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pules sagittato-dentate marked, flowers sessile sub- 

 geminate, legumes compressed subtorulose, seeds 

 subglobose slightly velvety. 



Linn. Sp. 1037. 



HAB. Common in the Port-Royal and St Andrew's moun- 

 tains. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



This is a valuable agricultural plant, extensively cultivated 

 in Europe for summer and winter fodder. 



XX. PISUM. Pea. 



Calycine divisions leafy. Standard large, reflected. 

 Style compressed, keeled, villous above. Seeds sub- 

 globose, with a roundish hilum. 



1. Pisum sativum. Common Pea. 



Petioles terete trijugate, stipules ovato-sub-semi- 

 cordate crenated, peduncles many-flowered. 



Linn. Sp. 1026. 



HAB. Cultivated. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



The Pea is very generally cultivated throughout the Island, 

 and bears at any period of the year. A creolized variety of the 

 rounceval, known in the country by the name of the Lynch 

 Pea, is the most prolific. The Pois-mange-tout, or Pois-goulus 

 of the French, Greedy Pea of the English, bears only in the 

 higher mountains. 



Tribe V. Phaseolece. 



Legume many-seeded, dehiscent. Leaves not cir- 

 rhose ; the first pair opposite. De Cand. 



XXI. ABRUS. 



Calyx obsoletely 4-lobed, with the upper lobe 

 broader than the rest. Standard acute. Stamens 9, 

 concrete at the base into a sheath which is open above. 

 Stigma obtuse. Legume oblong, 4-6-seeded : seeds 

 separated by cellulose isthmi, subrotund. 



Name, from a/3go; eleyant. 



