Rl apa ess gh or Re ee ls a ae TE a SEE 
Flemingia, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 341 
three-nerved ; petioles winged. Racemes terminal, and axil- 
lary, panicled. 
A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the seed 
to this garden, where in little more than one year, the plants 
were tall, elegant, ramous, stout, erect shrubs, with the bark | 
of the ligneous parts dark brown, and smooth, of the ten- 
der parts villous. Leaves ternate. Leaflets nearly equal, 
broad-lanceolate, entire, fine-pointed, smooth on both sides, | 
from four to six inches long, and from one and a half to two 
broad, Peiioles shorter than the leaves, with broad membra- 
naceous villous margins. Racemes axillary, and terminal, 
generally compound, particularly the terminal ones, and they 
are often panicled, Bractes chaffy, lanceolate, oné-flowered, 
caducous. Flowers numerous, large, rose-coloured, striated 
with greenish yellow, and purple. Calyx villous; segments 
five, nearly equal, ensiform, about as long as the corol. Fi- 
laments one and nine. The single one greatly enlarged near 
the base. Legume sessile, oval, slightly villous, turgid, the 
size of a field bean. Seeds small, sage) round, smooth, 
—_ black. 
6 F. lineata. R. 
_ Shrubby, erect, ramous. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, aes 
nerved, and strongly marked with veins. Stipules stem- 
clasping, scarious, Racemes axillary, long-peduneled, sub- 
secund, often compound. Legumes villous, and mealy. 
Heydysarum lineatum, Linn, Burm, Fi. Ind. 167, t. 53. 
fil. | 
A native of the Peninsula of India. Flowers during the 
rainy and cold seasons, | be Aaa? 
7. F. angustifolia. R. 
Shrubby, straight. Leaflets lanceolate, villous under- 
neath, Racemes, or heads, terminal, and froni‘the Gxtorioe a 
axills, solitary, sessile, nee a ee of the | 
Legumes villous, | : 
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