842 XI.VIIl. LKCiLMlNOS.E. 



stigiua capitate, terminal. Pod of a single boat-sliaped membranous 

 joint, compressed, reticulate, indehiscent, cliannelled along the hack. 

 Seed oblong, subreniform. — Distuiu. India ; species 2. 



Leaves 1-foliolate ; calyx-teeth very short 1. E. sororia. 



Leaves 3-f()liolate ; calyx-teeth nearly equalling the tube 2. E. trifoliolata. 



1. Eleiotis sororia, DC. Mem. Lcf/uni. (1825) Mem. 7, p. 350 ; 

 Prodr. V. 2, p. 348. A prostrate annual ; stems densely caj.spitose, 

 trailing, 1-2-2 ^t. long, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate ; petioles 

 |-J in. long, slender, with a few scattered hairs and with a tuft of hairs 

 at tlie base ; siipules scarious, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, striate. 

 Leaflets often mottled with brown spots, reniform, retuse or rounded at 

 the apex, usually broader than long, f-lj by |-li in. (the lower leaflets 

 near the base of the stem often much smaller), glabrous above, with a 

 few scattered appressed hairs beneath, base cordate ; nerves and veins 

 conspicuous on the underside ; petiolules about -^ in. long, densely 

 hairy ; stipels 2 at the base of each petiolule, subulate. Flowers in lax 

 6-30-flowered a.\illary racemes ; peduncles filiform, hairy ; pedicels 

 filiform, hairy, usually in opposite pairs ; floral bracts broadly ovate, 

 acute, striate, ciliate. Calyx -^ in. long, truncate; teeth very short, 

 rounded, ciliate. Corolla jV in. long: standard emarginate. Ovary 

 pubescent, subsessile. Pods subsessile, ^ by ■!■ in., boat-shaped, pointed, 

 reticulatelv veined, glabrous when ripe. Seed -g- bv J^ in., dark-brown, 

 polished. ■ ri. B. I. V. 2, p. ]53 ; Wall. Cat. 5741 ; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 

 p. 231 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 40; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 423. E. monoj^hylla, DC. (I. c). Glycine monophi/llos, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 161, t. 50, fig. 2. Hcdysanim sororium, Linn. 

 Mautiss. p. 270. — Flowers : July-Aug. 



Sometimes there is present a very small pair of stipule-like leaflets 

 at the base of the petiole, above the true stipules. These were noticed 

 by LinnaBus (Z. c.) and were considered by DC. to be a character 

 of suflicient importance to found a species on. Wight & Arn., however, 

 declare (7. c.) that these leaflets are not constant on the same plant, but 

 that some stems, even from the same root, have them, others not. 



A very rare plant in the Bombay Presidency. It is abundant at Badami, a station 

 ou the S. M. Railway, where it has been found by Mr. Woodrow ! and myself. I 

 have not heard of it from any other locality in the Presidency. — Di.stiub. India 

 (plains of Bandelkhand and W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



2. Eleiotis trifoliolata, T. Cooke. Prostrate ; stems many, caespi- 

 tose, reaching 18 in. long, obscurely triquetrous, striate, glabrous. Leaves 

 3-foliolate ; petioles filiform, ^r-l in. long, glabrous ; stipules y\ in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, cuspidate, striate. Leaflets nearly equal, or the terminal 

 one a little longer, |-§ by |-| in., not broader than long, broadly 

 obovate, rounded, truncate or retuse at the apex, glabrous above, with a 

 few appressed hairs beneath, base narrowed (not cordate) ; nerves and 

 veins conspicuous on the underside ; stipels 2 beneath each leaflet, sub- 

 ulate. Flowers at first aggregated at the tops of the peduncles, elon- 

 gating in fruit in a lax few-flowered raceme ; peduncles hairy, axillary 

 or terminal, with 1 or 2 scarious bracts ou the naked portion ; pedicels 

 filiform ; floral bracts large, striate, ovate-orbicular, .shortly acuminate, 

 ciliate, each bract enclosing 2 flowers. Calyx J^ in. long ; teeth triangular, 

 almost as long as the tube. Corolla -i- in. long ; standard emarginate. 



