XLYIII. LEGUMINOB.'E. 391 



2. Flemingia bracteata, Wi(/ht, fcon. (1840) t. 268. An erect 

 shrub 4-10 It. liigli ; branches more or less angular, softly downy when 

 young. Leaves 1-foliolate ; petioles J— •[ in. long, downy; stipules 

 ^— I in. long, linear, bristle-pointed, subjjersistent. Leaflets 3-5^ by 

 11^-21 in., ovate, acute, glabrous above, slightly hairy (especially on the 

 nerves) beneath, base rounded or coz-date ; main nerves 4-0 pairs ; 

 stipels 0. Flowers in axillary and terminal branched racemes, closely 

 arranged along a pubescent and nearly straight rhachis ; bracts mem- 

 branous, I in. long, usually broader than long, rounded or emarginate 

 at the apex, cordate at the base, stalked (with linear subulate stipules 

 g in. long below the stalks), softly hirsute and ciliate with long hairs, 

 reticulately veined, the flowers hidden within the folded bracts. Calyx 

 ^ in. long, hirsute ; teeth triangular, acute, longer than the tube. 

 Corolla 1 in. long, purple or rosy. Pods ^-L in, long, oblong, turgid, 

 rounded and mucronate at the apex, entirely concealed by the persistent 

 bracts. Seeds 2 (I'arely 1). Prain, in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. v. 66 

 (1898) p. 437. F. strohUifera, var. hracteata, Baker, in PI. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 227. Hedysannn bracteahim, lioxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3, p. 351. 



KoNKAN : Ritchie. S. M. Country : Castlerock, Cooke I, BJdva '. Kanaka : Talbot 

 (Me Prain). — Distrib. India (Oiide, Behar, 0. India, Sikkim, Einua, W. Peninsula). 



3. Flemingia lineata, lloxh. Ilort. Bene/. (1814) p. 56. A small 

 erect branched shrub ; young bi*anches angular, appressedly pubescent. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate ; petioles |-1 in. long, quadrangular, not winged, 

 pubescent ; stipules conspicuous, | in. long, linear-oblong, cuspidate, 

 subpersisteut. Leaflets 1-^2 by '^-'^ in., rigidly subcoriaceous, plicate, 



• obovate or oblanceolate, cuneate (the lateral smaller than the terminal 

 and slightly oblique), rounded or subacute, nearly glabrovis above, silky- 

 hairy (especially on the very oblique conspicuous nerves), closely reti- 

 culately veined and inconspicuously dotted with yellowish glands beneath ; 

 stipels 0. Flowers in axillary peduncled spreading lax panicles ; rhachis 

 slender, pubescent ; pedicels short ; bracts linear, acute, caducous. 

 Calyx i-| in. long, softly downy ; teeth subequal, linear-lanceolate, a 

 little longer than the tube. Corolla ^\^ in. long. Pods |— |- by j\ in., 

 oblong, rounded at both ends, minutely apiculate, glandular (sometimes 

 viscidly so), pubescent. Seeds 2, orbicular-oblong, black. Fl. B. 1. 

 v. 2, p. 228 ; Grab. Cat. p. 51 ; Wight, Icon. t. 327 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl, 

 v, 2, p. 87. — Flowers : Dec. -Jan. 



Konkan: Stocks I Deccan: between Nasik and lga,t])Vivi, Edc/ewori ft \ Q-i'jakat: 

 common, Dr. Lush ex Graham; Panch Mahals, Dalzell\ — Distrib. Throughout 

 India ; Malay Islands, N. Australia. 



4. Flemingia nana, Roxh. Hort. Ben;/. (1814) p. 56; Fl. Ind. v, 3, 

 p. 339, Sufi:'ruticose, 0-8 in, high : stem scarcely any, about 1 in, above 

 ground, woody, perennial ; branches few, short, subherbaceous, Lea\es 

 3-foliolate; petioles 1-3 in. long, winged; stipules \-^ in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. Leaflets 1-3 by j-l| in. (the terminal obovate, 

 narrowed, the lateral obliquely elliptic, rounded at the base), acute at 

 the apex, more or less downy, 3-uerved ; petiolules short; stipels 0. 

 Flowers numerous, in axillary elongate slender racemes 3-4 in. long, 

 which are solitary or fasciculate ; pedicels i-i in. long, slender, 

 pubescent and glandular ; bracts ^ in. long, lanceolate, caducous. 

 Calyx ^ in. long, pubescent and covered with ferruginous glands; teeth 



