; 

 leaves 3-foliate ; stipules adnate to the petiole ; spikes termi- 

 nal, dense, with imbricated stipules and bracteas ; flowers small, 

 yellow. They are destitute of beauty or of any useful property. 

 The name is derived from tfruXog a style, and avdog a flower. 



1. Stylosanthes procumbens. Procumbent Stylo- 

 santhes. 



Stem procumbent appresso-pubescent at the apex, 

 leaflets oblong acute glabrous, spikes many-flowered. 



Anonis non spinosa minor glabra procumbens, flore luteo, 

 Sloane, I. 187. t. 110. f. 2. Trifolium procumbens, Browne, 

 298. Stylosanthes procumbens, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1282. 



HAB. Common in pastures. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Suffrutescent, 26 inches in length. Leaflets entire, obliquely 

 lineated. Flowers yellow. Calycine tube filiform ; limb 5- 

 partite, with the division opposite to the standard the longest. 

 Standard emarginate. Stigma pubescent. Legume 1-2 jointed ; 

 joints 1 -seeded, with the terminal joint hooked : seeds oblong, 

 subreniform. 



2. Stylosanthes viscosa. Clammy erect Stylosanthes. 



Stem suffrutescent erect, branches viscoso-hirsute, 

 leaflets elliptic mucronate serrulato-ciliated slightly 

 hirsute, spikes few-flowered. 



Loto pentaphyllo siliquosa similis, Anonis non spinosa, foliis 



cisti instar glutinosis et odoratis, Sloane, I. 1S6. t. 119. f. 1 



Trifolium suberectum subhirsutum, Browne, 299. Stylosanthes 

 viscosa, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1285. 



HAB. Common in dry pastures and by the road-sides. 



FL. Towards the end of the year. 



Suffruticose, erect, 6-10 inches in height ; branches subterete, 

 striated, hirsute with hairs tipt with minute pellucid clammy 

 globules. Leaflets ciliated, slightly puberulous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath. Stipules deltoideo-lanceolate, acute, ciliated. 

 Spike terminal, leafy; flowers few, small, orange-coloured, 

 solitary and subsessile in the axil of a leaf, and partially pro- 

 tected by the stipules. Bracteoles 2, close to the calyx, and 

 half the length of its tube, linear, ciliated. Calycine tube long, 

 filiform, unequally 5-fid ; the segment, which is opposite to the 

 keel, lanceolate, acute ; the rest opposite, villoso-ciliated. Stan- 

 dard reflected, rounded, emarginate ; wings oblique ; keel small, 

 bifid at the apex. Stamens monadelphous, free towards the 

 apex. Ovary lineari-oblong: style long, passing up the tube 

 of the calyx and entering the corolla to be enclosed in the co- 



