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inch or an inch and a quarter in length ; thofe of the lower 

 leaves half an inch broad. Spiies many-flowered, thrice as 

 long as the leaves. Flowers yellow ; the ftandard fometimes 

 purphfh. The braBeas afford a clear fpecific diftinftion, in 

 their ftrongly-marked, elevated, veiny reticulations, and the 

 total want of reiinous or glandular dots, though their whole 

 furface is minutely granulated, as it were, like thofe of the 

 foregoing fpecies. The legumes have three or four joints, 

 and their furface, as well as their prickles, is downy. They 

 are almoft entirely covered by the hradeas. 



3. "Z.. con]ugata. Ovate Zornia. (Hedyfarum conjuga- 

 tum; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1178. H. diphyllum &% 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 1053. H. n. 291, 8 ; Linn. Zeyl. 135. H. 

 bifolium, foliolis ovatis, filiculis afperis, geminis, inarticu- 

 latis ; Burm. Zeyl. 114. t. 50. f. I. Onobrychis maderaf- 

 patana diphyllos, filiculis afperis ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 102. f. i.) 

 — Leaflets two, ovate, uniform. Brafteas ovate, ribbed, 

 fringed, imperfectly reticulated, fhorter than the legume, 

 without glandular dots. Legume fringed ; its diik and 

 prickles fmooth. — Native of Ceylon and Tranquebar. 

 This fpecies approaches the laft in fize, but differs in many 

 eflential points. The leaflets are ovate, not near fo long as 

 their common footjlalk. Brad.eas more pointed and elongated 

 at the bafe, ribbed, but not ftrongly reticulated ; tneirfub- 

 i^ance quite deftitute of pellucid dots, though fome of them 

 occaConally bear little black opaque prominences, which 

 feem the effeft of injury, or are perhaps a minute parafitical 

 fungus. Legumes confiderably longer than the brafteas, 

 though each confifls of fcarcely more than two orbicular 

 joints, full twice the fize of either of the preceding fpecies, 

 from which they differ in the fmoothnefs of their diflc and 

 prickles, though fringed at the edge. The jlowers are 

 yellow. 



4. X. latifoUa. Broad-leaved Zornia. (Hedyfarum di- 

 phyllum ; Aubl. Guian. 774, excluding all the fynonyms. ) 

 — Leaflets two, roundifh-ovate ; the lower ones orbicular. 

 Brafteas linear-lanceolate, ribbed, fomewhat hairy, longer 



than the downy legumes Gathered in Guiana by Aublet, 



from whom we have fpecimens, which abundantly fliew his 

 plant to be different from any of the foregoing, and juftify 

 him in faying that, with refpeft to it at leall, Plukenet's 

 figures are bad. This has a woody, but perhaps annual, 

 root, and feveral proftrate Jlems, from fix inches to a foot 

 long, flraight, round, downy. Footjlalis alfo downy, ra- 

 ther longer than the leaflets, which in the lower leaves are 

 about half an inch in length, nearly orbicular, obtufe ; in 

 the upper gradually more elongated, ovate, orovato-lanceo- 

 late, acute ; all of them fomewhat hairy or filky, efpecially 

 beneath, where alfo they are a little glaucous. The narrow 

 hradeas, very differently fhaped from any of the three pre- 

 ceding fpecies, are the diftinguifliing charadleriftic of this: 

 they have three very ftrong crowded ribs, originating from 

 their point of infertion, below which is a blunt elongation 

 downwards, mofl like that of Z. reticulata ; they arc fome- 

 what hairy, as well as flightly fringed. Corolla yellow. 

 Legume of only two joints, unlefs any have been broken off, 

 which is not apparent ; the prickles downy, and the difk 

 quite woolly. Willdenow fpeaks of a fuppofed variety of 

 Hedyfarum diphyllum from Portoricco, which is larger than 

 the common ki»d, and whofe leaves are '■^ flrigofe beneath ;" 

 by which exprelfion is probably meant briftly, or hairy. 

 This, if not our Zornia latifolia, muft be a hitherto non- 

 defcript fpecies, of which we have not materials to give a 

 definition. 



^. 7..heterophilla. Various-leaved Zornia. (Hedyfarum 

 -etraphyllum ; Thunb. Aft. Nov. Upfal. v. 6. 44. t. 3. 



