XLViii. i.KdUMrisos.t;. 303 



veined, base rounded; stipels minute, caducous. Flowers in axillary 

 lax racemes 6-9 in. long, in few-flowered fascicles along an appressedly 

 silky I'hachis ; pedicels very short ; bracts and bracteoles minute, sub- 

 ulate, caducous. Calyx i in. long, densely silky ; teeth deltoid, shorter 

 than the tube. Corolla ^ in. long, reddish ; standard silky on the back, 

 inconspicuously spurred at the base. Pods H by ^-5 in., linear, flat, 

 very slightly recurved, more or less appressedlv silky. Seeds 4-5. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 184 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 68 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

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



KoNKAN : stocks'.; Wari country, Dalj^elll Kanara : Yellapur, Ta/io/ ! — Dtstrib. 

 India (Khaaia). 



37. TERAMNUS, Sw. 



Twining slender herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; stipules small. 

 Leaflets stipellate. Flowers very small, in few-flowered fascicles in the 

 axils of the leaves, or in axillary racemes, the flowers twin or fascicled 

 along the rhachis ; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late ; the 2 upper teeth connate or distinct. Corolla little exserted ; 

 standard obovate, narrowed at the base, not spurred ; wings narrow, 

 adhering to the keel ; keel shorter than the wings, almost straight, 

 obtuse. Stamens monadelphous ; alternate anthers very small, abortive. 

 Ovary sessile ; ovules many ; style short, thick, beardless ; stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear, 2-valved, septate within between the seeds, 

 hooked with the persistent style at the tip. — Distbib. Tropical Asia, 

 Africa and America ; species 4. 



1. Teramnus labialis, Spreng. Syst. v. 3 (1826) p. 235. A widely 

 spreading twining herb ; stems slender, more or less appressedly hairy. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles i-1^ in. ; stipules g in. long, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acute, deciduous. Leaflets membranous or subcoriaceous, 1^2i by 

 |-1 in. (the terminal slightly the largest), ovate-oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, subacute, apiculate, glabrous above, slightly appressedly hairy 

 beneath, base rounded or acute ; stipels subulate, xV~TU" ^^' ^^^g- 

 Flowers in axillary few-flo\\ered lax racemes 2-6 in. long, solitary or 

 fascicled along a slender more or less hairy rhachis ; pedicels l in. long; 

 bracts yg i^- l<Ji^g» linear-lanceolate ; bracteoles -^-^ in. long, subulate. 

 Calyx -i— ^ in. long, silky ; teeth lanceolate, as long as the campanulate 

 tube. Corolla y^\ in. long, reddish. Pods 1|— 2 by -y^ in., narrowly 

 linear, straight or slightly incurved, hairy when young, nearly glabrous 

 when mature, with a short stout beak bent upwards so as to form nearly 

 a right angle with the pod. Seeds 8-12, oblong, truncate or slightly 

 rounded at the ends, smooth, dark brown. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 184 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 424; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2 

 p. 60. Glycine lahialis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 325 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 68 

 Wight, Icon. t. 168. Glycine warrecnsis, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot 

 v. 3 (1851) p. 210 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 68.— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. Yern 

 Rdn-udid. 



Very common throughout the Presidency. Konkan : Law !, Stocks !, Dalzell ! 

 Wari country, jD«/^eW^- Gibson; Bombay, Capt. Geburnel Dfxcan : widely, Woodrow 

 Bowdhan, Kanitkur I; Poona, Woodrow'.; Bhor, Bkival Gujarat: Surat, Kanitkar 

 S. M. Country : Castlerock, Cooke I ; Belgaum, Ritchie, 182 ! — Distrib. Throughout 

 India, Ceylon and the Tropics generally. Natal. 



