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CALYCIFLORj'E. 
Small herbaceous or suffruticose plants ; stems branched ; 
leaves 3-foliate ; stipules adnate to the petiole; spikes termi- 
nal, dense, with imbricated stipules and bracteas ; flowers small, 
yellow. They are destitute of beauty or of any useful property. 
The name is derived from ffruXog a style, and ctvOog a flower. 
1. Stylosanthes procumbens. Procumbent Stylo- 
santhes. 
Stem procumbent appresso-pubescent at the apex, 
leaflets oblong acute glabrous, spikes many-flowered. 
Anonis non spinosa minor glabra procumbens, flore luteo, 
Sloane, I. 187. t. 110. f. 2. — Trifolium procumbens, Browne , 
298. — Stylosanthes procumbens, Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 1282. 
HAB. Common in pastures. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Suffrutescent, 2-6 inches in length. Leaflets entire, obliquely 
lineated. Flowers yellow. Calycine tube filiform ; limb 5- 
partite, with the division opposite to the standard the longest. 
Standard emarginate. Stigma pubescent. Legume 1-2 jointed; 
joints 1 -seeded, with the terminal joint hooked: seeds oblong, 
subreniform. 
2. Stylosanthes viscosa. Clammy erect Stylosanthes. 
Stem suffrutescent erect, branches viscoso-hirsute, 
leaflets elliptic mucronate serrulato-ciliated slightly 
hirsute, spikes few-flowered. 
Loto pentaphyllo siliquosa similis, Anonis non spinosa, foliis 
cisti instar glutinosis et odoratis, Sloane, I. 186. t. 119. f. 1 
Trifolium suberectum subhirsutum, Browne, 299. — Stylosanthes 
viscosa, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 1285. 
HAB. Common in dry pastures and by the road-sides. 
FL. Towards the end of the year. 
Suffruticose, erect, 6-10 inches in height; branches subterete, 
striated, hirsute with hairs tipt with minute pellucid clammy 
globules. Leaflets ciliated, slightly puberulous above, pubes- 
cent beneath. Stipules deltoideo-lanceolate, acute, ciliated. 
Spike terminal, leafy ; flowers few, small, orange-coloured, 
solitary and subsessile in the axil of a leaf, and partially pro- 
tected by the stipules. Bracteoles 2, close to the calyx, and 
half the length of its tube, linear, ciliated. Calycine tube long, 
filiform, unequally 5-fid ; the segment, which is opposite to the 
keel, lanceolate, acute ; the rest opposite, villoso-ciliated. Stan- 
dard reflected, rounded, emarginate ; wings oblique ; keel small, 
bifid at the apex. Stamens monadelphous, free towards the 
apex. Ovary lineari-oblong : style long, passing up the tube 
of the calyx and entering the corolla to be enclosed in the co- 