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Prodr. 132. WiUd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 1203. Lamarck Did. 

 v. 6. 405, variety 1)— Leaflets three or four, lanceolate. 

 Stipulas half-arrowfhaped. Bafe of the bradleas elongated 

 and acute. — Gathered by Thunberg in the interior part of 

 the country, above the Cape of Good Hope, near Galge- 

 bofch, flowering in November and December. Theflem it 

 herbaceous, decumbent, thread- fhaped, fmooth, a foot or 

 more in length. Footjlalks rather longer than the leaflets, 

 which are three or four together, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, hardly an inch long. Stipulas much elongated at the 

 bafe, acute at each end. Spikes axillary, many times 

 longer than the leaves, (at leaft the lower fpikes,) and con- 

 fifting often or twelve^/o-iwfrj, concealed by the ovate three- 

 ribbed bradeas, each of which is elongated at the bafe into 

 an ovate acute appendage, nearly half its own length. Le- 

 gume longer than the bracteas, of four joints, faid by Thun- 

 berg to be rough, but in what manner, or degree, is not 

 mentioned : his figure reprefents them fmooth and globofe, 

 which is evidently an inaccuracy. 



6. Z. tetraphylla. Four-leaved Zornia. Michaux Boreal. - 

 Amer. v. 2. 76. t. 41. Purfh n. i. (Z. brafteata ; Gmel. 

 n. I. Anonymos brafteata ; Walt. Carol. 181. Hedyfa- 

 rum tetraphyllum ; Lamarck Dift. v. 6. 405, a.) — Leaflets 

 four, lanceolate. Stipulas ovate. Bafe of the brafteaa 



fomewhat elongated, obtufe Native of fandy fields in 



Lower Carolina. Perennial, flowering in July and Auguil. 

 About a foot high, much branched. Flowers yellow. 

 Purjh. We have here ventured to diilinguifh this from the 

 laft-defcribed fpecies, by the charafters afforded in the 

 plates cited, without our having ever feen a fpecimen of 

 either. We are fully aware of the hazard of fuch a pro- 

 ceeding ; but as it is highly probable that a Cape plant will 

 hardly prove, on comparifon, the fame fpecies as a Carolina 

 one ; and the fpecies of this genus very nearly refemblecach 

 other, and have been much confounded, we propofe the 

 above cliaraftcrs. If the figure of Michaux be exaft, as 

 to the flipulas and bradeas, there can be no doubt on the 

 fubjeft, and it was drawn by nolefs an artilt tlian Redont^. 

 Thejlipulas are there reprefented perfeftly ovate, without 

 any fpur, or elongation, at the bale, and not half the ufual 

 fize in this genus. Thofe of Thunberg's plate are like the 

 reft of the fpecies. This is the moft important difference, 

 though the fhort and blunt fpur of the hradeas is very 

 ftriking alfo. "Thejlo-wers feem larger in thefe two laft, than 

 in any of the foregoing. 



On reviewing the whole genus, we cannot but repeat that 

 the abruptly-compounded leaves afford a moft important 

 mark of difference, compared with Hedyfarum, nor are the 

 yeWow flowers, in thi3cafe,entirely unworthyof confideration. 

 There is moreover fo clofe a refemblance between all the fpe- 

 cies of Zornia, as to induce a perfuafion of their conftituting 

 a very natural genus. The fame may be faid of Stylo- 

 SANTHES, to which we have already referred the reader as 

 being next akin to Zornia. 



Which of the above fix fpecies, or rather which of the 

 firft four, is entitled to a place in the Hortus Ke-wenfis, we 

 cannot prefume to determine. In v. 4. 340. of that work. 

 Dr. Houftoun is recorded as having fent to Milhr, before 

 the year 1733, fomething which has always paffed for Hedy- 

 farum diphyllum. This muft have come from South Ame- 

 rica, or the Weft Indies, and was therefore not Nelam-mari 

 of Rheede, our Zornia anguflifolia ; nor the conjugata, a 

 plant of Ceylon. It muft have been either the Weft Indian 

 reticulata, or more probably perhaps the South American 

 latifolia. 



ZOROANDA, Hazoob, in Ancient Geography, a place 



of 



