318 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Glycime., 
round-obovate. Racemes axillary, intercepted. Legumes 
nearly straight, with an erect beak. 
Sans. Masha purnee. 
Beng. Mashanee. 
Is a native of Bengal and other parts of India, but scarce. 
Flowering time the rains; the seed — during the cold 
season, | 
Root, (I believe) perennial. Stem none, but many slender, 
diffuse, bairy branches spreading on the ground, with twin- 
ing extremities, when they meet with support, Leaves termate. 
Leaflets roundish, obovate, hoary, and hairy underneath ; 
veins parallel, Petioles channelled, hairy. Stipules of the 
petioles and leaflets ensiform, Racemes axillary, solitary, 
_ hairy, about as long as the leaves. Flowers in small, remote 
fasciculi, minute, of a deep reddish violet,. Legumes nearly 
—— hairy, beak erect, Seeds about six or seven. 
2. G. labialis, Roxb. : 
Perennial, twining. Leaves ternate ; leaffets ovate- oiolenigs 
Filaments alternately sterile. Corol wane two-lipped, 
_A pretty extensive, shrubby species, common on banks of 
water courses, in forests, &e. Flowers during the rains. 
Stem woody, twining, slender, a little hairy, Leaves ter- 
nate. Leaflets ovate, entire, a little hairy on the under side, 
of a deep green above, about an inch and a half long. Pedi- 
oles chanhelled, Stipules acute, hairy ; those of the leaflets 
subulate. Racemes axillary, longer than the leaves, inter- 
rupted. Flowers numerous, small, rose-coloured, collected 
on the alternate glandular tuberosities of the raceme. Calyx 
hairy. Banner emarginate, with the sides reflected, Wings 
projecting, horizontal, hiding the keel, which makes the flow- 
ers appear two-lipped rather than papilionaceous ; keed short, 
as if truncated. Filaments one and nine, alternately shorter 
and sterile. Anthers five, oval, incumbent on the five long- 
er filaments. Legumes straight, short, round, erect, eel 
strong pointed, from six totwelve-seeded, 
