340 XLVIII. LEGtMlNOSA. 



10. Smithia salsuginea, Uance, Jovrn. Bot. v. 7 (1869) p. 164. 

 An erect animal 1-1 4 ft. high ; stems reddish-brown, slender, terete, 

 glabrous or with very few scattered inconspicuous bristles ; branches 

 few, very slender, lerete. Leaves abruptly -pinnate ; rhachis |-| iu. 

 long, bristly and shortly bristle-pointed ; petioles g-^ in. long ; stipules 

 obloug-lanceolate, acute, prolonged below their insertion into auricles 

 which usually lie close to the stem or branch. Leaflets 2-4 pairs, 

 oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, not or rarely apiculate, glabrous on both 

 sides with occasionally a few small bristles on the margins ; petiolules 

 Y^—^-(j in. long. I'lowers in dichotoinously-branched lax few-flowered 

 corymbose panicles ; peduncles slender ; pedicels g-| in. long, filiform ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate ; bracleoles -g— rl in. long, ovate-oblong or lauceo- 

 late-oblong, acute. Calyx closely reticulately veined, becoming enlarged 

 in fruit, tlie upper lip somewhat more so tlian the lower ; upper lip 

 {in flower) i by g in., euneate oblong, deeply 2-lobed at the apex, 

 ciliate ; lower lip {in Jlower) | iu. long by ^ in. broad at its widest part, 

 broadly ovate, acute, mucronate, ciliate and ^\■ith a few bristles on the 

 back ; upper lip {in fruit) y'^g by g in. ; lo\^-er lip {in fruit) h by fV ^i^- 

 Corolla yellow, §-- /^ in. long. Pods 10-15-jointed ; joints orbicular, 

 papillose. Smithia dichotoma. L)alz. MS. ex Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. T. 

 V. 2, p. 150. 



As pointed out by Train (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 66 [1898] p. 379), 

 the name /S'. sahiujiaea was published by Hance in 1809, while the 

 name 8. dichotoma, though given to the plant by Dalzell many years 

 previously, was not published till 1876. Hence the name S. salsmjinea 

 must necessarily be adopted. 



Hance {I. c.) describes the leaves as odd-pinnate, which is evidently a 

 slip. His specimen n. 15113, collected by Sampson in 1868, is in 

 Herb. Kew. 



Rare. Konkan : Stocks I, Late I — Distkib. China. 



l4. -ffiSCHYNOMENE, Linn. 



Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, not twining. Leaves pinnate ; stipules 

 setaceous or lanceolate. Leaflets numerous, small, entire, exstipellate. 

 Flowers in axillary (rarely terminal) racemes ; bracts usually stipvdi- 

 form ; bracteoles appressed to the calyx. Calyx 2-lipped ; lips entire 

 or toothed. Corolla fugacious ; standard orbicular, shortly clawed ; 

 wings obliquely obovate or oblong, equalling the standard ; keel not 

 beaked. Stamens in 2 bundles of 5 each ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 stalked, 2- a-ovulate ; style incurved, not bearded ; stigma terminal. 

 Pod stalked, jointed ; joints 4-10, flattened or turgid in the middle, 

 1-seeded, easily separable. — Disteiu. Throughout the Tropics ; species 

 about 30. 



Stems woody ; calyx glabrous ; joints uf pod smooth 1. ^. indica. 



Stems pith-like; calyx bispid ; joints of pod ecbinulate 2. ^. aspera. 



1. .ffischynomene indica, /./«». /S^>. 7V. (1753) p. 713. A much- 

 branched annual luidtTshrub 1-3 ft. high. Stem slender, scarcely \ in, 

 in diam. at the base, glabrous, pale-green ; branches twiggy, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaves imparipinnatc : rhachis 14-3| in. long, studded with 

 minute glandular excrescences almost amounting to prickles ; stipules 



