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Besmodktm.'] l. leguminos^. (J. Gr. Baker.) 175 



hidden by the large ovate deciduous "bracts, finally 3-6 in. long ; pedicels | in., patent, 

 finely downy. Calyjc -^ in., campanulate ; teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube. 

 C&rolla i in. Pod 1-1^ in. long, ^ in. broad, falcate, 6-10-jointed, straight along 

 the upper, slightly indented along the lower suture. 



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Var. Ro?/ki; end-leaflet 3-4 in. long twice as long as broad, corolla rather 

 larger. D. Eoylei, JT. 4' A, Prodr. 227. 



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; 49. D. g-yroides, DC. Prodr. ii. 32G ; "branches woody^ end leaflet 2-3 

 tunes as long as troad, pod looselv but copiously pubescent. Wall, Cat, 5728 ; 



W. ^' A. Prodr. 227. D. pseud og}'roides, Mtq. Flor. Ind. Bat, i. 244. Hedy- 

 sarum gyroides, Roxh. Ilort. Bemf^hl. Oodariocalyx gyroides, Ilassk. inFloray 

 1842, hiebl, ii. 49. 0. conicus, Hassk. in Walp. Jie2y. i. 744. Pseudarthria poly- 

 carpa, Hassk PL Jav. Bar. 393 (excL syn.). 



_ Centrax and East Himalayas, tropical region ; GuRWHALto Khasia and Cachak ; 

 Upper Bexgai., Pegu, Ceylon.— Dtstrib. Malay isles. 



-• Closely allied to the last, but decidedly slirubby, reaching 8-10 ft. in height. 

 pcdves obtuse, oblong or obovate-oblong, thinly or densely pubescent beneath ; side ones 

 wen suppressed. Eacemes shorter and the terminal ones not so copiously panicled ; 

 bracts under \ in. long, narrowed suddenly at the point. Corolla f in., both standard 

 ^a keel broader. Pod similar, except in vestiture. 



51. ABRUS. Linn 



. Climbing shrubs. Leaves with uumerous deciduous leaflets. Flowers small, 

 in dense racemes on axillary peduncles or short branches. Calyx campanulate, 

 fqual ; teeth very short. Corolla much exserted ; standard ovate, acute, adhering 



below in +V.<^ o+ • ^1 x,.i „ _ ^ - . . 



wino^ 





-^ ^,,^^ ^^^^ J »xiiv;o^<xiiw>v , ^c^^ ctx^utcv^v>. Stainens 9, united in 



^ 1^ ®^^^ above, the tenth absent ; anthers imiform. Ovary subsessile, many- 

 oviUed ; style short, incm-ved, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong or linear- 

 ^ng, flat or turgid, moderately firm, thinly septate.— Distrib. Species 5 ; 





1. A. precatorius, Linnr^ DC Prodr. ii. 381; branches and leaves 

 eath glabrous or thinly silky, leaflets ligulate-oblong, pod oblong turgid 3-/)- 



S / ; ^^^^'Fl.lnd, iii. 258; Wall Cat. 5818; W. Sf A. Prodr. 1^36; 



\^ a\ o ^^' So7nb. Fl, 70. A. minor and pauciflorus, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 



Hort. Mai 



Hlkax 



fTi.7 ^""^^^^'^^ ^^ Ceylon and Slam, ascending to 3o00 ft.— Distbib. Cosmopolitan in 



^e tropics, often planted. 



Leaves 2-3 in. long; 



Eacemes many-flowered, 



thinly silky. Corolla red- 



Sceds bright scarlet and 



or whitish, or mixed black and Vhite, as large as a pea. 



2. A. pulchellus, Wall. Cat, mid) branchlets and leaves beneath glab- 

 flee^ T ^ ^"^^ ^^^^y* leaflets ligulate-oblong, pod linear flat incurved 0-12- 

 _^ea. Thwaites Enum. 91. A. laivigatus, E. Meyer ) Harv. FL Cap. n, 203. 

 3f,«^ r.^"^^P^^^^? Hassk. : Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 169. A. acutifolius, Blnme ; 

 ^*2- FL Ind. Bat. i. 160. 



CetS^^?, ^ Chittagoxg, Tenasserim and BirmA, ascending to 3000 ft. in Sikkim ; 

 V tr G!n*'ri^^^^^^' ^I^lay isles, Guinea, Natal, Kailraria. . 



■ ^ la teJf ^^^'^ exactly of A. prccatorius. Leaves 3-4 in. long ; leaflets 24-30, simdar 



■ ' des ni ^~^i *°- by l-f in- Racemes more numerously flowered, on longer pedun- 



fitnn^.u^?'^ ^"^ corolla similar. Pod incurved. 2-2iiD. by + m., with tJiinner 



valves. 



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