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with 



. , . „ bous ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sub- 



stipitate, few-ovuled ; style long, flattened ahove its curve, stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear, falcate, torulose. — Disirib. One other species^ in Japan. 



^ 1. D. villosa, DC. Mem. Leg. 257, t. 44; I^-odr. ii. 241; leaves and 

 leaflets distinctly petioled, tlie latter ovate, corolla twice as long as the calyx. 

 WaU. Cat 5523. D. pubescens, DC. he. cit. t. 46. D. congesta, Grah. in Wall. 

 Cat. 5524 ; W. & A. Prodi: 206 ; Wiqht Ic. t. 445. 



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^ Stents slender, densely clothed "vrith grey or ferruginous hairs. Petiole 1-2 in. ; 

 stipules minute, setaceous; leaflets membranous, obtuse, green, with a few obscure 

 hairs above, grey, densely pubescent beneath ; end one 2-3 in. long. Bacemes 2-6 in. 

 long, lax or close, 12-40 -flowered, rarely (Z>. cmgesta, Grab.) close, subsessile; bracts 

 and bracteoles minute, setaceous. Calyx \~^ in., with a fewadpressed hairs. Corolla 

 J.~4 5n., yellow or purplish. Pod 1^ in. long, velvety, 3-4-seeded. 

 tlW VAR. leiocarpay Benth. PI. Jungh. 231, sp. ; pod and leaflets subglabrous.— Sikkim^ 

 Jvhasia, Ceylon. 



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9^ 2. D. cordlfolia, Benth. MSS, ; leaves and leaflets suhsessile, the latter 

 rotundato-cordate, corolla half a5 long again as the calyx. 



Khasu, 5000 ft., Hook^fil # Thomson, 



otenis very slender, at first finely downy. Stipules linear, very minute ; leaflets 

 iiiembranous, glabrous, -^-1 in. long, firm, pale green. Flowers 6-10, in a close 

 ^ceme, on a glabrous peduncle l-2jin. long; bracts and bracteoles linear, very mi - 

 ™te. Calyx glabrous, membranous, i-l in. long. Corolla pale yellow. 



58. 6X.VCXNS, linn 



Twining or suberect herbs. Leaves with 3-7 stipellate leaflets. Flotcers in 

 axuiary racemes, with [minnte narrow hracta. Calijx-tube campanulate ; teeth 

 jiistinct, long or short. Corolla mostly little exserted ; petals about equal m 

 Jength ; standard not distinctly spurred. Stamein more or less completely mona- 

 ueiphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary suhsessile, manynDvuled ; style short, m- 

 ^ed, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear or linear-oblong, straight or 

 jecurved, flat or rather turgid, few-seeded.— DisxEiu. Species about 12, spread 

 Mough tropica of old world, and especially Australia. 



uh ^' Ja^anlca, Lhm. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 242 ; stems slender twining, leaf- 



•„,,?' '"^cemes elongated many-flowered, calyx-teeth long setaceous, pod narrow 



BOiall. Smth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 266. Soja Wightii and S. javanica, 



wrt/i tn Wall. Cat ^K'X(\ Rr r.^oa Kn+nnin, Witrhtii. W. Sr A. Prodr. 208. 



W. 



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Javf '^'"^ of the Westekn Pexixsula and Ceti.ox.— Disteib. Trop. Africa, Natal, 



Pe£"'^^ ^'de-climbing, more or less clothed with grey or ferruginous silky hairs. 

 &nd7i^~^ ^°- ; ^e'lflets membranous, green, ^th a few adpressed hairs above, grey 

 eensA^" f ^'^'^ ^®lo^ ; end one ovate, acute, 2-4 in. long. Racentcs short-peduncled, 

 '' i-if °!i ' ^-^ ^°- long; pedicels very short; bracteoles long, setaceous. Calyx 

 Li«, ■' 5^?^^l7 silky ; teeth setaceous, plumose. Corolla reddish, little exserted. Pod 



hj^l in., 4-5-seeded, clothed with adpressed hairs 



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