188 LEGUMINOS^, 



high; flowers small, purple.— Hab. Trinidad 1, lockh., in sandy soil; [Venezuela I , to 



Brazil! and Peru]. 

 /^ 57. D. tortuosum, DO. Erect; stem striate-cylindrical : down uncinate ; leaflets 3, 



ovate or ovate-oblong, hispidulous or gkbrescent : stipules obliquely subulate ; racemes 

 ' simple : pedicels filiform, longer than the flower ; lomentum subsessile, uncinate-pubescent, 



tortuous, at length flattened, constricted nearly to the centre : joints 6-2, orbicular, flat. — SI. 



1. 116./. 1.— Hedysarum, Sw. D. stipulaceum, BC. D. pediceUatum, Grah. D. pulcherrimum, 



Shuttlew. I — 2'-3'high; flowers small, purple or pale-blue.— Hab. Jamaica!, Maef., M'Nab, 



Wullschl., common; Dominical, Imr.; [Cuba!, Guadeloupe!, Horida!, Mexico, New 



Granada ! ; naturalized in the East Indies I]. 



58. D. spirale, BC. Annual, flaccid, at length subscandent, rooting at the base"; 

 stem angular, glabrate ; leaflets 3 (-1), ovate or lanceolate : stipules setaceous or oblique at 

 the base by a minute dilatation ; racemes lax : pedicels filiform ; lomentum subsessile, unci- 

 nate-pubescent, vert/ tortuous, and lasting so; joints 8-2, rhomboid-orbicular, undulate- 

 flat. — Hedysarum, Sm. D. tenellum, Kth. D. teuuiculum, BC. D. sylvaticum, Benth. I 

 D. ospriostreptum, Steud. I D. Bigelowii, As, Or. I D. annuum. As. Gr. I — Herbaceous ; 

 flowers very small, greenish, variegated with purple. — Hab. Jamaica!, Macf., Bist., Al., 

 common j Antigua!, Wullschl.; Trinidad! C^.; [New Mexico! and Cuba! to Brazil! and 

 Peru ; tropical Africa !, Pacific islands I]. 



59. D. molle, BC. Erect; stem striate: down uncinate; leaflets 3, ovate, villous- 

 pubescent beneath: stipules subulate-setaceous; racemes paniculate: pedicels filiform; io- 

 mentum subsessile, tortuous, 2-jointed, superior enlarged joint fertile, membranaceous, flat, 

 elliptical, with a lateral notch, glabrate, inferior striate. — Hedysarum, V. — Flowers very 

 small. — Hab. Jamaica {JUacf.): [Haiti, S. Croix; Panama!, Venezuela! to CearaJ. 



16*. DENDKOLOBIUM, W. A. 



Calyx 4-fid, bibracteolate ; tube campanulate. Standard obovate ; keel blunt, devoid of 

 auricles. Stamens monadelphous. Lomentum compressed, with the style subpersistent : joints 

 several. — Arborescent shrubs ; leaves pinnately i-foliolate ; flowers in axillary, peduncled 

 umbels. 



60*. D. umbellatum, Benth. Branches and petioles viEous-pubescent ; leaflets oval, 

 pubescent beneath: costate veins 8-12-paired; peduncles exceeded by the petiole; lomen- 

 tum pubescent, glabrate : suture slightly notched, dorsal margin sinuate as deep as to the 

 middle: joints 3-1 (-4) — iarm. Zeyl. t. 51. — Hedysarum, L. — Flowers whitish. — Hab. 

 Natm'alized in Jamaica!, March; [introduced Irom the East Indies]. 



17. STYLOSANTHES, Sw. 



Calyx-tube filiform, caducous. Corolla inserted into the calyx-limb : standard roundish. 

 Stamens monadelphous ; anthers alternately unequal. Zomentum sessile, 2-1-jointed, usu- 

 ally l-seeded, mucronate by the uncinate style-base. — Werbs ; \e&ves pinnaiely A-foliolate : 

 stipules adnate to the petiole ; flowers yellow, in bracteate spikes, single or with an acces- 

 sory striate pedicel. 



61. S. procumbens, Sw. Procumbent or diffuse, pubescent; leaflets lanceolate- 

 oblong, pointed, glabrescent ; spikes ovate : flowers with an accessory, hairy pedicel : sti- 

 pular bracts rigid ; lomentum as long as the elongated, circinate becik, reticulated-costate, 

 usually reduced to a single joint. — SI. t. 119./. 2. — S. mucronata, W. S. humilis, Mch. 

 Cub. {non Kth). S. elatior, var. guadelupensis, BG. {non Sw.).— Stem suffirutescent at the 

 base, 1' to a few inches long. — Hab. Bahamas !, Jamaica I, aU coll., common in pastures ; 

 Antigua!, Wullschl.; [Mexico! and Cuba! to New Granada! and Venezuela!, tropical 

 Africa!, East Indies!]. 



_ 62. S. yiscosa, Sw. Difhse, viscous-pubescent ; leaflets elliptical-oblong, mucronate, 

 ciliate; spikes ovate : flowers devoid of an accessory pedicel; lomentum subquadrate, shortly 



mucronate vrith the uncinate style-base, reticulated, usually reduced to a single joint. 



SI. t. 119. /. 1. Kth. N. Gen. t. 595.— S. glutinosa, iff^JA.— Habit of the preceding, but 

 stem more erect, and covered with stipitate glands. — Hab. Jamaica !, td., Wullschl., conimon 

 in pastures; [Cuba! and Mexico! to Southern Brazil!]. 



