390 XLVIII. LEQUMINOSiE. 



SLibequal or the lowest the longest, free, usually falcate. Corolla slightly 

 exserted or included ; standard elliptic, obovate, or orbicular, auricled ; 

 wings obliquely obovate or oblong, usually adhering to the keel ; keel 

 straight or incurved, obtuse or acute. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary subsessile, short ; ovules 2 ; style filiform or slightly 

 thickened above ; stigma small, capitate. Pod small, oblique, turgid, 

 continuous within. Seeds thick, not strophiolate ; the funicle centric. 

 — DiSTBiB. Chiefly natives of Tropical Asia and Australia, a few in 

 Tropical Africa ; species about 26. 



Leaves 1-foliolate. 



Branches terete ; bracts acuminate, glabrescent ; corolla white. 1. F. strobilifera. 

 Branches angular ; bracts rounded or eniarginate, hirsute ; 



corolla rosy or purple 2. F. bracteata. 



Leaves 3-foliolale. 



Erect shrubs or iindorsbrubs. 



Flowers in panicles 3. F. lineata. 



Flowers in axillary racemes ; bracts small. 



A low undershrub 6-8 in. high, with woody subterranean 



stem 4. F.nana. 



Woody undershrubs with tall stems. 



Corolla exserted ; calyx with a distinct tube, the lowest 



tooth the longest 5. F. congesta. 



Corolla included ; calyx divided nearly to the base, 



the teeth subequal ^. F. Wallichii. 



Flowers in dense globose heads surrounded by large bracts. 7. F. involucrata. 

 Trailing herbs with tuberous roots. 



Inflorescence capitate, terminal 8. F. nilgiriensis. 



Inflorescence lax, axillary 9. F. fuherosa. 



1. Flemingia strobilifera, li. Br. in Ait. Hon, Kew. ed. 2, v. 4 

 (1812) p. 350. An erect much-branched shrub 4-10 ft. high ; branches 

 slender, terete, pubescent towards their tips. Leaves 1-foliolate ; 

 petioles J— 1 in. long, pubescent ; stipules scarious, i-|- in. long, hmceo- 

 late, caducous. Leaflets subcoriaceous, minutely gland-dotted, 3^-5^ 

 l)y ]^2 in., ovate-oblong, acute, green and glabrous or nearly so above, 

 paler and more or less silky -pubescent (especially ou the nerves) beneath, 

 base rounded or truncate ; main nerves 8-10 pairs, very conspicuous on 

 the lower side ; stipels 0. Flowers in axillary and terminal simple or 

 branched racemes 3-6 in. long, closely arranged along a slender pubes- 

 cent zig/ag rhachis ; bracts large, membranous, persistent, glabrescent, 

 broadly orbicular-ovate, shortly acuminate, |-1 in. long, usually broader 

 than long, cordate at the base, conspicuously nerved and reticulately 

 veined, stalked, each bract folded over and enclosing 2 or more small 

 flowers. Calyx \ in. long, pubescent ; teeth hnear, acute, veined, longer 

 than the tube. Corolla white, | in. long ; standard -f-^ in. broad, auricled. 

 Pods I" by j^ in., oblong, turgid, niucronate, densely pubescent, com- 

 pletely concealed by the bracts. Seeds 2 (rarely 1), dark-brown, 

 marbled. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 227 {exclud. vars.); Grab. Cat. p. 51; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 75; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 74; AVoodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 403. 

 — Flowers : Nov.-Jan. Vehn. Kdnphuti. 



Common in hilly parts of the Konkan, usually growing in patches. Konkan : 

 Stocks], Graham; Matheran, Cooke\, Woodrow\; Mahableshwar, Cooke \ — Distrib. 

 Tliroughout India; S.E. Asia, 



