JEscJiynoniene.'] 
LEGUMINOSJE. 
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uniform. Ovary stalked, linear, with 4-6 ovules ; style filiform, in- 
curved ; stigma capitate. Pod linear, distinctly stalked, dividing into 3-6 
square indehiscent flattened joints, with the seed raised in the middle. 
— Herbs or shrubs with close sensitive imparipinnate leaflets, and few 
flowers in lax racemes. Distbib. Bound the world in the tropics. 
Species 30. 
Leaflets few, firm. Stipules firm, not spurred, persis- 
tent 1. M . MICRANTHA. 
Leaflets many, membranous. Stipules membranous, 
spurred, deciduous * 2E. sensitiva. 
1. .ffi. micrantha, DC. Prod. ii. 321. A low perennial, with slender 
wiry branched stems obscurely hairy upwards. Leaves short-petioled ; 
leaflets 4-5, oblong, sessile, obtuse, sensitive, J in. long, firm, glabrous ; 
stipules minute, lanceolate, striated, not spurred. Flowers few, in very 
lax axillary peduncled racemes ; pedicels short, ascending. Calyx in. 
long, glabrous, striated, with two deep lanceolate lips. Corolla pale 
yellow, £ in. long. Pod stalked, \-\ in. long, straight ; joints 3-4, 
square; upper suture slightly, lower deeply indented. Harv. and Sond. 
FI. Cap. ii. 224. 
Mauritius, in damp savannas near Maison Blanche. Also Natal, not Tropical 
Africa. Trefle a Jleurs jaunes. 
# ^F. sensitiva , Sw. ; DC. Prod. ii. 320, (uF. patula, Poir.; Bojer, 
Hort. Maur. 96), common in Tropical America, rare in tro- 
pical Africa, is said by Bojer to be naturalized in Mauritius, 
round Mont Plaisir, and in other places. It is a branched shrubby 
perennial, with glandulose branchlets, la/rge lanceolate membra- 
nous spurred deciduous stipules, short-petioled imparipinnate 
leaves with 20 or more pairs of sessile ligulate obtuse membranous 
sensitive leaflets \ in. long, flowers 3-4 in lax terminal corymbs, 
deeply bilibiate calyx % in. deep, pale yellow middle-sized corolla, a 
straight pod lf-2 in. long, with 4-6 glabrescent square joints, deeply 
waved along the lower suture. 
7. ZOBNIA, Gmel. 
Calyx minute ; upper teeth short, connate ; lowest shorter than the 
two side ones. Corolla papilionaceous, much exserted ; keel incurved, 
acute. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers dimorphic. Ovary sessile, 
many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved ; stigma capitate. Pod of several 
small round flattened indehiscent 1-seeded muricated joints. — Annuals 
with large persistent coriaceous bracts in pairs, and leaves with a 
single pair of sessile leaflets. Distbib. Species 10, all but two 
American. 
1. Z. diphylla, Pers. ; Benth. in Mart. FI. Bras. xv. 82, t. 21-22. 
Stems wiry, ascending or spreading, much-branched, f-1 ft. long, 
