338 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Flembigm. 



1. V. procnmbens. Roxb. 



Permnial, procumbent, three-sided, pnrticulmly when 

 dry. Racemes axillary, the length of the leaves. Legumes 

 and cahjx besprinkled with garnet coloured grains. 



A native of the mountains north of Oude, and Rohilcund. 

 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 the 

 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. Bracies 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- 

 ly 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 two, spheri- 

 cal, gray, speckled with blackish brown. 



2. F. prostrata. Roxb. Jnn. 



Somewhat shrubby, prostrate ; young parts three-sided, 

 and doAvny. Leaflets lanceolate, acute. Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, length of the ])etioles. 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 rains, in November, and ripen their 

 seed during the cool season. 



Root perennial. Stem scarcely any. ^rawc/tes procumbent ; 



