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L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 



[^Alisy carpus. ^ 



-^ in., 3-4-jointed, marked -with an acute angle down the face, glabrous, -with as 

 deep plications as in A, rugosus. ,. 



•;'8. A. pubescenSi Xa?^; m Wight Ic. t. 250; pedicels 0, calyx densely . 

 clothed with long white cottony hairs, joints of pod deeply reticulated. Dalz, 8f 

 Gibs. Bomb. FL 65. * 



Plains of Concan and Deccan. 



8t€^/)is ascending, 1-1^ ft., clothed with short adpressed hairs. Leaves distant, 

 linear or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, hairy on the nerves below, strongly triplinerved. 

 Spikes close, 2-6 in. long, with a plumose rachis. Calyx ^ in, long ; teeth lanceolate- 

 setaceous, densely plumose, reaching down to the base. Pod 3-4-jointed, included in 

 the calyx, moniliform, glabrous ; joints globose, under ^ in, thick, the veins 

 honeycombed. 



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9. A. bel^aumensis, Wiyht Ic. t. 92 ; pedicels elongated finely pubes- 

 cent densely ciliated, pod included finely pu'bescent reticulato-venose, Dalz, ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 65. 



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Plains of Coxcan, Dalzell, liiichw. 



■' Stems 1-2 fl., clothed with dense short pubescence. Leaves casually 3-foliate, usu- 

 ally simple; leaflets oblong or lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, subcordate, clothed with ad- 

 pressed short hairs beneath. Eaceines moderately close, reaching 6-9 in. long, l^-H i^^* 

 broad; pedicels curved, ascending, downy ^-| in. Cali/x^-l in. ; teeth 5, lanceolate, 

 reaching down to the base. Pod 3-4-jointed, subcompressed, scarcely moniliform, 

 J in. broad, marked on the face with fine raised honeycomb veins. 



Var, 1. racemosus ; dwarf, diffuse, leaflets obo vat o -oblong under 1 in. long, racemes 

 with much fewer more distant flowers, calyx smaller, pod ^^ in. broad slightly ex- 

 serted. A. racemosus, Benth. in Hohen, PL Lid, Or. No. 212 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Of- 

 t. 292.-'Nilghiris, Schmidt, Wight. Eolampally hills, Coimbatore, alt. 2500 ft., 



Bcddome. 



48. MECOPUS, Bennett. 



An annual her"b. Leaves 1-foliolate. Floicers in dense racemes. Calyx-tvhe 

 campaniilate ; teeth lanceolate, the two upper connate. Standard broad ; keel 

 incurved, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers unifonn. Ovary stipitate, 

 2-ovuled ; style inflexed, stigma minute capitate. Pod of one small oblong 

 reticiilato-venose joint on a long stalk thrust down by the twisting of the top of 

 the pedicel so as to approach the rachis. — A single species. 



1. UK. nidulans, Bennett PL Jav, Bar. 154, t. 32; Walj), Rep. v. 524. 

 Uraria retrofracta, WalL Cat. 5678. 



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Hilly woods of Birma, ]VIartaban and TENASSERi>r, — Distrib. Malay isles. "^ 

 An erect annual, 1 ft, or more high, with numerous slender spreading naked 

 branches. Leaves simple ; leaflet broader than long, membranous, glabrous, pale green, 

 venose, truncate or faintly emarginate ; base subcordate ; petiole filiform, articulated 

 and minutely stipcllato at the tip. F/otvrrs in dense oblong poduncled terminal heads 

 1 in. or less long; pedicels tViscicled, i-^ in. long, finely downy, exceeding the seta- 

 ceous bracts. Calyx and corolla very small. Pod with a stalk 3-4 times as long a3 

 itself, 



49. OUGSINXA, Benth. 



Tree. Leaves pinnately S-foliolate. Flotccrs in fascicled axillary raceme^* 

 Calyx-tube campaniilate ; teeth small, upper 2 siibconnate. Corolla much ex- 

 serted; standard broad; keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous; anthers unifonii- 

 Ovary sessile, linear, manT-o\iiled ; s^le filiform, incurved, stigma minute capi- 

 tate. Pod linear, flat, smooth, formed of 2-5 large more or less distinct jointS' 

 — DisURiB, A single endemic species. 



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