344 TLA'ITT. LKGUAms'OS.T:. 



1. Paeudarthria viscida, ^ylc/ht 4' Am. Pmdr. (1834) p. 209. 

 Perennial, diffuse, prostrate ; stems 2-4 i't. long, slender, more or less 

 clothed with soft whitish hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate ; petioles i-1 in. 

 long, densely hairy ; stipules ^V-i in. long, lanceolate-cuspidate, hairy. 

 Leaflets stipellate, the terminal If-Sg hy l|-2 in., rhomboid-ovate, the 

 lateral 1|-1| by |-1-^ in., obliqiiely ovate-oblong or subrhomboid, all 

 more or less hairy above, densely grey-silky beneath ; stipels filiform, 

 often -i- in. long. Flowers small, numerous, in distant fascicles along 

 the rhachis of terminal and axillary racemes or panicles ; peduncles 1-3 ; 

 pedicels filiform, spreading, much longer than the calyx ; bracts lanceo- 

 late-subulate, shorter than the pedicels. Calyx -^-^ in. long, hairy; teeth 

 as long as the tube, the 3 lower linear-subulate, the 2 upper shorter, 

 subconnato. Corolla -i in. long. Pods |— | by \-j%; in., linear-oblong, 

 flattened, clothed on the faces with fine hooked viscous hairs, densely 

 ciliate on the margins, one or both sutures often slightly indented between 

 the seeds. Seeds 4-6, subreniform, compressed, brownish-black. ]^'l. 

 B. I. V. 2, p. 154; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 74 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 41 ; 

 Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 423.— Flowers : Aug.- 

 Sept. 



KoNKAN : Sfoclsl; Y \ngorla, KaiiitArir'., Woodrow. Kanaka: Kala iiaddi, 7?/VfA«V', 

 1030! — DiSTRiB. India (tropical zone, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Timor. 



28. URARIA, Desv. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-t)-foliolate or the lower 

 rarely 1-foholate ; stipules free, acuminate, striate at the base. Leaflets 

 often large, stipellate. Flowers in terminal racemes ; bracts ovate or 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube very short ; the upper 

 teeth short, the 3 lower elongated. Corolla purple or yellow ; standard 

 orbicular or obovate, narrowed into a claw; wings falcate -oblong, 

 adhering to the keel ; keel slightly incurved, obtuse. Stamens dia- 

 delphous ; aTithers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked ; ovules 

 2-x ; style filiform, inflexed above ; stigma capitate, terminal. Pod of 

 2-6 small turgid 1-seeded joints folded on one another within the calyx. 

 Seeds orbicular or subglobose. — Disti^ib. Tropical Asia, Africa, and 

 Australia ; species 8. 



1. Uraria picta, Desv. Jonrn. Bot, v. 1 (1813) p. 123, t. 5, fig. 19. 

 A suffruticose sparingly branched perennial 3-6 ft. high ; stems stout, 

 reaching h in. in diam. at the base, finely downy with hooked hairs. 

 Leaves imparipinnate, 8-12 in. long (including the petiole) ; petioles 

 l|-2i in. long, striate, downy; stipules h in. long, triangular, long- 

 acnniinate, striate. Leaflets on the upper part of the stem 5-7 (rarely 9), 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, -1-8 by |-.| in., linear-oblong, acute, blotched with 

 white and glabrous above, finely reticulately veined and minutely pubes- 

 cent beneath, base rounded ; stipels subulate, y^^ in. long ; leaflets on the 

 lo^^ er part of the stem 1-3-foliolate, suborbicular or oblong. Flowers 

 in close fascicles along the rhachis of spicate cylindric racemes 6-12 in. 

 lontr, ^-| in. broad ; rhachis and pedicels downy with hooked hairs ; 

 pedicels -i— I in. long, curved upwards after flowering so that the pods 

 are in contact with the rhachis ; bracts large, scarious, striate, strongly 

 ciHate, the upper lanceolate-acuminate, the lower ovate-acuminate, com- 

 pletely concealing the buds, soon deciduous. Calyx i in. long ; teeth 



