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LEGUMINOSiE. 
5. ALYSICARPUS, Neck. 
Calyx dry, with a turbinate tube, and 5 deep, of ten imbricated teeth. 
Corolla papilionaceous, not exserted from the calyx ; keel obtuse, ad- 
hering to the wings. Stamens 9 and 1, diadelphous ; anthers uniform. 
Ovary sessile or short-stalked ; ovules 4-8 ; styled incurved ; stigma 
capitate. Pod turgid, composed of 4-8 indehiscent joints. — Diffuse 
dry wiry annuals, with dry persistent stipules, simple leaves and 
copious flowers in lax racemes. Distrib. Species 15, common weeds 
through the tropics of the Old World. 
Calyx not longer than the first joint of the pod. 
Pod not constricted between the joints .... 1. A. nummularifolius. 
Pod distinctly constricted between the joints . . * A. monilifer. 
Calyx nearly or quite including the whole pod . . 2. A. bupleurifolius. 
1. A. nummularifolius, DC. Prod. ii. 353. A much-branched 
glabrous annual, with trailing wiry stems, ft. long. Leaves short- 
petioled, oblong, obtuse, or the lower nearly round, firm, venose, |-1| 
in. long ; stipules lanceolate, persistent. Racemes 2-3 in. long, 6-12- 
flowered ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx in. long ; teeth 
linear, exceeding the tube. Pod in. long, cylindrical, not con- 
stricted between the 5-6 joints, which are longer than thick, and 
rather wrinkled. 
Mauritius, in grassy places at Pamplemousses, etc.. Also Tropical Africa and 
Asia. A mere variety of A. vaginalis , D.C. ( Hedysarum , Linn). 
* A. monilifer , DC. Prod. ii. 353, which is common in Tropical Asia, 
rare in Tropical Africa, is said by Bojer to be a Mauritian plant, but I 
have not seen specimens. It is just like A. nummularifolius in habit, and 
has the same short calyx, but the pod is distinctly constricted between 
the smooth joints, which are not longer than thick. 
2. A. bupleurifolius, DC. Prod. ii. 352. A much-branched glabrous 
annual, with ascending wiry stems a foot long. Leaves short- petioled, 
simple, firm, oblong or lanceolate or linear, acute, 1-2 in. long. Flowers 
in long very lax terminal and lateral racemes, in 10-20 distant pairs on 
very short ascending pedicels. Calyx £ in. long, the ciliated lanceolate 
teeth twice as long as the funnel-shaped tube. Pod stalked, f-f in. 
long ; joints 4-6, slightly moniliform, as long as broad, quite smooth. 
Hedysarum bupleurifolium, Linn. 
Mauritius, frequent in dry soil, ascending the Pouce. Common through Tropi- 
cal Asia, hut not African. 
6. JESCHYNOMENE, Linn. 
Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the lips subentire. Corolla papilionaceous, 
exserted ; keel obtuse. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers 
