388 XLYin. LEGUMINOS-l. 



"W. & A. Prodr. p. 237. JS^omismia capltata, W. & A. Prodr. p. 237 ; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 295. — Flowers : Sept.-Nov. 



Rare. S. M. Oountky: Batlami, Woodrow\, Cooke \; bills 8 miles north-east of 

 Belgauni, Bitchic, 612 ! — Distuiu. Throughout India. 



2. Rhynchosia cyanosperma, Benth. la Oliv. Fl. Trop. Africa, 

 V. 2 (IbTl) p. 218. A stout woody twiner ; stems and brandies densely 

 clothed with velvety fulvous or rufous pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate; 

 rhachis prolonged -]-| in. between the insertion of the lateral leaflets 

 and the stipels of the terminal one ; petioles 1-2-^- in. long, softly 

 rufous-hairy ; stipules \ in. long, ovate, acute. Leaflets 2-4| by 

 l^L—S.i in., rhomboid-ovate, acuminate (the lateral oblique), velvety- 

 pubescent on both sides, base I'ounded ; peliolules -\ in. long, hairy ; 

 stipels ^-;j; in. long, subulate, very hairy. Flowers in close softly 

 ])ubescent peduncled racemes longer than the leaves ; pedicels -j-| in. 

 long, softly downy ; bracts large, ovate, acute, velvety, caducous. Calyx 

 |-| in. long, densely grey-downy ; teeth 3 times as long as the tube, 

 linear, obtuse, l-^ in. broad. Corolla pale yellowish-\vhite ; standard 

 I by § in., emarginate. Pods | by \ in., deeply torulose, densely 

 velvety. Seeds 2, estrophiolate, subglobose, dark-blue, shining. . Fl. B. 

 I. V. 2, p. 222 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 84 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 73 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1897) p. 425. Cyanospermum 

 tomentositm, W. & A. Prodr. p. 260; Wight, 111. v. 1, p. 198, t. 81 

 (incorrectly numbered 84) ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 75. Cylista tomentosa, 

 Ko.Yb. Fl. Ind. V. 3, p. 319; Cor. PI. t. 221.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : evergreen forests of S. Konkan, Talhof. S. M. Country : Pnrva Ghi'it, 

 JJahclfl; Cliorla Ghat, Sfocksl ; Belgaum jungles. Bahcll 8f Gibson; Kanapur (near 

 Belgauni), ^/«c///e, 204 I Kasau.v : Hirdosi and Anniode (N. Kanara), Woodroio. — 

 DiSTniB. India (W. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



3. Rhynchosia minima, DC. Frodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 385. A 

 twining or trailing annual ; stems numerous, slender, much branched, 

 pubescent when young. Leaves 3-foliolate ; petioles ^-| in. long, more 

 or less pubescent, striate ; stipules \ in. long, linear-lanceolate. Leaflets 

 |-1 in. long, as broad as long (the terminal sometimes broader than 

 long), rhomboid-ovate or rhomboid-obovate, obtuse, apiculate, glabrous 

 above, pubescent on the veins and conspicuously dotted beneath, base 

 cuneate ; stipels sometimes present, and when so, minute, subulate. 

 Flowers in axillary G-12-flowered lax racemes usually exceeding the 

 leaves ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^-^ in. long, pubescent ; teeth 

 about twice as long as the tube, linear-subulate. Corolla yellow, l— iin. 

 long. Pods 4-f by \ in., somewhat compressed, turgid, slightly re- 

 curved, glabrescent. Seeds 2 (very rarely 1), compressed, J- by yV in., 

 black, estrophiolate. Fl. B. I. v. 2,"p. 223 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sincl PI. p". 49 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 84 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 425. Ithyncliosta mcdicaginca, DC. Prodr. v. 2, p. 386 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 74. — Flowers : Sept.-Jan. 



Konkan: Sfoc/isl, Dahclll, Capt. Gcburncl Deccan : widely, Woodruw ; Poona, 

 Coolre'., Woodrow\ Gujauat: vi\Ae\y,Wood.row. S.M. Country: Dharwar, 6'oo^"e ! ; 

 Padsliapur hills, 7?tV'7<ic, 1705! Sinu : Stocks. — Distrib. Throughout India ; Ceylon, 

 Tropics generally. Cape, United States. 



\K\i. I. laxijiora, Baker, in Hook. f. F). B. I. v. 2, p. 223. Stems 

 and branches glabrous. Petioles longer. Leaflets larger, sometimes 



