408 XLIII. LEGU MINOS/E. [JEschynomene. 
Hub.: Broaclsound, R. Brown ; on the Burdekin, F. v. Mueller ; Wide Bay, Bidwill; plains of 
Rockhampton, Bowman, Dallachy ; Moreton Bay, Bidwill, F. v. Mueller. 
The species is common in Brazil, where it diverges into a number of varieties mentioned in 
Martin’s above-quoted Flora. The Australian form appears to me quite identical with the 
variety there named paueijuga, which is the most common in S. Brazil and Montevideo, and 
which is also the one found in S.E. Africa and Madagascar. — Bentli. 
41. SMITHIA, Ait. 
(After Sir J. E. Smith.) 
Calyx deeply divided into 2 lips, the upper one entire or notched, the lower 
entire 8-toothed or 3-lobed. Standard nearly orbicular, narrowed into a short 
claw, wings and keel nearly as long as the standard. Stamens united in a 
sheath open on the upper side and soon splitting also on the lower side ; anthers 
reniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with several ovules ; style filiform, with a 
small terminal stigma. Pod consisting of 2 or more flattened articles, separated 
by very narrow contractions and folded over each other within the calyx. — 
Diffuse herbs or in some African species shrubs. Leaves pinnate, without 
stipellae. Stipules membranous or scarious. Flowers yellow, in axillary 
racemes or clusters. Bracts and bracteoles scarious or striate, persistent. 
'The genus has a considerable number of tropical Asiatic and E. African species. The only 
Australian one is one of the commonest in E. India. — Bentli. 
1. S. conferta (crowded), Sm. in Bees' Cyclop, xxxiii. ; Bentli. FI. Anstr. ii. 
228. A procumbent or diffuse perennial of 1 to 1-J-ft. or rarely more, glabrous 
except a few long rigid hairs or bristles on the young branches, petioles, margins 
and midribs of the leaflets, and on the calyx. Leaflets 7 to 15 or more, rather 
crowded on a short common petiole, oblong or linear, oblique, under |in. long. 
Stipules produced below their insertion into a subulate-acuminate appendage 
longer than the upper part. Racemes reduced to clusters of 8 to 5 flowers, 
almost sessile in the upper axils. Bracteoles broad, striate, above half the length 
of the calyx. Calyx 3^ to 4 lines long, the lips slightly falcate, acute, mucronate, 
finely striated. Ovules about 6. Pod not protruding from the calyx. — 8. capitata, 
Desv. Journ. Bot. i. (iii.) 121 ; S. sensitiva, var. B. W. and Arn. Prod. 220. 
Hab.: Common in tropical Queensland ; common also in E. India and in the Archipelago. 
42. *ARACHIS, Linn. 
(Ancient name.) 
Calyx tube filiform, the lobes membranous, the 4 upper ones connate, the 
lowest thin, distinct. Petals and stamens inserted into the apex of the tube. 
Standard suborbicular. Wings oblong, free, keel incurved, rostrate. Stamens 
all connate in a closed tube, sometimes only 9 ; anthers alternately longer and 
shorter, fixed near the base and versatile. Ovary subsessile at the base of the 
tube, 2 or 3-ovulate, the torus after the flower falls becoming an elongated, deflexed, 
rigid stalk, forcing the fruit into the ground, the apex acute, and after the style 
falls terminated by a stigma-like callus ; style long, filiform ; stigma minute, 
terminal. Pod ripening beneath the soil, oblong, reticulate, indehiscent, sub- 
torulose, but not articulated, continuous within. Seeds 1 to 3, irregularly ovoid. — 
Low, often prostrate herbs. 
A small genus, this species African (?), the other species confined to Brazil. 
1. A. hypogaea (below the earth), Linn. Earth nut, pea nut or ground 
nut. Stems 1 to 2ft., long, herbaceous, diffuse, the branches clothed especially 
above with spreading hairs. Stipules lin, deep, the lower half adnate, the points 
