148 L. leguminosj:. (J. G. Baker.) \_Zomia. 



Plains from the Himaiatas to Ceyxon and Biema, ascending to 4000 ft. in 

 KnsiAON. — ^DisTRiB. Everywhere in the Tropics. 



Stems wiry, densely csespitose. Leaves petioled ; leaflets lanceolate, acnte, glabrous, 

 rigidly coriaceous, ^-1 in. long, dotted with black glands ; stipules lanceolate, with a 

 long spur. Racemes 1-3 in. long, 3-12-flower6d ; bracts orate, acute, nearly or quite 

 hiding the flower and pod. Joints 2-6, under ^ in., densely prickly. 



Vae. 1. zeylonmsis; leaflets ovate, pod much longer than the bracts, joints 

 twice as large densely bristly. Z. zeylonensis, Fers. ; DO. Prodr. ii. 317 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5661; W. i A. Prodr. 217 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 62. Z. conjugata. Smith in 

 Sees, Cyclop. ; Thwaites Emim. 85. Hedysarum conjugatum, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1178. 

 Plains of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



Vae. 2. Walkeri (Arn. Pugill. 12, sp.); leaflets oblong J-1 in. long, bracts 

 downy at the edge, pod scarcely exserted from the bracts, joints small reticulato- 

 venose with only a few small bristles near the edge. Walp. Hep. i. 726 ; JTiwaites 

 Enum. 85. — Ceylon, Walker, Thwaites.'] 



2,7, STYKOSAKTKES, Sw, 



Undershiubs. Leaves rigid, pinnately S-foliolate" Flowers inconspieuoiis, 

 in small dense heads. Calyx ■with an elongated filiform tube, and 5 teeth, 

 of which the upper 4 are suhconnate. Flowers polygamous, the fertile 

 ones often apetalous. Petals mserted at the throat of the calyx-tube ; standard 

 orbicular; keel subrostrate. <Same?isnionadelphou3; anthers diinorphous.- Ovary 

 subsessile at the base of the calyx-tube ; style long, filiform, the lower part pei^ 

 sistent, stigma minute capitate. Fod with 1-2 flattened rugose joints. — 

 DiSTEiB. Species about 15. Cosmopolitan, tropical. 



I. S. mucronata, WUU.\ DC. Prodr. ii. 318; Wall. Cat. 5664; 

 W. Sf A. Prodr. 218 ; BeM. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 294. Ajachis fruticosa, Retz. ; 

 Moxh. Sort. Beng. 64 ; Fl. Ind: iii. 282. Hedysarum hamatum, Burm. Fl. 

 Ind. 167 ; Fl. Zeyl. t. 106, fig. 2. 



Shores of "Western Peotnsto-a and Ceylon. — ^Disteib. Cape, Trop. Africa, Malay 

 isles. 



A low diffuse undershrub, with terete pubescent branches. Stipiiles scariose, 

 adnate downwards to the petiole ; leaflets ^—^ in. long, pale green, rigidly coriaceous, 

 oblong or lanceolate ; under-side a little pubescent at first. Flowers 1 or few, in 

 sessile terminal heads ; bracts persistent, striated, pubescent. Corolla ^ in., exserted. 

 Pod 1-2-joiuted, tipped with the falcate indurated lower part of the style. 



38. SDXXTHIA, Ait. 



Herbs or undershrubs. 'Leaflets many, small, sensitive, leaf-rachis ending 

 in a bristle ; stipules scariose, with large auricles. Flowers racemose or axil- 

 lary. Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the Ups usually entire. Corolla exserted ; stan- 

 dard orbicular ; keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary linear, many-ovuled ; style incurved, filiform, stigma minute 

 capitate. Pod of few or many minute fiattened or turgid joints, folded together 

 inside the calyx. — Disieib. Species 20-80, spread through the tropics of the old 



world. 



I 



' Calyx rigid, its veins close, parallel, simple. 



1. S. sensitiva, Ait. ; DC. P)-odr. ii. 323 ; stems not bristly, leaflets 

 small 4-20, flowers in short simple racemes, calyx-lips equal, corolla yellow. 

 Moxh. Hart. Beng. 56 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 342 ; Salisb. Par. t. 92 ; Wall. Cat. 6688, e.v 



