226 • XL. L'EGUMINOS.E.' [Ormocarpim. 



elongated in<lehisccnt articles, narrowed at each end and longitudinally fur- 

 rowed, often only one coming to perfection. — Tall shrubs. Leaves pinnate 

 with small leaflets, or in a species not Australian, of 1 large leaflet. Stipules 

 striate. Flowers yellow, Avhitc, or streaked with purple, solitary or few to- 

 gether in axillary racemes. Bracts and bracteoles persistent. 



Besides the Australian species, which has a wide range in tropical Asia, there are 2 or 3 

 from tropical Africa, and 2 or 3 less perfectly known fi'om Mexico. 



1, O. sennoides, DC. Frod. ii. 315, var. lavis. Perfectly glabrous, 

 without the glandular pubescence of the common E. Indian form. Leaflets 

 9 to 15, broadly oblong, very obtuse, | to f in. long. Stipules lanceolate- 

 acuminate, sometimes very small, sometimes broad and 2 lines long. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, either short and 1-flowered, or rather longer, bearing 3 or 3 

 flowers. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long, with 2 small bracteoles above the midfUe. 

 riowers yellow, about 5 lines long. Pod usually of 3 or 4 articles, but some 

 remaining small and imperfect, and 1 or 2 only ripening, attaining in tki^ 

 variety above 1 in. in length, and about 3 lines broad in the middle.— ^^''^^^y* 

 nomene cohdeoides, A. Kich. Sert. AstroL 87. t. 32.. 



Queeifsland. Eudeavour river?, Banks and Solander, R. Brown, I have seen Aus- 

 tralian specimens only in Herb. R. Brown, and a coloured figure in Sir J. Banks's unpub- 

 lished plates, neither with the precise station. This glabrous variety extends <>^^^ ^^^^Jf' 

 chipelago to Siam and the Philippines. The common E. Indian form (Wight, Ic. t. t'ii) 

 has usually a glandular-pubescent inflorescence, and the pods with shorter articles more or 

 less glandular- wai-ted ; but there appear to be intermediates preventing the maintaimng ttie 

 two forms as independent species. 



41. iESCHYTfOMENE, Linn. 



Calyx-lobes nearly equal or united into two lips, either entire or the 

 upper one 2-lobed, the lower 3-lobed. Standard orbicular ; keel much curved 

 and almost Ijeaked, or rarely obovate and nearly straight. Stamens usuany 

 all united in a sheath more or less s " " " 



dividing the stamens into two bundLc ^, ^ ^ci^l., c.....-.^ - 



stipitate, with 2 or more ovules ; style filiform or subulate. Pod siipitate, 

 separating into 2 or more short flat usually indehiscent reticulate f*rti^^^®' . 

 Herbs undershrubs or in non-Australian species shrubs. Leaves ^^^'^|]^ • 

 ■pinnate, with small leaflets, without stipelte. Stipules free. Flowers yelio , 

 often streaked witb red, in axillary or rarely terminal racemes. 



A considerable tropical genus, the species numerous in America, fewer in Africa, ^^^J^^-^ 

 two in Asia. Of the two Australian ones, one is common in Asia and Africa, the ota 

 South America and South Africa, 



Leaflets numerous. Stipules produced below their insertion. Calyx deeply _ ,. ^. 



2-lipned .... _ . 1. -^- ^" 



plit both on the lipper and lower edge, 

 lies of 5 each; anthers reniform. _^^^^J 



leaflets 7 to 11. Stipules striate, persistent, not produced below their iu- , , .^^ 



sertion. Calvx-lobes tiearlv pnnnl 2. -^•Z^'* 



A diffuse or erect annual of 



Calyx-lobes nearly equal 



2E. indica 



±. .<Xi. luoica^ ijinn, ; nu. Frod, u. 320. A dittuse or erect '*»"" 

 1 to 2 ft., or when luxuriant iu very wet places 3 ft. high, usually g^^^J^gQ^ 

 but the stem occasionally bearing a few asperities. Leaflets usually ^^ .' 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. Stipules '^1^^^'^ l^^^j 

 acute, produced below their insertion into a rounded appendage. ^^^5 {g 

 flhorter than the leaves, loosely 2- to 4-ilowered, and often bearing a pi^^ 



