Zornia
(named after John Zorn, of Bavaria, 1739-1799, a botanical author). Including Myriadenus. ORD. Leguminosae. A genus consisting of half-a-score species of stove or greenhouse, annual or perennial herbs, all American, one being also found in South Africa. Flowers interruptedly spicate or solitary, on axillary and terminal peduncles. Pods compressed. Leaves digitately two or four-foliolate; leaflets often pellucid-dotted. Several species have been introduced, but they are more curious than beautiful. Probably, Z. tetraphylla is no longer in cultivation.
Z. tetraphylla (four-leafleted). fl. yellow; bracts glabrous, as long as the pods, five-nerved. July. fr., pods prickly; prickles somewhat scabrous. l., leaflets four, digitate, oblong, acuminate. h. 6in. Carolina, 1824. Greenhouse perennial. SYN. Anonymos bracteata.