f \Eleiotis.'] L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J.G.Baker.) 153 



l¥op 



' A perennial, with slender firm trailing csespitosc stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves short- 



petioled, membranous, 1 or 3-foliolate, the end leaflet the largest, orbicular or oblong, 

 obtuse, ^ in. long, a little hairy below. Flowers in copious oblong terminal capitate 

 racemes under 1 in. long; bracts ovate, scariose, finely pubescent ; pedicels short. 

 ^dlyx 4 m ; teeth densely plumose. Pod as long as calyx. 



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^ An annual herb. Leaves usually 1-foliolate. Flowers in axillary racemes. 

 talt/x with a very short tube and 6 subequal setaceous teeth. Corolla mi- 

 nute; standard broad ; keel obtuse, adhering to the wings. Stamms diadelphous; 

 anthera uniform. Ovary subsessile, l-ovuled ; style short, uncinate or nearly 

 straight, thickened at the base, stigma capitate. Tod of a single dimi- 

 aiate membranous reined joint, with a flattened stmight dorsal and rounded 

 ventral suture.— A single endemic species. 



^^^- B. sororia, DC. Trodr. ii. 348; Wall Cat. 6741; W,^A, Prodr. 



n. • J^' ^onophylla, DC loc. cit. Hedysarum sororium, X/nn. ; Roxb, FL Ind. 

 m. d52. Hallia sororia, WilUl Sjy. iii. 1170. Glycine monophyUa, JBurm. FL 

 Ind, 161, t. 50, fig. 2. 



Hams of Bundelkunb, Wkstern Peninsui-a and Ceylon. 



T "^^ annual, with slender trailing densely cgespitose glabrous stems, 1-2 ft. long. 



^^^es subglabrous, membranous, consisting usually of a single short stalked stipellate 



sio^n^ l^'^fiet, rounded or broader than long, emarginate, ^1 in. long, but occa- 

 naiiy With a pair of minute lateral leaflets. Flowers in copious simple lax axillary 

 enies; pedicels spreading, downy, exceeding the cah^x; bracts minute, ovate, 



^canose, deciduous. Pod \ in. long. 



A low shrub. 



43. PYCNOSFOaA 



standard 



Floirers minute, racemed, 

 upper teeth subconnate. Corolla much exserted ; 



CnJ ^^ ^^^^' Leaves pinnatoly 3-foliolate. 

 ^aiyx deeply cleft, the upper teeth subconnate. 



, , ^^ ^^^cr to tne WIDOWS, stamens diadelphous 



uniform - - ' ^- ~ - - " ■• ^ 



. ; style mtiexed, liiilonii ; sti^-ma mi 

 S-lb-seeded, continuous within, no' 



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pute c€ ^ 



X^tS ^^^ iiiarked with' transverse veins.— A single 'species, combining the 

 01 nesmodium, with a pod like Crotalana. 



PrnrJr To^,*^®*y^^^<>*d®S, a. Br. in Herb, BanJcs. P. uer^'osa, W. 4' ^• 

 Cat %i^^^ ' -^'''^"- ^' ^^^^' ^^^'^i- -^^- 75. Crotalaria ? nervosa, Grah. m Wall. 

 • ^^«- Indigofera desmodioides, Benth. in Iloheii. Fl Ind. Or. No. 303. , 



aZT ^^^^'^' *^^^^^a- Philippines, K Australia. 





Ceti, 



Peninsula 



Xeai-e, •^™'^'''^ ^^''^^' """it'i slender densely cfespitosc trailing stems ^-2 ft. long. 

 ' coriacpn 1^^^^ 3-folioIate; leaflets oborate, obtuse, ^-1^ m. long, stipellate, snb- 



termiml ' ^ '^^^'"^^^ 'il'ove, finely dc^vny and rctieidato-vcnose below. Flowers in lax 

 i times ni ^■"'J'^"^^^ ; bracts deciduous, scariose, ovate-cuspidate ; pedicels downy, 2-3 



^ calyx. Calyx Jj in. long or less. Pod ^-^ in. long, finally black. 



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""f:/i-A;.; 44. PSETTIIAaTHaiA. W. & A. 



.. ^ - ' K. 



2 as tie ti!l^-/^^'"«'^'«»«, ^^oai wliich it only difiers in pod. Cali/x-teeth. as long 

 lieel okii ^PP®'' subconnate. Coro^Zrt 2-3 times the calyx ; standard broad ; 

 ovuled- ?f'i ^^"^"<^« diadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovanj subsessile, many- 



'7?'^ filiform, stigma capitate, Fod linear-oblong, compressed, mehi- 





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