t^t PAPILIONACE.^. 



Shrubby, stem erect, finely striate; young parts 

 tomentose. Stipules ^ inch by % inch acute, very 

 closely striate, persistent. Petioles I inch with narrow 

 wing, when young closely erect against the stem. 

 Terminal leaflet 2 to 3/^ inches by I to 2^ inches, 

 obovate cuneate, with three main veins, the middle one 

 pinnately branched, the lateral one more closely so on 

 their insides than on the outsides, recalling the venation 

 of ZIZYPHUS ; lateral leaflets oblique, venation similar 

 but inside lateral vein absent or not well marked ; all 

 acute entire, equally and shortly stalked, sparingly 

 pubescent on the upper side, hairy on the veins on the 

 lower, and dotted with glands ; when in bud erect, folded 

 between the shaggy veins, then horizontal, later hanging 

 perpendicular from erect petioles, then rising as they 

 unfold and the petioles spread outwards. Spikes very 

 dense, oblong, I to 2 inches ; bracts 54 inch, flnely 

 striate, ciliate, acute. Calyx teeth hairy round the 

 edges, sprinkled with black glands. Corolla small, 

 not exserted. Pod short and stout, under J^ inch by 

 J4 inch, finely pubescent and covered with clammy 

 red glands. 



Pulneys : on the Kodaikanal downs, extremely common, 

 where in summer the young shoots are conspicuous above the 

 herbage, for their horizontal folded leaves. Flowers October 

 and November. Fyson 112 9, 2151. Bourne 45, 402. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor. Not elsewhere. 



Flcmingia procumbcns var nilgheriensis Wight 

 manuscript in Herh. Kew ; F.B.I. ii 230 LXXXV 10.* Stem 

 and branches many, 12 to 18 inches, spreading on the 

 ground, terete, clothed as also the leaf-stalks and calyx 

 with long spreading hairs and sprinkled with dark red 

 glands. Stipules Yz inch to Yz inch by 3/16 inch acute, 

 finely striate, hairy. Petioles Y inch to Y^ inch, leaf- 

 lets equally subsessile, rounded at the end, mucronate, 



