43. TATILIONACBM. [ 4. Atylosu. 



4. Atylosia, W. §• A. 



Twining herbs or shrubs with leaves usually gland- dotted 

 beneath. Fls. yellow or reddish in axillary clusters or 

 racemes. Corolla more or less exsert, keel not rostrate. 

 Ovary sessile ; ovules 3-6 rarely more ; style filiform, glabrous 

 or pubescent not bearded, stigma capitate. Pod linear or 

 oblong, with depressed lines between the seeds, which have a 

 conspicuous 2-fid strophiole. 



1. A- crassa, Train. Bir rambara, K. ; Bir malhan, 8. 



A suffruticose climber with downy stems, gland- dotted 

 strongly-nerved leaves and moderate-sized yellow flowers in 

 pedicelled pairs on short axillary racemes or panicles. Buds 

 varnished. Pod 1-1^" by §" with oblique depressions between 

 the seeds. 



Not unfrequent in the damper Singbhtim valleys ; Manbhum ; Ghats 

 between ManbLum and.Ranchi ; Sirguja, Wood. FL. Jany.-Feby. 



Branches striate. Terminal leaflet usually rhomboid attaining 4" by 

 3f' ', sec. nerves 2-3 prs. above the 3-5-nerved base and with strong cross 

 nervules, brown pubescent. Petiole 1-4". Racemes' usually in panicles 

 shorter than the leaves 1-4 7 long with large deciduons concave oblong 

 parallel-nerved bracts \-'i'' long ; the leaves on long flowering shoots are 

 sometimes suppressed. Fls. £-1". Calyx f", teeth 4, j-£ths as long as 

 tube, the upper two combined into one obtuse or emarginate. Standard 

 and wings auricled. Ovary yellow glandular on sides with pubescent 

 margins. Style bent at a right angle and pubescent all round abova the 

 flection. Seeds 3-5. 



2. A- SCarabaeoides, Benth. Gaisani, K. ; Bir horec', S. 



A copiously branched slender twiner with small strongly- 

 nerved leaflets 1-1|" long, smallish yellow or reddish flowers, 

 the corolla not much exceeding the densely grey silky calyx 

 and small oblong hairy pods J- 1" long. 



On clay soil, very common, esp. in scrub jungle. Throughout the area. 

 Fls.,Fr. Aug. -Dec. 



Terminal leaflet elliptic or obovate-oblong, pubescent, base 3-nerved. 

 Peduncles 4-f* slender, few-flowered. Fls. &'• 



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