82 BOTANY OF SOCOTRA. 



A very large genus of tropical regions in both hemispheres, a few species 

 extending into extra-tropical zones. 



D. triflorum, DC. Prod. ii. 334 ; Baker in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. ii. 166, 

 and in Hook Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 173. 



D. triflorum, B., Wight Ic. t. 292. 



Socotra. Not uncommon. B.C.S. n. 471. 

 Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



15. ALYSICARPUS. 



Alysicarpus, Neck, ex Desv. Jo-urn. Bot. i. (iii. 1813), 120, t. 4, f. 8 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 522. 



A genus generally distributed in tropical Asia and Africa. One species, 

 that found in Socotra, is now common in America. 



A. vaginalis, DC. Prod. ii. 353 ; Baker in Oliv. Flor Trop. Afr. ii. 170, 

 and in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 158. 



A. Harnieri, Schweinf. Reliq. Kotsch. 24, t. 19. 



Socotra. Occasional weed. B.C.S. n. 380. Schweinf. n. 495. 



Distrib. Tropics of old world. In America, introduced. 



The form of this somewhat variable plant which occurs in Socotra, is that 

 described as a species under the name A. nummularifolium, DC. (loc. cit). 

 It occurs both in the state with long delicate inflorescences and in that with 

 clustered flowers. 



16. TERAMNUS. 



Teramnus, Swartz Flor. Ind. Occid. iii. 1238, t. 25 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL i. 530. 



A tropical genus of four species, of which two are American, and two 

 are Asiatic, one of them reaching Africa. 



T. labialis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 235 ; Baker in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 180, and in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 184. 



var. mollis, Baker in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 184. 



Glycine mollis, Wight Ic. t. 168. 



Kennedya arabica, Hochst. et Steud. in herb. Schimp. Arab. Sect. i. n. 900. 



Socotra. At Tamarida and Galonsir. B.C.S. nn. 143, 243. Schweinf. 

 n. 287. 



Distrib. Tropics of both hemispheres. 



The Socotran plant is clothed with long spreading hairs, such as occur in 

 the variety mollis, and in the type of Kennedya arabica, Hochst. et Steud. 



