

222 li. LEGUAiiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Bhyncliosia. 



ternally. TT. (^ A. Prodr, 240. Glycine suaveolens, Linn. Siippl, 326. Cajanus 

 suaveoiens, Grah, in Wall. Cat, 5579. 



Plains of Ckylon and both sides of the Western Peninsula. 



An undershrub, 1-3 ft. high, with many stiff erecto-patent branches, clothed "with 

 fine short grey pubescence, sometimes lengthened out and half twining at the ends. 

 Stipules minute, lanceolate; petiole 1-2 in., stiffly erecto-patent; leaflets almost 

 membranous, pale green, minutely downy, especially beneath, sometimes stipellate, the 

 end one roundish, with a long cusp, distinctly stalked, 1-3 in. long. Peduncles 

 slender, erecto-patent, downy, seldom above 1 in. ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx \ in., downy; teeth linear-setaceous. Fod oblong, ^-| in. long, turgid, 



2-seeded. 



7. R. cana, DC. Prodr. ii. 38G; leaves minutely downy, flowers in 

 pedimcled pairs, calyx-teeth exceeding the tiibe^ corolla twice the calyx, pod 

 minutely downv neither lineate externally nor septate internally. Wall. Cat 

 5498; W. ^ A^. Prodr. 240. Glycine cana, Willd. Sp. iii. 1063. 



Plains of Getlon, and both sides of the Western Peninsula. 



A dwarf undershrub, with very numerous erecto-patent slender shortly downy 

 branchlets. Petioles 1-2 in. long, erecto-patent ; leaflets obovato or oblong, obtuse 

 or subacute, thicker in texture and deeper in colour than in the last, thinly pilose 

 above, densely or thinly grey downy beneiith, 1-2 in. long, exstipellate, the end one 

 distinctly stalked. Peduncles slender, ^-1 in. ; pedicels shorter than the calyx, with 

 a small persistent lanceolate bract at the base. Calyx ^ in., densely silky. Po^ 

 oblong, ^5 in. long, turgid, glabrescent, 2-seeded. 



S. avensis, Benth. MSS. 



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Wall. Cat. 557G. Atylosia candicans, Kurz in Joum. Asiat. Soc. Bmg. xliii- 2, 

 186. 



Ava; Taongdong, Wallich. Pegit, near Rangoon, McClelland. 



Branches slender, woody, virgate, densely clothed with grey tomentum. Stip^J^^ 

 caducous; petiole 1-2 in., stiffly erecto-patent ; leaflets thick, coriaceous, greenish, 

 thinly canescent above, densely persistently thickly grey-canescent beneath, the end 

 one ovate-acuminate, 3-4 in. long. Peduncles equalling or exceeding the petioles ; 

 pedicels ^-} in. ; bracts lanceolate, caducous. Calyx ^-| in,, densely silky; all^ the 

 teeth linear-setaceous, the lowest the longest. Corolla not exserted. Pod oblique* 

 oblong, firm, ^-| in. long, 2-seeded. 



9. R. Beddomei, Baker] leaflets argenteo-canescent on "both sides, 

 flowers in subsessile congested racemes, calyx-teeth much exceeding the tube, 

 corolla not exserted. 



Western' Peninsut-a ; Cudrape hills, Beddorne. - 



An erect shrub, with terete white-canescent branches. Petioles erecto-patent, ^4 

 in.; leaflets oblong or obhmg-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, thinly persistently 

 argonteo-cauescont above, densely so beneath, the veins conspicuously raisedi the enu 

 one short-stjiiked. Flowers in copious cymes from the axils of reduced leaves, 

 pedicels mnch shorter than calyx. Calyx | in., thinly silky. Corolla bright yellow* 

 Pod 1-seeded, not seen fully mature, oblong, thinly canescent. 



SuBGEx. 4. Cyanospermuxn, W. 8f A. A woody twiner with broad 



foliaceous calyx-teeth. Seeds without an arillus. 



10. It. cyanosperma, Benth. in Oliv. Flor. Trop. Africa, ii. 218. Oy^ 

 nospermmn tomentosum, W. 8f A. Prodr. 260 ; Wight III t. 81 (84) ; Dah^ 9 



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