392 XLYIII. LEGUMINOS-E. 



lanceolate, longer than the tube, the lowest the longest. Corolla } in. 

 long, greenish-])iiik with darker stripes. Pods ^-| in. long, oblong, 

 turgid, clothed with a greenish-grey tomentuni and covered with viscid 

 reddish glands. Seeds 2, round. Wight, Icon. t. 389 ; Prain, in Journ. 

 As. Soc.'Beng. v. 6G (1898) p. 441. 



Baker, in Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 229, makes this a variety of F. congesta, 

 a shrub reaching 6 ft. high. There is evidently some mistake as to the 

 plant which Mr. Baker took to be F. nana of Eoxburgh. The species 

 is very badly represented in Herb. Kew., but Eoxburgh has in his 

 ' Icones ' an excellent colored drawing of the plant which has been copied 

 by AVight (Icon. 1. c). 



A very rnre plant in the Bombay Presidency. Talbof n. 9G0 in Calcutta Herb. 

 (fide Prain) reports the plant from Dongi (N. Kanara). 



5. Flemingia congesta, lioxh. Ilort. Beng. (1814) p. 56. An erect 

 shrub 3-0 ft. high; young branches angular, sulcate, appressedly 

 pubescent. Leaves 3-folioIate; petioles 1^-3 in. long with angular 

 but not winged margins, pubescent. Leaflets 4-7 by 2-2^ in., sub- 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong, acute (the terminal cuneate, the lateral 

 obliquely rounded at the base), dark green, glabrous or nearly so 

 above, sparingly silky (especially on the nerves) beneath, strongly 3- 

 nerved from the base"; petiolules i-| in. long, densely fulvous-pubescent. 

 Plowers in dense axillary velvety congested racemes shorter than the 

 petioles, the racemes sometimes solitary in the higher, usually fasciculate 

 in the lower axils ; pedicels very short, hairy ; bracts lanceolate, | in. 

 long, densely velvety. Calyx | in. long, softly ])ilose, dotted with small 

 black glands ; tube distinct ; teeth linear, acute, ciliate, much exceeding 

 the tube, the lowest the longest. Corolla -,^; in. long ; standard ^i in. 

 broad, white streaked \\ith pink ; wings purplish. Pods ^-^ by } in., 

 oblong, turgid, apiculate, finely pubescent, not glandular. Seeds 2. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 223 (e.velnd. varieties) ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 75 ; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 390 : Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 87 (e.fchul. var.) ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 74 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 400. — Flowers : Nov.-Dec. A^'ebn. Dau- 

 ilaula. 



KoNKAN : Balzc/fl, S/ocksl; Wari jungles, i>rt/c^f//! 



YkTi. viridis, Prain, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 66 (1898) p. 440. 

 Eacemes more lax and slender, but always shorter than the petioles. 

 Petioles distinctly winged. Leaflets thinner and paler. Flemiwjia 

 semialata (sp.), AVall. Cat. 5746 u {not at all of Eoxb.). F. semialata, 

 var. viridis, Km/., in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 45, part 2 (1876) p. 261. 

 — Flow-ers : Sept.-Oct. 



I have followed Prain (L c.) as ro this variety. Prain has restored 

 F. semialata, Eoxb. (which Baker in Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 229, had made a 

 variety of F. congesta), to its pristine specific rank ; and as the original 

 ])lants from which Eoxburgh described his species were grown in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, from seed sent by Buchanan from Nipal, 

 Dr. Prain is in a position to know exactly what plant Eoxburgli meaut. 

 The racemes of F. semialata exceed the petioles, those of /''. congesta and 

 its variety (viridis) are shorter than them. 



Ko.xkan: Stocks'., Gihson ; Vingorhi, ]Voodrow, Cooke] Kanaka: very conunon in 



