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Flemingia,'] l. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) 229" 



F. angustifolia, Ilorb, Fl Ind, iii. 341 ? Crotalaria macrophylkj Willd. Sp, 

 111. 982. Rhynchosia crotalarioides, DC. Frodr. ii. 387. 



Centkal Himalayas to Ceylon and Malacca, in the tropical region, — Distrib. 

 Malay isles, China, Philippines. 



An erect woody shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with terete glabrescent old and rather angular 

 suicate silky young branches. Stipules linear, i- in., caducous; petiole 1-4 in., sul- 

 cata dou-n the face, not winged; leaflets subcoriaceous, thin not plicate, 4-6 in. long, 

 narrowed to a long point, and downwards to a rather rounded base, green and glabrous 

 above, thiDly grey-silky beneath. Bacetnes ohlongj dense, 1-2 in. long, sessile, often 

 fascicled ; bracts lanceolate, |-j in. long, silky on the back, like the calyx, deciduous, 

 not at all rigid ; pedicels very short. C'a/yx ^-| in., densely clothed with adpressed 

 shining pale brown silky hairs; teeth linear-lanceolate, the lowest exceeding the 

 others. Corolla scarcely exserted : keel obtuse. Fad oblong, ^ in. long, obscurely 

 tlowny, 2-seeded. 



^ VAR. 1. semialata ; general habit and leaflets of the type, but the petiole narrowly 

 winged, the racemes often rather laxer and calyx-teeth narrower. F. semialata, Roxb. 

 f j. Ind, iii. 340 ; Don Frodr. 242 ; W. ^ A. Frodr. 241 ; Wight Ic, t. 326 ; WalL Cat. 

 ^i^^,ingrcatirpart, F. stricta. Wall. Cat. 5745 E. F. prostrata, ^oa'^». Fl. Ind. iii. 

 ^*^8 (a low trailing form).— Kange of the type, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Central 

 Himalayas. 



VAii. 2. latifolia; tall, very robust, leaflets larger acute 6-9 in. long, bracts |-^in. 

 long like the calyx densely clothed with shining adpressed brown silky hairs. F. 

 latilolia, Be7ith. FL Jungh. 246 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 163.— Khasia, 2-3000 ft. Hook, 

 M^ and Thomson, Gh-iffit L—Bistuib. Java. 



1 i]f' ^' ^^'^^^^^^^ ; ^i*c^'t> branches densely silky, leaflets smaller thicker densely 

 Clothed with adpressed grey or ferruginous silky hairs below with the veinlets raised. 



culato- 



iato-rugose beneath, heads few subglobose few-flowered sometimes shortly peduncled, 



ijx-^eth deep very narrow, pod slightly downy. F. nana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 ; 



/ }^^*t- 111- 339 ; Wall Cat 57-^8 A; W7ght Ic. t. 389 (suberect). F. procunibens, 



p ^' .•^^- -^«^. iii. 338 ; Wight Ic. t. 408 (trailing diffuse) ; Falz. ^- Gibs. Bomb. FL 75. 



- capitata, Bam. in WalL Cat. 5749.— Central and Eastern Himalayas, 2-5000 ft., 



Concan. 



Wallich 



.V. wi subacute tinely downy beneath^ bracts small not at all rigid, calyx 



SrS^H F- semialata, var. vestita. WalL Cat. 5746, G. F. nana, Wall Cat. 

 ^; -D. F. serieaua, Kurz in Joum. AsiaL Sac. Feng, xliii. 2, 186. 



Hills of Wkstkrx Pe^nixsula. Pkomk, Wallich. Martabax, Kurz. 

 caHii ^ slender, erect, densely clothed with short spreading hairs. Stipules small, 

 tr^^^^^^ 5 petiole 1-2 in., faintly winged; leaflets obovate-oblong, 2-4 m. long, gla- 

 solit ^^ ^Wer surface, nearlv flat. Heads dense, oblong, sessile, 1-2 in. long, 

 gj. '^^.*^^ ^'^scicled. Calyx ^4 m., shaggy, with dense persistent Arm spreading 

 inclufl r^' ^^it down nearly to the base into subequal linear plumose teeth .^ Corolla 

 thebJf V "^^^ ^^^^"^. -IS long as the calyx, finely downy, 

 ^st,trom which it mainly differs in vestiture. 



Not clearly distinct from 



3"foH f ^^^' 4. liepidocoma. Jungh. An erect shrub. Leaves digitately 

 cainf. 1 ; ^'^^^'(^rs in dense j^lobose heads surrounded by large bracts (like tb3 

 ^Pituia of Composite). 



Flor ^''.'^^^l^icrata, Fenth. PL Jungh. 246. F. capitata, Zollingr, Mic^. 

 Wfoiiat ^* ^^^' Lespedeza involucrata, WalL Cat 6742. Lepidocom:i 



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