338 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Flemingia. 
1. F. procumbens, Roxb. 
Perennial, procumbent, three-sided, particularly when 
dry. Racemes axillary, the length of the leaves. Legumes 
and ealyx besprinkled with garnet-coloured grains. 
A native of the mountains north of Oude, and Robileund. 
In the Botanic garden it blossoms throughout the dry season. 
Root perennial. Stem none, but many ramous, three-sid- 
ed, villous, somewhat ligneous branches, springing from thé 
crown of the root, and spreading flat on the ground, their 
length, in two years old plants, from one to two feet. Leaves 
ternate. Leaflets entire, villous underneath, somewhat three- 
nerved, and marked throughout with veins, the pair oblique- 
ly oval, the terminal one obovate, Stipules paired, stem- 
clasping, villous, caducous, Racemes axillary, generally so- 
litary, about the length of the leaves, their upper half thick- 
ly set with short-pedicelled, small flowers, strongly marked 
with deeper coloured purplish lines. Bractes of the pedicel 
about as long as the pedicel, oblong, one-flowered, cadu- 
cous; those of the calyx subulate, very small and also cadu- 
cous, Calyx deeply five-cleft, hairy and marked with gar- 
net-coloured glands on the outside, Banner roundish, strong- 
Jy marked with deeper and lighter coloured lines ; wings pur- 
ple; keel pale rose, Stamens one, and nine. Anthers ovate. 
Stigma large, capitate. Legume sessile, oval, besprinkled 
with garnet-coloured-glands, one-celled, Seeds 6. Spee 
= Bray, Corea with blackish brown. Sey tars 
2: F. prostrata. Roxb. Jun. 
~ Somewhat shrubby, prostrate ; young parts thredanded, 
and downy. Leaflets lanceolate, acute. Racemes axillary, 
solitary, length of the petioles, Legume villous. = 
This species was raised from seed sent by Mr. Kerr from 
China to the Botanic garden in 1805, where they blossom 
about the close of the = in November, and sone their 
seed during the cool season. — | 
Root perennial. Stem eatery any. Brace proc 
