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262 • XL. LEGUMINOS^. [D^vibarla, 



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Stipules striate or small or none. Flowers usually yellow, in axillary racemes, 

 singly scattered along the rhachis or rarely solitary in the axils. Bracts 

 usually broad and membranous, biit very deciduous. Bracteoles none. 



The genus extends, like Afylosia, over E. India and tke Archipelago, the Australian spe- 

 cies being one of the most widely dispersed. Nearly allied to Atijlosia, it has the pod almost 

 of a Bolichos^ differing from Rh}/)fchosia only in the more numerous ovnles. 



1. D. conspersa^ Benth, in PL Jttngh. i. 241. A slender twiner, 

 boary all over with a minute tomentum^ scarcely becoming glabrous when old, 

 and more or less sprinkled with resinous dots. Leaflets broadly rbomboidal, 

 rarely 1 in. long, entire or the terminal one broadly sinuate-3-lobed. Flowers 

 rather small, yellow, 2 together or rarely solitary in the axils of the leaves, 

 on short pedicels. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-Mcate, the upper and lower ones 

 longer than the tube. Pod nearly straight or falcate, obliquely acuminate, 1 

 to 1^ in. long, glabrous or slightly" tomentose. Seeds 6 to 8, with an oblong 

 hilum and a rather thicker strophiole than in most species. — DoUchosf?) 

 rlipicJiosioides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 185. 



Queensland. Dunk Island, M'GiUivray. The species ranges over the eastern pro- 

 vinces of India and the Archipelago up to S. China, It has very much the aspect of some 

 of the common trailing Rhpichosias, hut the pod is quite different. 



62. ATYIiOSIA, W. and Arn. 



(Cantharospermura, Jf. and Am.) 



Calyx-lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones united into 1 entire or slightly 

 toothed one. Standard orbicular, reflexed, with 2 inflexed auricles at the 

 base and often with 2 slight callosities inside ; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper 

 stamen free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovarj^ sessile, with se- 

 veral ovules ; style filiform, incurved and rather thickened above the middle; 

 stigma terminnl, small. Pod oblong or broadly linear, straight, scarcely acu- 

 minate, 2-valved, Avith partitions between the seeds, the valves coriaceous or 

 rarely thin, transversely indented between the seeds. Seeds ovate or orbi- 

 cular, with an oblonjj hilum and a thick fleshy strophiole.— Trailing or twin- 

 ing herbs or erect shrubs, usually tomentose *or softly villous. Leaves pin- 

 nntcly trifoliolate, without stipellae ; leaflets usually glandular-dotted unoer- 

 nenth. Stipules small or none. Flowers yellow, solitaiy^ or clustered in the 

 axils or at the end of axillary^ peduncles. Bracts usually broad and membra- 

 nous, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Bracteoles none. 



The genu3 extends over E. India and the Archipelago and westward to the Mauritius, 

 the Australian species, one is common over the whole range of the genus, the others are en- 

 demic. F. Mueller proposes to reunite it with Cajanus to which it is closely allied, but tn 

 pod is differently shaped, and the strophiole appears to he constant. It only differs tro 

 some sections of Rhjnchosia in the ovules always more than 2. 

 Stems trailing or twining. 



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Pod broad, thin, transversely reticulate. Leaflets broadly obovate 



or orbicular -. 1. ^. mdmorata. 



Pod coriaceous with deeply depressed transverse lines between the 



seeds. Leafl.'ts rhomboid ovate or elliptical. 

 Pedicels axillary solitary or clustered with scarcely any common , . v^, 



peduncle \ ! , . • i^ A. smrahaoides 



Peduucles axillary, ofteo exceeding the leaves !,!!.. 8. ^. reiictdais- 



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