516 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Petiole usually not winged. Racemes dense, usually clustered and shorter than 

 the petiole, greyish silk-hairy. Bracts linear-lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, about 

 4 lines long. Calyx Sk lines long, the lobes linear, subulate-acuminate, the lower- 

 most much longer. Corolla 3A- lines long, purplish, with a flesh-coloured purplish- 

 streaked standard. 



r. PEOsiEATA, Roxb. Hills East of Toung-ngoo between 4000 and 5000 feet. 



As preceding. Racemes appressed tawny-pubescent, much shorter than the 

 narrowly-winged petiole. Pods densely resinose-glandular and puberulous. 



The Burmese rariety differs from Khasi specimens chiefly in the long-acuminate 

 not wrinkled leaflets and the black-glandular pods. 



F. sEiiiALATA, Rosb. var. /3 only all over Burma. 



Petiole narrowly winged. Racemes rather lax, greyisli silk-hairy. Calyx 3 liiiis 

 long, the lobes subulate. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate. Corolla 3 lines long, 

 rose-coloured, with greenish keel. Pods puberulous. 



var. n genuina. Racemes elongate, more robust. 



var. ji viridis. Racemes simple, more lax and slender, more silk-hairy, always 

 clustered in the axils of tlie leaves, and much shorter than the petiole ; leaves of a 

 thinner texture or less pubescent ; flowers and pods usually smaller. 



F. LATiFOLiA, Bth. var. /3 in the hills East of Toung-ngoo 



between 2000 and 4000 feet. 



Petiole narrowly winged. Bracts and calyx approssedly brown or golden silk- 

 haiiy, the latter h inch long, the lobes subulate with the lowermost one twice as 

 long. Corolla i inch long, white, with rose-coloured wings. 



var. a genuina. Racemes more lax and more slender, branched, 

 var. p grandiflora. Racemes simple, shorter and more dense. Flowers about ^ 

 larger. 



° ° Bracts scarioiis and stiff, very much longer tlian tlie flou;er-huds. Branches and 

 hranchhts more or less triquetrous. 



F. STEicTA, Roxb. All over Burma. 



Tall under shrub. Petiole narrowly winged. Lower sheathing bracts up to 2 

 inches long. Calyx about 4 linos long, silvery silk-hairy, the lobes linear, acuminate, 

 the lowermost one twice as long. Corolla nearly i inch long. Pods minutely 

 appressed puberulous. 



X X Spikes short and condensed info heads. Bracts all persistent, the outer ones 

 large and inrolucre-lihe. Bod inclosed in the calgx, l-seeded (Lepidocoma, Jungh ). 



F. CAPiiATA, Zoll. All over Pegu and Martaban. 



F. inrolucrata, Bth. 

 Lepidocoma trifoliatum, Jungh. 



Erect under shrub. Bracts silky-pilose. Calyx i inch long, the lobes subulate. 

 Corolla -} inch long, minutely appressed silk-haiiy. Pods silky-pilose. 



Sub-genus Rhynchosioides, Bak. 



Twining herbs or perennials. Flowers in long peduncled lieads or dichotomous 

 corymbs. Cab/x-tccth almost ecjiuil. Pods 1- rarely 2 -seeded, usually included in 

 the calyx. Bracts minute, deciduous. 



*F. VESTITA, Grah. Cultivated by the Karens of Martaban 



between 3000 and 5000 feet. 

 Flowers by 4-10 in long-peduncled heads. Calyx fulvous-pilose, ^ inch long. 

 Corolla appressed pilose, nearly \ inch long. 



X X Funicle arising from the extrcmitg of the linear hilain. 

 Eeiosema, BeCandolle. 

 Pod transversely depressed. Erect herbs, flowers axillary. Leaves simple. 



