I^APILIONACE^. 12t 



branches with brown pubescence. Leaflets J4 inch ; 

 terminal one obovate cuneate, lateral obliquely obovate ; 

 velvety on the upper side with impressed veins ; white 

 or almost orange below especially on the much-raised 

 veins. Peduncles ^ to ij^ inches, % to I inch apart 

 along leafless branches : pedicels % inch, bracts cons- 

 picuous, % inch ovate- Calyx ^ inch, teeth equal to 

 the tube. Corolla J4 inch, yellow ; remaining for some 

 considerable time, but not quite until the pod has 

 ripened. Pod ^ inch by % inch, rounded at both ends 

 except for the short stylar point, mostly one-seeded but 

 also with two or three seeds, densely pubescent, brown, 

 opening by both edges, the valve curling up when dry : if 

 with two seeds divided inside between them. Seeds 

 brown or purple, with a large double fleshy excrescence 

 (strophile) on the hilum side, more than half as long as 

 the seed itself. 



Pulneys : on the Kodaikanal downs, very common. Nilgiris : 

 near Ootacamund, much less common. Fpon 1089, 1099, 1488. 

 Bourne 109 1, 2040. 



Gen. Dist. South Indian hills and Ceylon. Not on the Bombay Ghats 

 to the north, nor apparently anywhere else in India. 



The leaflets show very marked sleep-movements, folding along the mid- 

 rib, and becoming nearly erect against the stalk at sundown. I have not 

 detected any scent as in the other species. 



FLEMINGIA. f.b.i. 50 lxxxv. 



Leaflets three, gland-dotted below and equally 

 stalked. Flowers in dense spikes or clover-like heads^ 

 stipules and bracts large and conspicuously striate. 

 Pods not divided between the seeds, and seeds without 

 strophiole. 



Species about fifteen, nearly all Indian. 

 Erect herb or under shrub, leaflets up to 3 inches. .... 



F. grahamiana. 

 Trailing herb, leaflets % inch. ..... F. procumbens. 



Flcmingia grahamiana Wight and Arnott ; Wight Herb, 

 Prop. !; RB.L ii 228, LXXXV 6. 



