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230 li. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Flemingia. 



Eastern Himalayas, Assam and Sikkim, ascending to 3000 ft. Pegu, McClelland^ 

 Ktirz. CoNCAN, Stock.^, — Distrtb. Java. 



An erect shrub, 2-4 ft. high, with slender terete zigzag woody finely downy 

 branches. Stipules large, scariose, caducous; petiole ^-^ in.; leaflets oblong or 

 lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, 2-3 in. long, subcoriaceous. glabrous above, grey and 

 finely downy below. Heads copious, both terminal on the branches and, axillary on 

 short peduncles, an inch broad, encircled by about a dozen lanceolate acuminate sca- 

 riose persistent bracts ^ in. long. Calyx i-| in. long, shaggy with long dense grey 

 hairs ; teeth very long, the two upper subconnate. Corolla included ; keel obtuse. 

 Tod BxatiW, oblong, included, firm, downy, 1-seeded. 



SxTBOEx. 6. Rhynchosioides. Trailing herbs with herbaceous roots. 

 Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; bracts minute, caducous. 



10. r. vestita, Benfh. MSS. ; leaflets obovate-cuneate minutely pilose, 

 stipules large persistent, flowers 4-10 in dense long-peduncled heads, corolla 

 much exserted. Dolichos vestitus, Grah, in Wall, Cat, 5545. 



Iliraalayas; from Simla, Garwiial and Kxtmaon to Xhasia, ascending to 7000 ft. 

 Sometimes cultivated for the sake of its tuberous esculent root. 



Stems trailing to a length of 1-2 ft., branched, densely clothed with short- grey 

 hairs. Stipules \-^ in., lanceolate, scariose ; petiole ^-1 in. ; leaflets brought close to 

 one another by their edges, not at all coriaceous, full green above, pale green beneath, 

 minutely hair}" on both sides, exstipellate, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, ^1 in. each way. 

 Flowers 3-6 together, in dense heads like Lotus, on pilose peduncles overtopping the 

 leaves ; pedicels very short; bracts ^ in., silky, oblong or roundish, cuspidate. Calvs: 

 J-f in., densely brown-velvety ; teeth subequal, exceeding the tube. Corolla bright 

 red, half as long again as the calyx ; keel much incurved, distinctly rostrate. Po^ 

 oblong, included, subcylindrical, 1-seeded, finely hairy. 



Var. n Uglier icn sis ; leaflets smaller firmer more ac'ute, hairs of stem and petioles 

 longer and denser, flowers a dozen or more in a head, calyx-teeth linear, corolla 

 scarcely exserted. F. procumbens, Wight Ic. t. 087 ; I>alz, cf Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 75, non 

 Roxh, — Hills of "Western Peninsula. 



11. P- tuberosa, Dah, in Kew Jmiim, Bat, ii. 34; leaflets laBceolate 

 glabrous, stipules minute caducous, flowers very lax in few-flowered peduncled 

 dichotomous corymbs, corolla not exserted. Dalz, 8^ Gibs, Bomb, FL 75. 



CoNCAx, Balzell, Stocks, 



Stems 2-3 ft. long, copiously branched, thinly clothed with fine spreading hairs. 

 Leajltts rigidly subcoriaceous, acute, 1-2 in. long, those of the lowest leaves shorter, 

 oblong. Corymbs copious, terminal and axillary, distinctly peduncled, exceeding the 



xema, ijaiyx ^ in., strongly nbbea, aensely pilose ; teeth lanceolate, exceemng ^*^ 

 tube. Blade of standard round ; keel very narrow, abruptly incurved at the tip. ^^ 

 oblong, 1-2-seeded, if the latter slightly exceeding the calyx. 



86. DAX.BEAGZA, Linn. fll. 



Trees or climbing shrubsi. Leaves with alternate subcoriaceous leaflets. F^^^f^^ 

 copious, small, in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx campanulate ; teeth o, 

 distinct, usually short. Corolla exserted ; standard broad ; keel obtuse, ^ff 

 its petals only joined at the tip. Stamens 9-10, monadelphous or the ^^^^^ 

 slit down the 6eel ; anthers minute, basifixed, with the cells back to back, a»d ^^ 

 slit mostly short and apical. Ovary stalked, few-ovuled ; style short, incurvea, 

 glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod oblong or strap-shaped, usually thin and fl^^' 

 1-4-seeded, indehiscent, not thickened or winged at the sutures. — DistBIB* 

 Species 60-70, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



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