36 Legttminosce. [Smitkia. 



n. STYLOSANTHES, Sw. 



A dwarf, rigid under-shrub, 1. pinnately 3-foliolate, with 

 large stip., fl. few, in dense heads ; cal. tubular, the lowest 

 segm. longest; keel-pet. slightly beaked; stam. monadelphous, 

 dimorphic ; style long, straight ; pod of 1 or 2 flattened, 

 wrinkled, indehiscent, 1 -seeded joints. — Sp. 15 ; 1 in Fl B. Ind. 



S. mucronata, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1166 (1800). Wal-narm, S. 



Herm. Mus. 42. Burm. Thes. 226. Fl. Zeyl. n. 553. Hedysarum 

 hamatum. L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1057. Arachis fmticosa, Retz. Obs. v. 26. 

 Moon Cat. 54. Thw. Enum. 84. C. P. 145 1. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 148. Burm. Thes. t. 106, f. 2. Bedd. Ic. t. 294. 



A much-branched, dwarf, woody perennial, branches stiff, 

 wiry, ascending, hairy; 1. distant or crowded, rachis ^-f in., 

 stip. large, membranous, adnate to rachis for half its length 

 and forming a sheath round stem and terminating in 2 

 acicular spreading sharply spiny teeth, lflts. 3, shortly stalked, 

 \-\ in., the terminal rather the largest, lanceolate, strongly 

 mucronate, rigid, glabrous above, silky on the prominent 

 veins below and marked with groups of conspicuous black 

 dots ; fl. rather small, few, sessile in axils of leaf-like stipulate 

 bracts and forming small close terminal heads or spikes; 

 cal. membranous, splitting into laciniae in fruit ; pod very 

 short, concealed by persistent bracts, tipped by long curved 

 beak, joints pubescent, with raised veins. 



Dry and desert region ; common in the most arid places. Fl. March, 

 August; yellow. 



Also in Peninsular India, and in Malay Islands and Trop. and S. 

 Africa. 



I doubt the Sinhalese name above given. 



12. SIKXTHXA,* Alton. 



Annual or perennial herbs, 1. abruptly pinnate, the rachis 

 ending in a bristle, with large stip., fl. axillary, racemose, or 

 paniculate, with 2 persistent scarious bracts adpressed to cal. ; 

 cal. deeply divided into 2 lips which are either entire or lobed ; 

 stam. in 2 bundles of 5 each, anth. uniform ; pod very small, 

 enclosed in persistent cal., of 2-6, easily separable, seed-like, 

 1 -seeded joints. — Sp. about 30; 12 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* Commemorates Sir James Edward Smith, the purchaser of Linnaeus' 

 collections and founder and first President of the Linnean Society. 

 Died 1828. 



