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Cylista, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, — 819 
3. G. tenuiflora, Willd, iii. 1059. 
Perennial, twining, filiform, Leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate- 
oblong, smooth, Racemes axillary, longer .than the leaves, 
Flowers fascicled. 
A rare plant, a native of low, rich pasture ground, among 
bushes, near Samulkota, Flowering time the rainy season, 
Reot woody, perennial. Stem or branches many, twining, 
filiform, round, slightly woolly when examined with a lens, 
from two to three feet long. Leaves ternate. Leaflets broad- 
lanceolate, obtuse with a small point, smooth, from one to. two 
inches long. Petio/es round, a little hairy. Stipules of the 
petioles acute, withering ; those of the leaflets small, bristle- 
like. Racemes axillary, generally solitary, and larger than 
the leaves, interrupted. Bractes small, pointed, two press- 
ing on the calyx. lowers rose-coloured, collected in little 
heads of from two to four on the glandular tuberosities of the 
raceme. Calyx four-parted ; upper divisions jargest, point- 
ed, resting on the banner, Style and stigma smooth, Le- 
gumes erect, compressed, from four to eight-seeded. 
CYLISTA, Schreb. gen. N.1759. 
" Calyx very large, four-parted ; upper division cleft at the 
end. Corol permanent, legume two-seeded. 
 1..C. tomentosa, Roxb. Ind. pl. N. 221. 
Perennial, twining. Divisions of the calyx cuneate, Le- 
gume of one or two round lobes, with one round, blue-violet, 
highly polished seed in each, ; 
Is a native of Mysore, where it was discovered by Dr, 
Buchanan, and the seeds sent by him to the Botanic garden, 
where the plants thrive well, and blossom about the close of 
the rains, and during the cold season; the seed —— in 
March and April, 
Stem perennial, short, with but few stunted ‘amelie in its 
native, sterile soil, but in the Botanic garden the second year 
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