Il8 PAPlLlONACfi^. 



DUMASIA. F.B.I. 50 LVil. 



Slender-Stemmed twining plants with pinnately three- 

 foliate leaves distinguished by the calyx with bulging 

 base and oblique truncate mouth (hardly any teeth) ; the 

 standard petal with two spurs at the base ; the style 

 long and flattened above the curve, and with capitate 

 stigma. 



Species three only, India, South Africa, Malaya and Japan. 



Dumasia villosa : F.B.I. ii 183, LVII l ; a climber with 

 pinnately three-foliate leaves ; short racemes of flowers 

 with long and almost toothless calyx out of which pokes 

 the yellow corolla ; and velvety pod contracted between 

 the seeds. 



Stem slender, twining, thickly coated, as also the 



stipules, leaf-stalks, undersides of leaflets, calyx and 



pod with short yellowish hairs. Stipules % inch acute ; 



petiole I to 2 inches. Leaflets nearly equal, ovate, obtuse, 



mucronate, glabrous above, when young ciliate : middle 



stalk Yz inch, lateral Y^ inch. Racemes 2 to 4 inches, few 



flowered : peduncle slender, 2 inches or more, in var 



congesta very much shorter. Calyx Y2> inch bulging 



forwards at the base and narrowed to the very oblique 



mouth. Corolla exserted % io H inch, hanging with 



the small round standard downwards : wings obovate, 



curved downwards, adhering slightly to the keel which 



is shorter, and has a slender claw longer than the oval 



blade. Style thickened suddenly at the bend, then 



thinner : stigma with radiating hairs. Pod enclosed at 



the narrow base by the calyx, contracted between the 



few seeds very velvety, opening by both edges. Wight 



let. 445. 



Quite common in sholas on the Octacamund and the Kodai- 

 kanal downs. J^yson 528, 693. Bourne 849,^- 204. 



