XLVIII. r.E0UMIN()8,S. 361 



34. SHUTERIA, Wight & Arn. 



Climbing slender herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; stipules striate. 

 Leaflets stipellate. Flowers small, in axillary racemes, often twin or 

 fascicled along the rhachis ; bracts persistent, striate ; bracteoles small. 

 Calyx-tube gibbous ; teeth short, the '2 upper connate at the apex. 

 Corolla exserted ; standard obovate, narrowed at the base, not auricled ; 

 wings narrow, oblique, adhering to the keel ; keel shorter than the wings, 

 obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile : 

 ovules many; style incurved, filiform, beardless; stigma capitate. Pod 

 linear, 2-valved, obscurely septate within between the sseds. — Distrib. 

 Species 5, of which 4 are Indian, the other Tropical African. 



1. Shuteria vestita, Wight <^ Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 207. Herba- 

 ceous, twining ; stems woody, slender, hairy. Leaves pinnately 3-folio- 

 late ; petioles 1^-2| in. long, more or less hairy ; stipules ^ in. long, 

 lanceolate, acute. Leaflets membranous or subcoriaceous, l^-l^ by 

 |-1 in., the terminal rhoraboid-obovate, the lateral slightly smaller, 

 ovate-oblong or elliptic, all more or less hairy on both sides, rounded at 

 both ends, minutely apiculate ; stipels ^ in. long, linear-subulate. 

 Racemes dense, 1-4 in. long, 2 or 3 sometimes starting from the same 

 node, the lower flowers often twin ; pedicels short, densely hairy; bracts 

 rigid, ovate-lanceolate, hairy, persistent, about as long as the pedicels. 

 Calyx i in. long, very hairy outside ; teeth lanceolate-subulate, shorter 

 than the tube. Corolla k in. long, purplish-red. Pods I-I5 by |- in., 

 linear, hairy, slightlv recurved. Seeds 5-7, ellipsoid, compressed, 

 brownish-black. Fl.B. I. v. 2, p. 181 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 68; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 165 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 58 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 424.— Flowers : Oct. 



Ko\KAN : Stocks ! ; hills near Matheran, Kanitkar ! Deccan : Bowdhan near 

 Poona, Kanitkar ! ; hills near Poona, Woodrow ! ; Pal JMngles, Khandesh, Kanitkar ! 

 S. M. Country: Dharwar, Cooke \; between Pdrva Ghat and Talaveri, BaleelV.^ 

 Distrib. India (E. Himalayas, Khasia, Sikkim, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



35. DUMASIA, DC. 



Twining slender herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, stipulate. 

 Leaflets stipeUate. F'lowers solitary or twin along the rhachis of 

 axillary racemes ; bracts small, narrow ; bracteoles minute. Calyx-tube 

 cylindric, gibbous, with a very oblique subtruncate mouth ; teeth obsolete. 

 Corolla exserted ; standard obovate, erect, the margins slightly inflexed, 

 the claw auricled ; wings and keel adherent, with small blades and long 

 claws. Stamens diadelphous : anthers uniform. Ovary substipitate ; 

 ovules many ; style flattened above the middle, beardless ; stigma 

 capitate. Pod subsessile, linear, compressed, torulose, 2-valved, con- 

 tinuous \\ithiu. — Distrib. Tropical and Subtropical Asia ; species 3. 



1. Dumasia villosa, DC. Mem. Legum. (1825) p. 257, t, 44. 

 A twining herb ; stems slender, terete, more or less fulvous-hairy. 

 Leaves 3-foliolat^ ; petioles f-lg in. long, fulvous - hairy ; stipules 

 \ in. long, linear-lanceolate, hairy. Leaflets membranous, 1^-2^ by 

 l-lg in. (the terminal leaflets not much larger than the lateral 

 ones), ovate, subobtuse, apiculate, glabrous above, more or less hairy 

 beneath, the margins of the young leaves ciliate, base shortly cuneate. 



