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leaves. Leaflets few, ciliated with adpressed bristles. Stipules semisagittate. Racemes axillary, few-flowered. 
Corolla yellow.—W. and A. Prod. p. 220. 
This is a small genus but as regards the discrimination of the species a most difficult one. There were origi- 
nally but two species, the number has been since much increased and must, I believe, from among the various 
forms met with on the Hills be still further augmented by probably as many as two or three species. This how- 
ever is a point not easily determined, for I think I have never met with a genus in which it is so difficult to find 
characters by which to discriminate the species, even in cases where to all appearance they are quite distinct. 
Indeed in the present instance I feel almost quite certain that the elements of two Species are to be found i 
the accompanying plate. The figure of the plant and dissections of the flower are taken from one specimen, 
and the figure showing the pod from another. The calyx which accompanies the pod is glandular and hairy 
within, that belonging to the specimen delineated is glabrous and eglandular, but the plants seemed the same. 
There are only six known and distinguished species of this genus, 5 of which are Indian and four of these I sus- 
pect natives of the Hills, namely, S. sensitiva, racemosa, blanda, and paniculata. Through the kindness of 
Mr. Law of Bombay I have other two, namely S. geminiflora? remarkable for bearing purple flowers and a new 
species which I propose dedicating to the discoverer, 
SMITHIA BLANDA (Wall) suffruticose, diffuse, every In the accompanying figures, No. 3 showing a mag- 
of the leaves 
ere, excep pper surface f and nified view of the bracts, calyx and stamens, is from a 
corolla, hairy: leaves abruptly pinnate 3 paired ; leaf- flower pi specimen represented. No. 6 
lets linear, elliptic, obtuse, mucrenat ous above, showing the calyx and pod belongs to apparently another 
a 
congested towards the apex: calyx 2-lipped, upper lip pod of the genus, partly to indicate a specific distinction, 
bifid, under 3-cleft; without pellucid glands or dots. the one being perforated with transparent glands which 
R. W. MSS. _ ; are wanting im the other. The glandular one is pro- 
Pycarah in moist swampy soil flowering in July. A bably S. racemosa but of this I am uncertain, as I 
r of S. 
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low growing diffuse plant, leaves abruptly pinnate, have not authentic specimens of either it o 
3-paired: leaflets about half aa inch long and half as blanda for examination, and the character under con- 
broad, linear elliptic, rounded at the apex, mucronate, sideration is not indicated in the published definition 
under surface hairy, glabrous above, flowers yellow. of either species. 
FLEMINGIA, 
Calyx ebracteolate at the base, acutely 5-cleft; the four upper segments about equal, the lower one usually 
much longer. Corolla papilionaceous : vexillum without callosities 3 the spurs inflexed at the margin: keel 
falcate. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary 2-ovuled, Style glabrous. Legume sessile, oval, turgid, 
2-seeded, without a partition between the seeds. Seeds nearly globose ; hilum small ; carunculus inconspi- 
cuous or wanting.—Shrubby or suffrutescent. Stipules scariose, lanceolate ; sometimes very large, usually 
deciduous. Leaves petioled, digitately trifoliolate or simple; under side usually dotted with small glands ; the 
nerves prominent, parallel, long and simple. Partial stipules wanting. Racemes axillary, solitary or aggregate, 
sometimes panicled. Flowers several together. Legumes more or less pubescent.—W. and A. Prod. p. 241. 
This genus, founded by Roxburgh in honor of his friend Dr. Fleming is pre-eminently an Indian one, none 
of its species having, so far as Tam aware, been found except in India and the countries adjoining. I have 
specimens of some of its species from Maulmain and Ceylon, but it seems not improbable they extend to Ma- 
lacca and far Eastward. All the species except the ore here represented are erect growing plants usually with 
long erect racemes of flowers. The one figured differs, therefore, so widely in habit from the rest of the species, 
that I had some difficulty in persuading myself that it really belonged to the genus. 
Owing, apparently, to some of the species having at first been referred to the genus Hedyserum, DeCan- 
dolle placed it in his tribe Hedysaree to which it clearly does not belong. It is now, though somewhat at 
variance with its usual twining habit, referred to the tribe Phaseolee, Several species besides the present 
are natives of the Hills, especially towards the Koonda range. 
FLEMINGIA PRocuMBENSs (R. W.) herbaceous, dif- the veins, beneath: uncles longer than the leaves : 
fuse, procumbent, hairy : leaves palmately trifoliolate; flowers capitate : PR steric 5-cleft, divisions linear, 
middle leaflet obovate, lateral ones ovate, slightly un- ceolate, acute, a f the corolla: ovary 
equal at the base, hairy above, nearly glabrous, except 2-seeded: stigma capitate hairy ; legume shorter than 
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