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220 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Ehyncliosia. 



6000 ft. Ceylon, Walker. Malacca, GrijJltL Pegu, McClelland. — 'DihTKi^. 



China, Philippines, 1^. Austnilia. 



Eoot a small woody perennial tuber. Stems 1-2 ft., slender, erect, woody, little 

 branched, densely pubescent. Stipules linear, persistent; leaflets short-petioled, 

 simple, linear-ligulate, 1-2 in. long, subcoriaceous, greenish with a few adprcssed 

 hairs above, glaucous, densely grey-canescent, brown on the ribs beneath. Flotcers 1-2, 

 short-peduncleJ, in leaf-axils. Calyx ^—^ in., densely pilose. Corolla twice the 

 calyx, yellowish, purple-black when dried. Fod oblong, | in., densely pubescent. 



84. RKVNCKOSZA, Lour. 



Twining or erect herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; gland-dotted 

 beneath ; stipellse present or absent ; stipules and bracts caducous. Flowers 

 axillary or racemed. Calyx-tube short; teeth equalling or often much exceeding 

 it, usually not accrescent, slightly so in § Phyllomatia, the upper often more or 

 less connate. Corolla included or exserted ; keel incurved, not distinctly 

 beaked. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, usually 

 2-ovuled ; style long, filiform, much incur\'ed, stigma capitate. Pod round or 

 oblong, flattish or turgid, usually continuous between the seeds, the hilum 

 parallel with the sutures and funiculus centrical upon it. — Distrib. Specif 

 about 80, spread everywhere in the tropics and reaching the Cape and Tjnitea 

 States. 



SuBGEN. 1. Fhyllomatia, TT. Sf A. Calyx-teeth broad and marcescent, 

 but not so excessively enlarged as in Cyltsta, in which Gmham placed the species. 

 Seeds with a large grooved white waxy arillus, as in Atylosia, 



1. R. rufescens, DC. Prodr, ii. 387 ; pedicels distinct solitary distant, 

 calyx-lobes narrowed to an obtuse point, pod globose one-seeded. W* ^ ^' 

 Prodr. 239; Hook. Ic. PL t. 189. Glycine rufescens, Wilhl Nov, Ad. 

 Per. 1803, p. 222. G. pondicheriensis, Sjyre^ig. Syst. iii. 196. Cylista suavecn 

 lens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5587. Cyanospermiun javanicum, Miq. Flor. /««• 

 Bat. i. 167. Lespedeza indica, Siyi^eng. Syst. iii. 202; W. 8c A. Prodr. "i^^- 

 Hallia trifoliata, Roth Nov. Sp. 352. Flemingia Rothiana, DC. Prodr. ii. 351. 



Plains of Western Peninsula, and Ceylon. Dacca, Clarke. Khasia, GTiffith.— 

 DiSTRin. Java. 



Suberect shrubby, with long trailing shoots, clothed with fine short grey pubes- 

 cence. Petioles erecto-patent, 1-2 in.; stipules minute, caducous; leaflets su 



coriaceous, mirmtflv stinellate. orate or oblon(T_ 1-.*^ in Innor a^^nti^ rounded at tD 



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■Tnes 



laxly 2-6-flowered; pedicels ^\ in., cernuous. Calyx downy, f in. deep, cut do 

 nearly to the base into 5 subequal scariose lobes ^^ in. broad. Corolla not exsert 



Pod :|~-| in. long, roundish, turgid, finely downy. 



2. R. Heynei, W. fy A. Prodr. 240 ; flowers scarcely pedicellate gej^ 

 nate or ternate, calyx-lobes lanceolate narrowed at the base, pod two-seea 

 twice as long as broad. Oylista reticulata, Jleyne in Wall. Cat. 55B4. ^' 

 coodoorensis, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 297. 



Plains of Mysore, Heyne. NiLGHiras, Beddome. . t^ 



Shrubby, with densely shortly grey-downy elongated slender branches, ^^^^^v 

 minute, caducous; petiole \-\^ in. ; leaflets oblong, acute, rounded at the base* su 

 coriaceous, minutely pubescent, the end one 2-3 in. long, distinctly stalked, y*^^ . 

 in short-peduncled 2-4-nate racemes of 1-2 distant clusters. Calyx ^ in., downj* 



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