1 50 PAPILIONACE^. 



Atylosia candollci Wight and Arnott ; Herb. Wight 

 Prop. 1631 ! ; RB.l. ii 212, LXXIX l. Branches, leaf- 

 stalks, undersides of leaflets, calyx, and more especially 

 in the younger parts densely clothed with erect hairs : 

 twigs stiff. Stem grooved, very hairy on the ridges 

 between. Leaf-stalk ^ inch erect : internodes hardly 

 longer so that the foliage is usually very dense. Leaflets 

 elliptic or obovate-cuneate, I to 3^^ inches by J^ to I 

 inch ; lateral somewhat oblique ; terminal slightly 

 larger ; stalks about equal ; pubescent on the upper side, 

 densely so on the raised veins of the lower ; distinctly 

 sticky. Peduncles of the pairs of flowers erect, in the 

 lower axils 2 inches, in the upper short to o : pedicels 

 ^ inch. Calyx ^ to M inch densely silky, teeth two to 

 three times the cup. Petals as long again, pure gamboge 

 yellow : keel blunt without beak. Stamens all equal, 

 upper one free. Pod very hairy, 1% by % inch, with 

 a short abrupt point, surrounded at the base by the per- 

 sistent calyx and corolla, and slightly indented between 

 the three or four seeds, t. 89. Wight Ic. 754. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund, Snowdon, etc., flowering July. 

 Fpon 2681. Bourne 4627. 



Gen. Dist. Also Ceylon. 



The flowers face upwards with the keel erect and standard horizontal. 

 The standard is bent back near its base, and there presses against two 

 small points on the wing petals. These latter are attached to the. keel, 

 if oney can be got only by a stout proboscis pushed home between the 

 standard and the wings. But the standard stiffened at this point by being 

 bent, and supported also by the calyx behind it, remains firm, so that 

 the wings and with them the keel petals are pushed apart exposing the 

 stamens. 



The flowers have the smell of musk, the leaves a little that of the 

 •' Cedar-wood " of pencils. The petals fade a rich purple-terracotta colotir 

 beginning with the back of the standard. 



Atylosia rugosa Wight and Arnott; Herb. Wight 

 Prop. 761 ! ; F.5./. ii 215, LXXIX 12; remarkable for its 

 very slender stems running in grass and the very 

 conspicuous veins of the underside of the small leaflets. 

 Leaf-stalks J^ to i inch, erect, clothed like the young 



