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L. LEGUMiNOS-s:. (J. G. Baker.) 



\_Mumna, 



10. TtLm nlvea, DC. Prodr, ii. 406 ; annual^ stem and leayes beneath gla- 



brescent, flowei-s white in long drooping racemes, bracts small linear-lanceolate, 



. pods shortly velvety glahrescent ribbed longitudinally. Wall. Cat. 6624. Car- 



popogon niveum, Boxb. Ilort. Beng. 54 ; FL Inch iii. 285. M. nigra, Ham, in 



Wall Cat. 6617. 



Leafieis 



AvA and Bengal, perhaps cultivated only. 



Like the preceding, perhaps only a cultivated race of M. pruriens. 

 -J ft. long, distinctly rhomboidal at the base, both sides at first with a few adpressed 

 airs. Racemes pendulous, often exceeding the leaves. Pedicels, calyx and corolla of 

 M, pruriens, but the latter white. Pod half a foot long, black and destitute of 

 bristles when mature, 6-8-seeded. 



61. 



Moench. 



,3. 



Twining herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-7-foliolate, stipellate. Floicers middle- 

 sized, in lax racemes, with timiid nodes ; bracts and bracteoles minute, deciduo 

 Calyx teeth shorter than the tube, two upper connate, lowest linear, the two 

 others short, deltoid. Corolla much exserted, the much incurved narrow keel 

 exceeding the spoonshaped standard, the wings still shorter. Stamens diadel- 

 . phous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style very long, nh- 

 form, beardless, much inciu'ved, stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed.^ 

 DisTKiB. Species 3, the two others Chinese and N. American. 



0^1-'^^ 1. A.. ca.mea.tBent7i.MSS. Oyrtotropis camea, TFaK. C«f . 5527 ; H. 

 ^s. J?flr. 49, t. 62. 



, .. NiPAi., Wallich. Khasia, 4-6000 ft., HooJc.fiL ^ Thomson, Lohh, ' ' ■ „ 



: Stems slender, soon glabrescent. Petioles 2-3 in.; leaflets usually 5, rarelyo, 

 glabrous, green above, pale beneath, membranous, opposite, oblong, acute, 3-4 in. 

 long. Flowers in long-peduncled flexuose secund racemes 6-9 in. long ; lower pedicels 

 fascicled, upper solibiry ; bracts and bracteoles minute, linear, caducous. Caly^'g^^^^' 

 glabrous, J-| in. Corolla reddish, quite twice the calyx. Pod 4-5 in. long, glabrous, 

 straight, 12-16-seeded, 



02. 



, Linn. 



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Trees with prickly branches. Flotve^'s large, coi-al-red, in dense raceme^; 

 produced usually before the development of the large constantly 3-foliolate leaves. 

 Calyx oblique, spathaceous, finally slitting down to the base or campanulato-hi- 

 labiate. Petals veiy unequal ; standard always much exserted and considei'abl) 

 exceeding the keel and wings. Upper stainen free down nearly to the base or 

 connate with the others half way up the filaments ; anthers uniform. Orftry 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, 

 turgid, torulose. — Distrib. Species 25-30, principally tropical, in both the new 

 world and the old, and at the Cape. 



SuBGEx. 1. Stenotropis, Ilassh. Calyx spathaceous, oblique, not at 

 all 2-lipped, finally split to the base down the back. 



1. S. indica, Lam. ; DC. B-odr, ii. 412 ; calyx 5-cleft at the tip, kfl- 

 petals free, pod 6-8-seeded. Jtoxb. Fl Ind. iii. 249 ; Wall. Cat. 5963 ; W-J^ 

 A. Prodr. 260 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 87 ; Wight Ic. t. 58 ; Dalz. 4" Gibs. Bomb. F' 

 E. spattabea, IVall. Cat. 6965. E. corallodendron, Linn. Sp. 992, ex parte 

 cuneata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5dG7 .—Bheede Sort. Mai. vi. t. 7. 



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±oot of the HiMALATis to Cetlok, Biema and Malacca, often planted 

 Java, Polynesia, ^ o K^j^i^.^^r i '^^ * 



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