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CAI.YCI FLORAS. 
Flowers whitish tinged with purple. Peduncle compressed, 
striated, pubescent: pedicels 3-4 together, 1| inch in length, 
filiform, furnished with 3 small lanceolate bracteas at the in- 
sertion ; clusters of pedicels distant. Calyx externally pubes- 
cent, sub-bilabiate; upper lip 2-fid with the divisions approxi- 
mating ; lower 3-partite with the divisions subequal, lanceolate. 
Standard obcordate. Legume resembling a hare’s foot in mi- 
niature, subterete, compressed, hispid with minute hooked 
hairs ; joints 5-7, oblong ; the terminal one apiculated with a 
persistent portion of the style. 
According to De Candolle, the racemes are opposite to a 
leaf ; but I have not observed this in any specimen I have met 
with. — Browne found this species a little beyond Guy’s Hill. 
It is very common by the roadsides in Port-Royal mountains. 
10. Desmodium triflorum. Three-flowered, Des- 
modium. 
Stem filiform procumbent rooting pubescent, leaf- 
lets obcordate glabrous above puberulous along the 
nerves beneath, pedicels axillary 2-3 together 1- 
flowered, joints of the legumes 3-i< semiorbiculate 
hispidulous. 
Iledysarum triflorum, Swartz , Ohs. 288. t. 6. f. 1. 
HAB By the road sides, and in cane-piece intervals. 
FL. November. 
A small plant common on our plains, by the roadsides and 
in pastures. The flowers are minute, and, according to Swartz, 
open about 10 o’clock in the morning, and close at 4 in the af- 
ternoon. It is a native of different parts of the East, as well 
as the West Indies. 
# # Papilionaceous plants , with the cotyledons thick 
and fleshy. 
Tribe IV. Viciecp . 
Legume many-seeded, dehiscent. Leaves cirrhose; 
the first pair alternate. 
XIX. Vicia. Vetch. 
Calyx tubulose, .5-fid or 5-dentate. Stamens dia- 
delphous. Style bearded beneath the stigma. Seed 
with an oval or linear hilum. 
1. Vicia sativa. Common Vetch or Tare. 
Leaflets 10-12 oblongo-retuse mucronulate, sti- 
