LEGUMINOS^E 



453 



adpressed, 1-1'5 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, 8-5 mm. thick, 

 fleshy. 



Stem slightly curved, terete, firm, glabrous, greyish-green ; 1st 

 internode 3-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. thick ; 3rd about the same ; 2nd 

 and 4th very short. 



Leaves imparipinnate (or one or more of the primary ones simple), 

 cauline, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, alternately incurvinerved and 

 reticulate, glabrous, deep green above ; stipules minute, apparently 

 caducous. 



No. 1. Shortly stalked, 

 2-5-3 cm. long, 5-6 mm. 

 broad, linear or linear-lanceo- 

 late, more or less acute, thinly 

 coriaceous, glabrous, dark 

 green. 



No. 2. Ditto. 



Nos. 3 and 4. Ditto, but 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate 

 at both ends with articulation 

 between blade and petiole. 



Edwardsia chilensis,Mers 

 (fig. 294). , 



Hypopotyl subterranean. 



Co ft/ /03dlfs not rising above 

 ground, thick, fleshy, flat on 

 one side and very convex 

 on the other, conforming to 

 the shape of the seed, green- 

 ish, 1*5 cm. long, 1 cm. 

 broad. 



Stem erect, terete, woody, 

 verrucose, pubescent, deep 

 green; 1st internode 6 mm. 

 long ; 2nd 3 mm. ; 3rd 4 mm. ; 

 4th 7 mm. ; 5th 7 mm. ; 6th 

 9-5 mm. ; 7th 1-2 cm. 



Leaves compound, impari- 

 pinnate, cauline, alternate, 



stipulate, petiolate, glabrous above and dark green, sparsely pubescent 

 on the under side, petiole and rachis paler green ; petiole-semiterete, 

 channelled on the upper side ; stipules small, tooth-like, incon- 

 spicuous. 



FIG. 294. Edwardsia chileiisis. Nat. size. 



