XLVIII. LEffU>IINOS.l\ 389 



roaching or even exceeding 2 in. long, acute at the apex, tlie upper and 

 lower halves subdeltoid. Racemes more lax, sometimes reaching in. 

 long. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 4j!6. R. laxi- 

 ilora (sp.), Camb. in Jacciuom. A^oy. Jiot. p. 44, t. 54. 



Deccax : Pooua, Woodrowl S. M. Country: Biulaini, JVoodrowl, Cooke I Stsn : 

 Piiran ! ; near Karachi, Stoch I 



Var. 2. Memnonia. Whole plant canescent w ith short white velvetv 

 persistent pubescence. R. Mnnnonia (sp.), DC. Prodr. v. 2, p. 38fj ; 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 224 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 2, p. (i2o ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426. R. jmlvendnita, Stocks, in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) p. 147 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 50.— Flowers : 

 Jan. 



Except the pubescence, w hich is conspicuous and persistent, I can 

 find, after a close exaniiuation of several specimens from 8ind, no 

 character to separate this as a distinct species from R. minima, of 

 wliich I have felt constrained to make it a variety. Mr. Baker, in 

 Fl. B. I. (7. c), remarks that the plant differs from R. minima in vesti- 

 ture only. 



A rare plant, confined, in tlie Bombay Preaidcnoj', to Sind. Sind: Slocks \; 

 Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, Stocks\ ; liills at tlie Hub near Karachi, Puran I ; 

 Karachi districts, Cooke ! — Disthtu. Arabia, Tropical and S. Africa. 



4. Rhynchosia bracteata, Benth. MS. ex Bal-ev, in Jfool-. f. Fl. 

 B. /. V. 2 (187G) p. 225. Sarmentose or twining; stems and branches 

 finely striate, clothed with velvety pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 petioles |-1^ in. long, grooved, pubescent ; stipules i in. long, ovate, 

 acuminate. Leaflets 1^-3 in. long, as broad as long (the terminal 

 rhomboid-orbicular, the lateral obliquely ovate), shortly acuminate, thinly 

 downy above, densely so beneath ; stipels 0. Flowers in axillary many- 

 flowered simple or branched peduncled racemes much longer than the 

 leaves : pedicels short : bracts j^-\ in. long, exceeding the pedicels, 

 ovate, acuminate, softly pubescent. Calyx \~^ in. long, softly downy ; 

 teeth triangular, the upper about equalling or slightly sliorter than the 

 tube, the lowest longer. Corolla h in. long, yellow; standard i-| in. 

 broad, finely pubescent on the back, without callosities at the base, 

 auricled. Pods 1-li by g in., turgid, mucrouate, narrowed at the base, 

 slightly recurved, minutely pubescent. Seeds estrophiolate, dark-brown. 

 R. mollissima, Dalz. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 13 (1873) p. 18G. Dolichos 

 bracteaius, Wall. Cat. 5554. 



A very rare plant. Deccax: Khandesh, banks of the Girnar, i)rt/^e/^ ! — Distrib. 

 India (upper Gangetic plain, Birma). 



The plant was first described by Dalzell (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) who named it 

 li, onollissima. Unfortunately there are two different plants named E. mollisstivia, one 

 in Tropical Africa and the other in Java, both of which were described much earlier 

 in point of time than Dalzell's plant. 



54. FLEMINGIA, Eoxb. 



Shrubs (rarely herbs) erect or rarely climbing. Leaves 1-foliolate or 

 digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules striate, usually caducous. Leaflets usually 

 with prominent veins and gland-dotted beneath (except F. tuberosa), 

 usually exstipellate. Inflorescence densely spicato-racemose, capitate, or 

 paniculate; bracts various; bracteoles usually 0. Calyx-tube short ; teeth 



