340 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. —- Flemingia, 
gether. Bractes solitary, lanceolate, one-flowered. Flowers 
numerous, pedicelled, small, pale.greenish pink, with deeper 
stripes. Ca/yx unequally five-cleft, besprinkled on the out- 
side with numerous, minute, clammy, ferruginous glands. Le- 
gume oval, densely clothed with clammy reddish glands, as 
are, in some measure, the pedicels and racemes also. 
4. F. conjesta, Roxb. 
Shrubby, sub-erect. Leaflets broad lanceolate. Racemes 
axillary, sub-sessile, heaped. 
Beng. and Hind. Bura salpan. 
This species is a native of the Delta of the Ganges. Flow- 
ering time the cold season; the seed oe in two or three 
months afterwards. 
Stems several, oblique, woody; young parts a 
Branches few, general height of the whole plant from three 
to six feet. Leaves ternate. Leaflets short-petioled, three- 
nerved, entire, pretty smooth above, villous underneath, the 
terminal one broad-lanceolate ; the lateral ones of nearly the 
same size, and shape, but broader at the base and less dis- 
tinctly marked with the three nerves, about six or eight inches 
long, Petioles nearly round, and villous, Séipules rather 
short, tapering from a broad base to a fine point, Racemes 
axillary, generally crowded,-about as long as the petioles, 
Bractes shorter than the calyx, one-flowered, caducous, 
Flowers very numerous, and beautifully striated with orange 
and purple. Legume the length of the lower division of the 
calyx, sub-reniform, one-jointed, two-seeded. 
_ This species has much the habit of my F. stricta, but dif- - 
fers widely in its specific character. In this the racemes are 
crowded, in that single ; in this the bractes are eee — 
the —— in that scineet times longer. Pel eS 
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a ramous, Leaves ternate, Leafs oblong 
