336 XLVIII. LEGUMINOS.'E. 



racemes from the axils of the upper leaves ; peduncles ^ in. long, slender, 

 glabrous or with a few scattered bristles ; pedicels filiform, ascending ; 

 bracteoles scarious, -^i in. long, ovate, acute, bristle-pointed. Calyx 

 4-5 in. long, with a few scattered bristles, rigid; veins close, parallel, 

 simple; lips equal, entire, acute. Corolla yellow, | in. long. Pods 

 flattened ; joints 4-6, orbicular, margined, denselv papillose on the faces, 

 ri. B. I. V. 2, p. 148 ; Grab. Cat. p. 48 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 63 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 2, p. 37 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 422 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Eoon. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 255.— Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 

 Yern. KavJa. 



Common in Bombay towards tbo close of the rains, Graham. Konkan : Stocks !, 

 Law\ Deccan: Khandala, Coo/.e ! ; Matbernn, JFoorfrow. S. M. Country : Nagargali 

 near Dharwar, Coulce\; Belgauni, Cooke \—V)\sivm. Tbrougbout India; Andauums 

 and Nicobars, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Java, Oliina. 



Tbe leaves are used as 11 pot-berb, and cattle eat tlie plant greedil}-. 



Yah. JJava. General habit of S. sensitiva with stouter stems and larger 

 flowers. /S. /am (sp.), Dalz. MS. ex Prain, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 V. 06 (1898) p. 378; S. sensiiiva, \ai\ fore majore, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 Hook. f. & T. in Herb. Kew. 



Except the slightly larger flowers (about | in. long) there does not 

 seem any distinctive character to separate this from the type, certainly 

 none to raise it to the rank of a species. 



IvoNKAN : Stocks I, Law ! Kanaka : Talbot ex rrain 1. c. 



2. Smithia conferta, Sm. in Bees, Cijclop. v. 33 (1819) n. 2. 

 Annual, 2-4 ft. high ; stems not bristly; branches long, virgate, straggling, 

 smooth, with long interuodes below. Leaves small, nearly sessile, 

 abruptly-pinnate; rhachis \-^ in. long; stipules very large, scarious, 

 lanceolate, acute, with very long acuminate or lacerate auricles. Leaflets 

 subsessile, 2-8 pairs, those of the stem-leaves .|-| by ^ in., those of the 

 upper or floral leaves narrower, about Jg in. broad, all linear-oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, densely bristly on the margins and on the midrib 

 beneath. Flowers solitary or 2, in the axils of the upper leaves which 

 are crowded at the ends of the branches so as to form a congested head ; 

 pedicels very short, hairy ; bracteoles scarious, ^ in. long, elhptic-oblong, 

 acute, with a long bristle at the apex and a few long bristles at the back. 

 Calyx i-5 in, long, veins close, paralk'l ; lips equal, oblong, acute, with 

 a few long bristles at the apex and on the back. Corolla yellow, \-^^ in. 

 long. Pods 3-6-iointed ; joints small, turgid, i)apillose. Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 2, p. 37. S. gemimjlora, Koth, Nov. PI. Sp. (1821) p. 352; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 422. S. rjeminijlora, var. 

 conferta. Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. L v. 2, p. 149.— Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



The name S. conferta given by Smith is 2 years prior to the name 

 /S'. (jeminijlura given by liofh. 



Konkan: Slocksl; Malwan, Woodrow. S. IM. Coi Nxnv : Belgaum, lUiehie, 1034! 

 Kanaka: Kala naddi, Ritchie, 10:34 !—Di.stuib. TlirougliouL India; Ceylon, Java, 

 N. Australia. 



Yah. f/erninijlora. A somewhat more slender plant. Leaves and 

 calyx miich less hairy. Flowers in the heads much fewer, often reduced 

 to a single pair. 



Konkan: Stocks'., Cnpt. Gvhurnc\ 



