A lysicarpus.] 
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with nearly all the leaves lanceolate or linear. It includes A. styracifolia, W. and Arn. Prod. 
234, with short dense very hairy racemes and A. Wallicliii , W. and Arn. l.c., with elongated 
nearly glabrous racemes. The Australian specimens have the habit of the latter with the hairs 
nearly of the former. De Candolle’s specimen of A. styracifolia is nearer to A. Wallichii, W. 
and Arn. The original Hedysarum styracifolmm, Linn., is very properly referred by W. and 
Arn. to a very different plant, Desmodium retroflexum, DC., which is surely a true Desrnodium 
(sect. Nicolsonia), not an Uraria. Alysicarpus Heyneanus, W. and Arn. l.c., must probably be 
considered as another form of A. rugosus. — Bentli. 
48. LESPEDEZA, Mich. 
(After M. Lespedeza.) 
Calyx-lobes or teeth nearly equal or the two upper ones shortly united. 
Standard orbicular, obovate or oblong, narrowed into a claw, or rarely obtuse at 
the base ; wings free ; keel obtuse or rostrate. Upper stamen free or rarely united 
with the others ; anthers reniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, with a single 
ovule ; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Pod ovate or orbicular, flat, 
reticulate, indehiscent. — Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs. ‘Leaves pinnately 3-folio- 
late or rarely 1-foliolate ; leaflets entire, without stipellae. Stipules free, usually 
small or very deciduous. Flowers purple pink or white, in axillary clusters or, 
in species not Australian, in axillary racemes or terminal panicles. 
The genus is spread over North America, temperate, especially eastern Asia, and the moun- 
tains of E. India and the Archipelago. 
1. I>. cuneata (wedge shaped), G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 307 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. ii. 240. Kootstock thick and woody; stems several, decumbent ascending 
or erect, stiff and but little branched, usually 1 to 2, but sometimes 3 or 4ft. 
long, hoary-pubescent or at length glabrous. Leaves usually crowded, the leaflets 
linear-cuneate, mostly under |in., but occasionally f or even lin. long, hoary or 
silky underneath, the common petiole 1 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Stipules 
small, subulate. Flowers pink-purple, in dense axillary clusters ; those in the 
upper axils nearly all complete, about 3 lines long, those of the lower clusters 
mostly apetalous, with imperfect stamens. Calyx line long, the lobes rigid, 
very acute, longer than the tube, the two upper ones united to the middle. 
Bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, acute. Keel curved, obtuse. Pod sessile, nearly 
orbicular, slightly acute, 1 to 1^ line diameter. — L. juncea, DC. Prod. ii. 348, in 
part ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 230, but not the Siberian L. juncea, Pers. 
Hab.: Plentiful in southern Queensland. 
49. * VICIA, Linn. 
(Having binding, clasping tendrils.) 
Calyx-tube oblique, the teeth subequal. Standard obovate, narrowed into a 
broad claw ; keel shorter than the wings. Stamens usually diadelphous, the 
sheath with a very oblique mouth. Ovary subsessile or stipitate, 2 or many- 
ovulate. Style inflexed, filiform or slightly flattened, bearded at the apex or 
pubescent throughout. Pod compressed, 2-valved, 2 or many-seeded. — Herbs, 
with equally pinnate leaves ending in a twisting tendril. 
A large genus, spread over the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
Pod glabrous, 6 to 9-seeded. Flowers middle-sized, solitary, sessile 1. V. sativa. 
Pod hairy, 2-seeded 2. V. hirsuta 
Subgenera I. Euvicia. — Annuals or perennials, with the style conspicuously 
bearded on the lower side at the tip. 
1. V. sativa (cultivated), Linn.; var. segetalis, Ser. An annual or biennial, 
from a few inches to 2 or 3ft. high, with about 4 to 7 pairs of leaflets, and sessile 
usually solitary purple flowers. 
Hab.: This and some other varieties have become weeds in cultivation paddocks. 
