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' 40. Si. americana, L. Stem virgate, pilose, herbaceous or snffrutesceut ; leaflets . 

 10-20(-7)-jugal, oblong-linear, oblique at tlie base, mucronate, %-4i-nened; stipules calcarate ; 

 racemes few-flowered ; calyx bilabiate ; lomeiitum shortly stipitate, incurved, 8-4(-2)- 

 jointed, contracted at the dissepiments : joints half-round, rectilinear on the superior, roundish 

 on the inferior margin. — SI. t. 118./. 3. — Stem 3'-2' high; flowers 3'" long, yellow or 

 purplish ; lomentum-joints glabresceut, li'" diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., common in / 

 wet pastures ; S. Kitts 1, \Els.; S. Vincent !, Trinidad I ; [Guba I and Mexico 1 to Jfrazil !]. 



41. IE. brasiliana, DC. Stem erect, herbaceous or suffrutescent, glandular-pilose, 

 (or glabreseent) ; leaflets 4-&-Jiiffal, obovate-oblong, uninerved, veiny : stipules lanceolate ; 

 racemes exceeding the leaves, simple or compound : branches few-flowered ; calyx S-fid ; 

 lomentum long-stipitate, straight, reflexed, 3-^(-l)-jointed, contracted at the dissepiments : 

 joints half-round, rectilinear on the superior, rounded on the inferior, flatly depressed margin. 



— A. paucijuga, 1)0. — ^Flowers 2'" long ; lomentum-joints li'" diara., glandular or glabrous. 

 — Hab. Trinidad I Lockh., Cr., in savannahs and along roadsides, scarce ; [Cuba !, Vene- 

 zuela! to Brazil I and Peru I], 



12. ZOBNIA, Gmel. ^^ U.y^f 

 (Myriadenus, Besv.) ' 



Calyx bilabiate, bibracteolate. Standard roundish, folded : wings transversely rugulose. 

 iS{<s»zen« monadelphojis. Lomentum compressed: joints many to 2. — Herbs; leaves digitate: 

 leaflets 2-4, usually dotted: stipules with a basilar appendage; inflorescence yroiB the 

 uppermost axils or terminal. 



42. Z. diphylla, Pers. Annual, difliise ; leaflets 2, ovate or lanceolate, pointed ; ^ 

 flowers distant In peduncled spikes; superior calyx-lip emarginate-obtuse, inferior 3 -fid; ^ 

 lomentum-joints 2-7, roundish, convex and muricate, or reticulated, on the sides. — Mart, j 

 Fl. Bras. 24. t. 21, 22. — Hedysarum, L. Z. reticulata, Sm. Z. gracilis, DC. Z. havanenais, 

 Rich. — Variable in the pubescent down, the dots in the leaves and bracts, the shape of the . 

 leaflets, the size of the flowers, and the glochides of the lomentum ; flowers yellow, concealed 



in the stipular bracts. 



a. reticulata, ^taih. Leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate (6"'-l 2'" long) ; corolla 4"'-6"' 

 long. 



j8. elatior, Benth. leaflets lanceolate (12"'-18"' long) j corolla 6'" long.— i^V. Bras. I. c. 

 t. 21./. 1. 



7. vulgaris, Benth. Leaflets ovate (4"'-6"' long) ; corolla 3"'-4"' long. 



Hab. Jamaica 1 (a, j8), March, Al., Wullschl. ; Dominica I (7), Imr. ; Barbardoes !, 

 Lane ; Trinidad ! (iS), Cr. ; [New Mexico to Rio Grande do Sul ! ; all trop. countries]. 



Sloane's figure (t. 116. f. 3), quoted erroneously as the Brazilian Z. myriadena, Benth., 

 refers to an unknown Jamaica plant with 4 leaflets, found by Sloane in the savannah near Two- 

 mile-wood. 



13*. LOUREA, Neck 



Calyx 5-fid, reticulated-veiny, at length inflated. Standard obcordate. Stamens diadel- 

 phous. Lomentum compressed, contracted between the joints. — Herbs ; leaves digitate, 8- 

 foliolate, or reduced to a single leaflet.; racemes terminal. 



43*. Xi. vespertilionis, Besv. Leaflets single, bilobed ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, blunt, 

 divaricate. — Jacq. Lc. Rar. 3. t. 566. — Hedysarum, £.— Annual, erect ; corolla white. — 

 Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica I, Pd. ; S. Kitts I, S. Vincent I, Trinidad !, Sieb. Trin. 83 ; [in- 

 troduced from the East Ladies]. 



14*. ALYSICARPUS, Neck. 



Calyx tubular, bilabiate or 5-fid. Stamens diadelphous. Lomentum cylindrical or 

 slightly compressed : joints several. — Sufirutescent herbs ; leaflets single : stipules searious ; 

 flowers racemose. 



44*. A. vag^inalis, DC. Diffuse ; leaflets oval or oblong-linear : petiole nearly as long 

 as the sheathing stipules ; calyx 5-fid : lobes subulate, rigid ; lomentum nearly cylindrical : 

 joints retiealated, truncate at their ends. — A. nummularifoUus, DC: a form with the lomen- 

 tum glabrous, and somewhat contracted between the joints. — The lomentum in the West 



