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inflata. C«?w&. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. iv. 34, t. 39 : fini 



leanets o bovate-cuneate 

 JW./owm. ii. 431. 



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General habit of the last, but not more than half a foot high. Eootstock woody, 

 TOely creeping. Leaves sessile ; leaflets fleshy, glaucous, |-2 5"- Stipules like the 

 jeatlets in shape and texture. Bac^nes close, 6-10-flowered. Flowers short-stalked, 

 Pd^ ^^ threes. Calyx finely silky, the three lower teeth as long as the tuLe. 

 snort-stalked, 6-10-seeded, oblong, an inch or more thick, more membranous and 

 nexiLle than in 1\ barbata, and dehiscing less readily. 



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l^nuse annuals. Leaves petioled, digitately 3-foliolate, Flotcers copious, 

 ™ute^inthe axils of the leaves. Calyx-tube turbinate^ the teeth as long as 



6 tube, file two upper broader and arched. Corolla scarcely exserted, all the 



F^ls narrow, nearly straight^ distinctly unguiculate, those of the keel scarcely 



onenng. Filaments united in a tube which is slit along the top ; anthers 



™lonn, minute. Ovary sessile, linear, oo-oviilate ; style short, straight, fili- 



^; stigma capitate minute. Pod linear, slender, nearly straight, compressed, 

 continuous within.— Distrib. Two species, the other Trop. African. 



1- a. trifoliata, Pers; DC. Prodi: ii. 382; Wall. Cat. 6821; Wt. 8r 

 ^. F^odr. 195 ; Wight Ic. t. 199. . . Lotus indicus, Desr. in Lam. Etic. iii. 

 P • Trigonella indica, im«. ; J2ar6. Fl. Ind. iii. 389. Dillwj'nia trifoliata, 

 foth tat. iii. 71. Glycine leptocarpa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 6515. Hosackia 

 "»<iica, Or ah. in Wall. Cat. 6940. 



BoncAx Plains from Bxjnbelktjnd to Cetlon. — Distrib. Australia. 

 ^^^.* ^P^ously-hranched diffuse annual with slender stems a foot or more long. 

 Qjjj^^fr^e, minute, i-lunate, persistent; petioles shorter than the leaflets; leaflets 



nceohte-ohlong, obtuse, minutely mucronate, rather fleshy, silky, ^-1 in. long. 

 ^/r5 l--4^ QQ gj^Qj.^ pedicels in the axils of most of the leaves. Calyx silky, 

 * ^^°*., y^^olla inconspicuous, fugacious. Pod 1^-2 in., silky. Seeds 20 or more. :; 





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 BearV*^^" terminal or leaf-opposed racemes or umbels. Calt/.r 2-lipped, slit 

 3 Tjy to the base, with (in Indian species) 5 distinct teeth, 2 to the upper, 

 Trin 1 1 '^^^ ^^P- Corolla scarcely if at all exserted ; standard roundish ; 



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Qo^Yil^"^^ nionadelphous ; anthers dimorphous. Ovanj linear, sessile, 

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 teeth ? 1 . ' lanceolate acute, upper lip of calyx as long as lower, 4 upi>er 

 flacoia ™^^' lowest subulate. Benth. in Hooh. Loud. Journ. in. 360. Cytisus 

 Jauh^'c^i^^" ^- 197. ' Glycine ? flaccida, Wall. Cat. 5517. A. divaricatum, - j ; 

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