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212 Ti. LEGUMiNOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [PsopJiocarpus. 



2. P. palustris, Besv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 420 ; leaflets orate entire or 

 lobed, racemes manv-flowered^ pedicels short, bracteoles as long as the calyx, pod 

 small glabrous. Dolichos suffultus, Gh^ah. in Wall Cat. 55G4. P. long^- 

 pedunciilatiis, Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 388. P. palmettorum, Guill. i^' Per. 11 

 Seneg. 222. Diesingia scandens, Endl. Atakt. 1, t. 1-2. 



Cultivated in the tropics of both hemispheres ; a native of Africa. 



Steins slender, glabrous, firmer than in the last. Stipules similar ; leaflets broad 

 ovate or roundish, 2-4 in. long, acute, sometimes with two distinct obtuse lobes in the 

 lower half. liacemes long-peduncled, ^-^ ft. long, dense upwards ; bracteoles obloug, 

 glabrous, quite enveloping the young calyx. Pod 2-4 in. long, ^| in. broad, includ- 

 ing the wings, 4-8-seeded. 



We have what may prove a third species from Assam. Masters, with pubescent 

 stems and leaves, entire lanceolate subcoriaceous prominently-veined leaflets 4-5 ni' 

 long, short sessile racemes, a straight square 6-8-seeded pod 2-2^ in. long, withmucn 

 less prominent wings than in the preceding, the faces densely clothed, with persisten 

 firm short spreading grey hairs. Flowers, stipules, and bracteoles unknown. 



79. ATYXiOSIA, W. & A. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves 3-foliolatej sometimes subdigita^e, 

 often exstipellate, gland-dotted beneath. Flowers axillary or racemed. Cw/f f 

 teeth distinct, longer or shorter than the tube, the lowest the longest. C(^'oll(i 

 more or less exserted, marcesceut or caducous; keel not beaked. Stamens diB-- 



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delphous.; anthers uniform. Ovai-y sessile; ovules 3 or more; style filuor^ 

 incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod linear or oblong, tiu'gid, marked ^i^ 

 transverse lines between the seeds, which have a conspicuous divided strophiole- 

 DisTRiB. Species about 20, spread from India to Australia and Mauritius. 

 Differs from Cajanus mainly by its arillate seeds. 



SuBGEN. 1. Atylia, Benth. Petals marcescent, remaining till the pod ^^ 

 developed. 



* Erect. Floicers in sessile or stalked pairs. Pod not distinctly lineate oe- 

 ttveen the seeds. 



1. A. Candollei, W. ^ A. Prodr. 257; petiole short, leaflets o\>o\^^^ 

 oblong or oblanceolate densely silky re ticulato- venose beneath, pairs of A^^f. 

 usuallv stallved, corolla large, pod 3-4-8eeded densely silky. Wight Ic. t. i • 

 A. major, W. dr A. Prodr. 257. Ooltea trinervia, DC. Mem. Leg. p. 247, t. 41 » 

 Pr^^A ii. 240 ; Wall. Cat. 5r)71. Odonia trinervia, Spreng. Sgst. Suppl ^^^' 

 Rhynchosia Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5500. 



NiLGHiiiis and Ceylon, up to 4000 ft. -^^ 



An erect shrub, with rigid suleate branches, densely clothed with grey or brown - 

 subpatcnt hairs. Stipules lanceolate, minute, silky, caducous ; petioles \^ V 

 leaflets very thick and coriaceous, almost digitate, 2-3 times as long as t> ' 

 shortly pubescent above, the underside with the veins and veinlets in '^*^^^^^' ^"^00 

 clothed with thick grey or brownish silky pubescence, usually obtuse, the en"- .^ 

 1-3 in. long. Peduncles rigid, erecto-patent, of the lower pairs of flowers 1' ^ 

 long, of the upper often suppressed ; bracteoles oblong, caducous ; pedicels i'^^. 

 Calyx }i-\ in., densely silky; lowest tooth linear, twice the tube, the others l^^n^ 

 late. Corolla reddish, 1 in. long ; limb of standard oblong ; keel with a short 

 beak. Pod straight, oblong, 1-1^ in. by \ in., densely clothed with soft short spre»- 

 ing grey or pale brown silky pubescence. 



2. A. ^emlniflora, ^Bah. inJourn. Linn. Soc xiii. 185 ; petiole produced, 



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