llliynclwsia LE< ; I ' M INGS J-: , ."> 



beneath, 3-S(-12) cm. 1. /,Vo'/r.s with many brownish-yellow ilowers, 

 5-15 cm. L, sometimes branching. Culns birtellous, 3-4 mm. 1., lower 

 segment 4 mm. 1. Standard somewhat obovate-roundish, with purplish 

 veins, puberulous outside, and often with minute glandular dots, with 

 minute slightly inflexed au at the base, '8-1 cm. 1. (incl. claw, wedge- 



shaped, 1-6 mm. 1.) : wing oblong, shorter than the standard, with a 

 triangular acute auricle (claw 2 mm. 1.) ; keel subfalcate, almost semi- 

 t'lliptical, about equal to the wings, and twice as broad (claw 2 '4 mm. 1.). 

 Pod puberulous, especially 011 the edges, at length glabrate, 2-seeded, 

 2-2*5 cm. L, or sometimes 1-seeded, 1*5 cm. 1. Seeds ellipsoidal, black, 

 scarlet only round the hiluin, or extending over half or the greater part of 

 the surface, about 6 mm. in diam., somewhat like those of Abnts JD-* 

 tori/ix, and the plant is therefore sometimes (though wrongly) called 

 11 NYild Liquorice." 



[FLEMINGIA Roxb. 



Erect undershrubs or shrubs, in species occurring in the 

 "\Vest Indies. Leaves digitately 1-3-foliolate : leaflets with 

 prominent veins and glandular dots beneath. Inflorescence 

 various; in F. #t>-olilif<'r<(, flowers in small cymes, each cyme 

 hidden by a large folded persistent bract closely and distichously 

 arranged in axillary racemes; in jP. xti-ieta, flowers in dense 

 subspicate axillary racemes, the bracts linear or lanceolate, 

 caducous. Calyx-tube short ; segments narrow, acuminate, the 

 lowest often the longest. Standard auricled at base. Upper- 

 most stamen free, the rest united. Stigma small, terminal. 

 Ovules '2. Pod short, swollen. 



Species about 22, natives of tropical Asia, Africa, and 

 Australia. 



Leaves 1-foliolate F. strobilifeni. 



Leaves 3-foliolate F. stricta. 



1. F. strobilifera E. Br. in Ait. Sort. Km-. e<l. 2. //-. :>50 

 (1812): leaves 1-foliolate; bracts, persistent, and broadly 

 cordate.- Wi</ltt Ic. t. 267; Grisel. Fl. Br. W. In<L I'll : BL 

 in Hook. f. FL Br. Lid. ii. 227. Hedysarum foliis .simplicihus 

 foliolis etc. L. Fl. Zeyl. 134, t. 3. H. strobiliferum L. Sp. PL 

 746 (1753). Moghania strobilifera St. HiL in Drxr. .l<>u,-n. Bot. 

 i. 61 (1813). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Wild Hops. 



Koadsides, a weed in pastures; Hopewell, St. Mary' j/.-A"r//' ! St. Mary, 

 Purdii.'\ Marchl J.P. 870, Morris ! Dover Ci L800 it,, I 



Grounds; Grove, near Hope; Stony Hill, 1000 ft.; Harris \ I'l. Jain. 

 6974, 10,070, 11,770; Bog VValk, Hitchcock; IV.rt Antonio, Rothrocl;.- 

 East Indies, introduced in West Indies and ^Mauritius. 



Shrub to 5 ft. and more. Leaven elliptical, narrowing to the apex, 

 5-2 dm. L; petiole 1-2 cm. 1. Injhn-f^ > -m-e 5-15 cm. 1. Braetx broader 

 than long, 1'2-2'S cm. 1. Calyx 5-6 mm. 1., pubescent. Standtinl 

 6-5 mm. 1. ; wings 5 mm. 1. ; keel not extending beyond the standard, but 

 curved upwards. l'<>d about 1 cm. 1. 



