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EhyncJiosia,'] l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 223 



Gibs. Bomb. FL 75. Cylista tomentosa, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 221 ; IIorL Bmq. 



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WixlL Ckit, 5585. Oylista albiflora, 



Jungles of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. — Distrib. Mascaren isles, Zam- 

 besi-land. 



A robust woody climber, with stems clothed with short grey or brown pubescence. 

 Leaflets suLcoriaceous, flexible, softly pilose on both sides, 4-6 in. long, the end one 

 ovate-cuspidate, distinctly stalked ; stipellje large, setaceous, persistent. Racemes 

 close, distinctly peduncled, i-1 ft. long; bracts large, round-cuspidate, caducous. 

 Calyx membranous, f in. long, densely clothed with grey hairs; tube short, teeth 

 ^-f in. broad. Corolla included, marcesccnt, bright red or white. Pod as long as 

 the calyx, deeply torulose, persistently grey-canescent ; seeds large, globose, shining, 

 violet-black. 



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Stjbgen. 5. Pseudo-cajan, BeMh. An erect shrub with narrow a 

 nate calyx-teeth. Seeds without an arillus. 



11. a. pseudo-cajan, Camb. in Jaco. Toy. Bat. 45, t. 65. K. incaua, 

 %fc MSS, 



Western Himalayas ; Hazara to Gurwhal and Kumaon, ascending to 0000 ft. 



An erect shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with virgate slender branches, clothed with per- 

 sistent fine grey tomentum. Petiole ^-1 in.; stipules minute, caducous; leaflets 

 subcoriaceous, 1-2 in. long, exstipellate, grey-green, thinly canesccnt above, densely 

 persistently grey-can escent beneath, with raised veinlets; the end one oblong-rhom- 

 boidal, distinctly stalked, apex deltoid, subacute. Flowers in short-peduncled close 

 corymbs; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx | in., densely grey-canescent ; 

 lowest tooth linear-setaceous, exceeding the tube; the others shorter, lanceolate. 

 torolla ^-| in. ; standard thinly silky. Pod oblong, an inch long, | in. broad, 

 straight, hard, persistently ffrey-canescent, subcompressed, bearing 1-2 seeds in the 

 ^Pper half. '^ ^ ^ 



SiJBGKN. 6. Eurhynchosia, W. ^ A, Twining herbs or shrubs with 

 acuminate calyx-teeth. Seeds without an arillus. 



Leaflets small, subcoriaceous or membranous, usiuilUj obtuse. Pod much 

 ^oeedmg the calyx (Oopisma, E. Meyer). 



12. R, minima, DC. Prodr. ii. 385 ; stems and leaves nearly or quite 



tLa J^' rhombifolia, DC Prodr. lor. cit. R. prostrata, Grah. in Wall Cat 

 '^\ K. niicrophvlla, Wall. Cat. 5497. R. nuda, BC. Prodr. ii. 385 ; 11 . Sf 

 W V X- 238 ; iValL Cat. 5494. R. ervoidea, DC loc. cit Glycine rhom- 

 ^iloha, Wilkl Sp. iii. 1065. Dolichos minimus, Limi. Sp. PL 1020. D. medi- 

 "^^i^eus, Lmn. Diet. ii. 297 ; Roxb. Jlort. Beng. 55. 



!!?: P^tescence at the begiuninff. Stipules minute, lanceolate, caducous ; leaflets 

 ^^oconiceous or membranous, i-1 in. braid and deep, obtuse, usually exstipellate, 

 ^ end one distinctly stalked, mostly conspicuously gland-dotted beneath. Eace^nes 

 Pediolif '^» '^*^^'t-peduncled, usuaUy exceeding the leaves; bracts minute linear; 

 STn ^^^• ^""^y^ h^ i"M pubescent; lowest tooth setaceous, twice the tube. 

 tur^d ? il'"^* ^'''^^^ the calvx. Pod i-| in. long, under \ in. broad, glabrescent, 

 Va't, 7^ L^ recurved, mostly 2-seeded. . ^ , , .» ^ 



^' ^"^^flora; glabrous, leaflets krger 11-2 in. long acute both the upper and 



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