294 
nearly sessile, very short, 1-4-flowered: legumes erect: flowerm 
small, on short pedicels, yellow. 
Malabar. Peninsula. Flewering in July and August, 
(8) S. procumbens. (W. & A.) 
Tdent. W. & A. prod. I. p. 215. 
Syn. Eschynomene procumbens, Roxb. fl. Ind. WII. p. 337. 
Spec. Cuan. Annual, diffuse, armed with inoffensive prickles = 
leaflets about 20 pair: peduneles short, 2-3-flowered : legumes li-. 
near, erect, cuspidate: flowers yellow. 
Coromandel, on wet pasture lands, flowering in September and 
October. 
GENUS XXIII. ORMOCARPUM. 
Diadelphia Deeandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Ormos, a necklace, and Carpos, fruit, in allusion, 
to the moniliform legume. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs: calyx bibracteolate at the base, 5-cleft,. 
more or less bilabiate: corolla papilionaceous : vexillum broad, 
entire: keel obtuse: the petals slightly cohering at the back : le-' 
gumes stalked, jointed, the joints oblong and marked longitudinally- 
with strise and warts, separating readily from each other, 1-seeded.. 
(1) O. SznnorpEs. (Dec.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 216.—Deec. prod. II. p. 315. 
Syn. Hedysarum sennoides, Willd. Roxb. fi. Ind. III. p. 364. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 292. 
Srec. Cuar. Young shoots, petioles, peduncles and calyx co- 
vered with glutinous hairs: leaves unequally pinnated: leaflets 
alternate, 4~6 pair, obovate, retuse: stamens equally diadelphous,’ 
(5 and 5): legume 2-5-jointed, covered with prickly warts ; flowers. 
yellow, fragrant: racemes short, axillary. 
Circars. Vendalore. Flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS XXIV. ZORNIA. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. In honor of John Zorn, Author of ‘ Icones Plantarum 
Medicinalium.” ae 
Grn. Cuan. Usually herbaceous plants : leaves petioled ; leaf~ 
lets springing from the apex of the petiole: calyx campanulate, 
