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Dwarf, diffuse ; stems glabrous. Leaflets small, oblong, ovate or orbi- 

 cular, obtuse or subacute. Racemes short, dense ; bracts and calyx 

 glabrous. 



Western India, Gibson ex Prain (I.e.). Deccan : Woodrowl Gujarat: Rajkote 

 (Kathiawar), C. Macnaghten ex Prain (I.e.). 



7. Alysicarpus tetragonolobus, Edgew. in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 

 V. ^1 (1853) p. 16S). Procumbent, caespitose ; stems numerous, slender, 

 |-1 ft. long, marked with a line of hairs. Leaves 1-foliolate ; petioles 

 y^^— i- in. long ; stipules scarious, i-i in. long, lanceolate with a broad 

 base, acute, ciliate, striate. Leaflets |-1^ by i-| in., elliptic-oblong or 

 lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous above, hairy beneath, base 

 rounded or slightly cordate ; petiolules \evY short ; stipels minute, 

 caducous. Flowers in lax racemes 2-3 in. long, the lower flowers in 

 distant pairs along a slender rhachis, the upper approximated ; pedicels 

 -J—J^ in long, filiform ; bracts i in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 caducous. Calyx -^-4 in. long, deeply divided, puberulous outside ; 

 teeth lanceolate, acute, ciliate with long white hairs, imbricate in the 

 early fruiting stage, afterwards spreading. Pods |-^ in. long, monili- 

 form, furnished with a projecting ridge down the middle of each face 

 making the pod quadrangular, distinctly exserted ; joints 2-6, trans- 

 versely ribbed, glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 159 ; Edgew. Cat. Banda 

 PL p. 45 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 423. A. quad- 

 rangular Is, Edgew. MS. ex Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 159. — 

 Flowers : Aug. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! Deccan : Poona, Herb. Mus. Par., 393 ! and 498 .', Woodrow, 

 49!, Cooke \; Aluneduagar, Woodrow. S. M. Country: Badami, Coo/cel, Woodrowl 

 SiND : Sfocks, 1181 ! — Distrib. India (Plains of Bandelkhand). 



8. Alysicarpus pubescens, Laiv, in Wight, Icon. (1840) t. 250. 

 An erect herbaceous plant 3-4 ft. high ; stems and branches terete, softly 

 hairy. Leaves 1-foliolate ; petioles ^-^^ in. long, softly hairy ; stipules 

 reaching k in. long, linear-lanceolate, prolonged to a fine acicular point, 

 clothed with long white hairs. Leaflets linear-oblong or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, mucronate, slightly hairy or subglabrous above, clothed 

 beneath and on the nerves and margins with soft white hairs ; base 

 rounded, subacute or slightly cordate ; main nerves 3, starting from 

 the base, conspicuous ; petiolules very short : stipels minute, caducous. 

 Flowers sessile, in dense spikes 2-0 in. long ; rhachis plumose ; bracts 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, silky-\'illous outside. Calyx g in. long, 

 divided nearly to the base ; teeth narrowly lanceolate-subulate, densely 

 plumose, not imbricate. Corolla included or scarcely exserted. Pods 

 jV in. broad, moniliform, with a long mucro, included in the calyx ; 

 joints 3-4, globose, reticulate, the reticulations somewhat honeycombed. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 160 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 65 : Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 423.— Flowers : Sept.-Nov. 



A very common plant. Konkan : Stocks'. Deccan: Poona, Cuokc\, Woodrow !; 

 Ohattersinghi hill near 'Poona, Kanitkarl-. Kolapiir, Cooke\ S. M. Country : Bel- 

 ^a,\\\n, common, Dalcell cj' Gibson, Ritchie, 1771, Cooke '., Wight I K\nara: Dahelll 

 Gujarat : about Broach, Cooke '. — Distuib. Apparently endemie. 



9. Alysicarpus belgaumensis, Wight, Icon, (1840) t. 92. Erect, 

 1-2.^ ft. high ; stems stout, terete, hairy. Leaves 1- or the upper often 



