268 ' XL, LEGUMiNos.E. [Enosema. 



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clusters, the standard often silky-villous. Bracts very deciduous; Lracteoks 

 none. 



The genus is numerous in S. American and African species, with a single tropical Asiatic 

 one which is the same as the only Australian one. Formerly considered as a sRctiou of 

 ' Rki/nchosia, it differs in the position of the seeds and generally in habit. 



1. E. chinense, Vog. in PL Meyen. 31. Eliizome a perennial oblong 

 tuljer. Steins erect, i to 1 ft. high, simple or branching at the base only, 

 more or less hirsute with long rust-coloured hairs, intermixed with a short 

 pubescence. Leaflets solitary, nearly sessile, from oblong-lanceolate to linear, 

 1 to 2 in. long, sprinkled with a few long hairs on the upper surface and on 

 the veins of the lower one, otherwise glabrous above, hairy or glaucous un- 

 derneath. Peduncles axilhnry, exceedingly short, with 1, 2 or rarely 3 flowers, 

 about 4 Hues long. Bracts *small, narrow. Calyx pubescent or villous, the 

 lobes either shorter than the tube, or with long subulate points. Pod 4 to 6 

 lines long, 3 to 4 lines broad, covered with long rusty hairs, — Pyrrhotricha 

 tubtrom, W. and Arn. Prod. i. 238; Rhynchma virgata, Hainilt, in A\all. 

 Cat. n. 5503. 



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N- Australia. Arnhcm N. Bay, K Brown; Port Essington, Armstrong, 

 Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cunninyham, " , ,, 



The species is frequent in the hilly districts of N. India, also in Ceylon, Burmah, the 

 Philippines, and S. Chiua. 



65. FLEMINaiA, Eoxb. 



Calyx4obes nearly equal or the lowest longer. Standard oval obovate or 

 orbicular, with inflexcd auricles at the base, often callous inside ; keel incurved, 

 obtuse or acute; wings usually rather shorter. Vexillary stamen free, the 

 others united; anthers uniform. Ovary short, sessile or nearly so, with ^ 

 ovules ; style filiform, incurved above the middle and often slightly thickened; 

 stigma terminal. Pod very oblique, short, turgid, 2-valved. Seeds with a 

 sfiort hiluin without any strophiole. — Herbs undershrubs or shrubs, rarely 

 twining, usually tomentose or pubescent and sprinkled with resinous uoU 

 Leaves digitately S-foliolate or 1-foliolate, without stipelUc, the veins of Jhe 



leaflets verv ""^ 



Plowers p 



cemes. Bracts either like the stipules or (in species 

 leafv, concave, enclosino: the flowers. Bracteoles none. 



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The genus is most nuraerons in tropical Asia, with one or two African species. ^^^ 



Australian species two are coininon to E. India and the Archipelago, the other ^^'1,^'^^^^^, 

 deinie. The species with large Ical'y hracts forming the section Ostryodlum, V^j ^ ^^^ 

 -on in the Archipelago, have not yet heeu found in Australia. The habit and ^*^^ji?^*^?.^^j^. 

 genus are almost those of some Genistets^ from which tribe, however, it is readily i^^^^ 

 gnished by the free upper stamen. Several species also resemble some Psoraleas, 

 ovary and pod are quite different. 



Jlowers in small loose panicles 1- ■^- ^"^^''.J* . 



Flowers 2 or 3 on a short axillary peduncle ^' ^^^"^''^^0^. 



Flowers in axillary oblong spike-like racemes ........ 3. ^-^^''7 ^,L 



Flowers in dense globular sessile heads 4. Z*. mvoliicrai . 



1. P, lineata, RoxL ; DC. Prod ii, 351. An erect undcrshnib or b^ 

 shrub with slender branches^ the young parts and inflorescence minutely ru^ ; 



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