LEGUMINOS.li. 
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pules sagittato-dentate marked, flowers sessile sub- 
geminate, legumes compressed subtorulose, seeds 
subglobose slightly velvety. 
Linn. Sp. 1037. 
1IAB. Common in the Port-Royal and St Andrew’s moun- 
tains. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
This is a valuable agricultural plant, extensively cultivated 
in Europe for summer and winter fodder. 
XX. Pisum. Pea. 
Calycine divisions leafy. Standard large, reflected. 
Style compressed, keeled, villous above. Seeds sub- 
globose, with a roundish hilum. 
1. Pisum sativum. Common Pea. 
Petioles terete trijugate, stipules ovato-sub-semi- 
cordate crenated, peduncles many-flowered. 
Linn. Sp. 1 026. 
HAB. Cultivated. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
The Pea is very generally cultivated throughout the Island, 
and bears at any period of the year. A creolized variety of the 
rounceval, known in the country by the name of the Lynch 
Pea, is the most prolific. The Pois-mange-tout, or Pois-goulus 
of the French, Greedy Pea of the English, bears only in the 
higher mountains. 
Tribe V. Pliaseolece. 
Legume many-seeded , , dehiscent. Leaves not cir- 
rhose ; the Jirst pair opposite. — De Cand. 
XXI. Abrus. 
Calyx obsoletely 4-lobed, with the upper lobe 
broader than the rest. Standard acute. Stamens 9, 
concrete at the base into a sheath which is open above. 
Stigma obtuse. Legume oblong, 4-6-seeded : seeds 
separated by cellulose isthmi, subrotund. 
Name, from a/3go; elegant. 
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