230 XLVII, § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Eriosema. 
dard deep red, 2 in. broad, the keel pale. Pod 3-2 in. long, 2 in. broad, 
thickly clothed with long tawny silky hairs. 
Nile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant ! : Mee 
This and its two neighbours resemble closely the common East Indian Flemingre in 
general habit, but the central leaflet is stalked and the pod just that of Hriosema. 
18. E. speciosum, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 2-4 ft. high with 
firm densely grey-downy branches. Stipules $—} in., ovate-lanceolate, 
subpersistent. Petioles 4-1 in.; leaflets 3, subcoriaceous, dull green, 
elabrescent above, finely downy with raised veins below, end one 
oblong-lanceolate acute reaching 3-4 in. long; petiolule }—} in. ; lateral 
ones erecto-patent equal-sided. Flowers in close casually forked short- 
stalked terminal racemes 3-6 in. long. Bracts 3—4 lines, lanceolate cus- 
pidate, very silky. Pedicels very short. Calyx 34~4 lines, finely silky, 
teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube. Corolla #—-Z in., yellow; stan- 
dard oblong-spathulate, 3 in. broad, keel violet. Pod oblong, 6—7 lines 
long, Zin. broad, clothed with spreading tawny silky hairs. 
Lower Guinea. NHuilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Very near LZ. flemingioides, from which it differs mainly by its larger flowers and 
narrower leaflets. 
72. FLEMINGIA, Roxb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 544. 
Calyx-teeth subequal or the lowest longer. Standard obovate or 
orbicular, the base appendiculate with inflexed auricles ; wings obliquely 
obovate or oblong’, often adhering to the keel; keel incurved or nearly 
straight, obtuse or acute. Upper stamen free, the others connate ; 
anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, short, biovulate ; style filiform or 
slightly incrassated above; stigma small, terminal. Pod short, oblique, 
turgid, two-valved, continuous within—Erect or prostrate shrubs. 
A moderately small genus, belonging principally to Tropical Asia. 
Leaves simple. 
Cer eS a ea as nS ee eee 
Flowers in short-stalked clusters ee oe ae . 2. F oblongifolia. 
Leaves digitately trifoliolate. . . . . .... =... + «. 3. £. rhodocarpa. 
1. FP. faginea, Baker. An erect shrub with woody subterete chest- 
nut-brown slender branches clothed upwards with short dense grey 
pubescence. Stipules small, lanceolate, deciduous. Petioles 4—{ 1- 
long, firm, grey-pubescent; leaves simple, rotundato-cordate, 2 in. 
each way, bluntish, subcoriaceous, both sides finely grey-silky when 
young. Flowers solitary, or casually in pairs from the axils.of the leaves 
on silky pedicels { in, long. Calyx 4in. deep, finely grey-silky, the 
teeth lanceclate, reaching half down. Corolla red, scarcely exceeding 
the calyx. Pod oblique-oblong, turgid, finely villous —Rhynchosia, 
Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 212, t. 52. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Lepriewr and Perrottet ! 
2. F. oblongifolia, Baker. An erect copiously branched shrub 
4—5 ft. high with firm woody slender angular finely grey-pubescep* 
