894 XLYIII, LEGUMINOSiE. 



hairy, the hairs often rising from large yellowish bulbous bases ; teeth 

 subequal, more than twice as long as the tube, linear-lanceolate, plumose. 

 Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, dull-piirple ; standard \ in. broad, 

 obovate-oblong, hairy on the back, auricled. Pods i in. long, thin, 

 obliquely ovoid or subglobose, pointed, glabrous, veined. Seed 1, 

 ellipsoid, quite filling the pod, dark-brown, smooth. Flemincjia pro- 

 cumhens, Wight, Icon. t. 987 {not of Eoxb.); Dalz. & Gibs. p. 75. 

 Flemingia vestita, var. nUr/heriensis, Benth. ex Baker, in El. B. 1. v. 2, 

 p. 230 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426.— Flowers : 

 Aug.-Oct. 



1 have restored this to the rank of a species accorded to it by Wight. 

 It is quite impossible to consider it a variety of F. procnmhena, Eoxb., 

 which, as Prain points out (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 66 [1898] p. 442), 

 is the same as F. vestita, Benth. Wight made a slip in naming the 

 plant F. procumhens (Icon. 987), when he had already figured F. pro- 

 cumhens, lloxb. in t. 408. He corrected the error, however, in a note 

 attached to a specimen in his Herbarium, which is now in Herb. Kew., 

 in which he named the plant F. neilylierrensis. 



Rare. Konkah: Stocks] Deccan : Phunda Ghat, i)a/^eW I — Distrib. Apparently 

 endemic. 



9. Flemingia tuberosa, Dalz. in Keio Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. 34. 

 Pei'ennial, prostrate ; root tuberous, 2 in. long, edible ; stems 2-3 ft. 

 long, copiously branched ; branches terete, glabrous or with a few 

 spreading hairs, faintly striate. Leaves 3-foliolate ; petioles j-l| in. 

 long, clothed with spreading hairs ; stipules i in. long, oblong, acute, 

 caducous. Leaflets 1-^-2 by |-yV ^^-i oblong-lanceolate, acute, sparsely 

 hairy above, more strongly so on the nerves beneath, not or obscurely 

 gland-dotted ; midrib very conspicuous on the underside. Flowers 

 in few-flowered lax axillary racemose cymes longer than the leaves, 

 the branches very slender : bracts and bracteoles rigid, ovate, acute. 

 C'olyx -1— g in. long, densely hairy; teeth subequal, longer than the 

 tube, linear, acute, strongly 3-nerved. Corolla lilac, slightly longer 

 than the calyx ; standard hairy on the back. Pods oblong, as long as 

 or slightly exceeding the calyx, glabrous, transversely reticulate towards 

 the apex! Seeds 1-2. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 230 ; Da'lz. & Gibs. p. 75 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426.— Flowers : Sept. 



KoNKAN : Stocks], Dalzelll, Law I ; Malwan, Dalzell 4' Gibson ; Dapoli, Nairiie. — 

 DisTuiB. Apparently endemic. 



55. DALBERGIA, Linn. f. 



Trees or shrubs often climbing. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate or 

 rarely 1-foliolate. Leaflets usually alternate, exstipeUate. Flowers 

 small, copious, in terminal or lateral panicles : bracts small sub- 

 persistent ; bracteoles usually minute. Calyx campanulate ; teeth 

 short, distinct, the lowest usually the longest. Corolla exserted ; 

 standard bi'oad ; wings oblong ; keel obtuse, its petals joined at the 

 tip. Stamens 9-10, all connate into a tube split down the upper side, or 

 the tube s})]it into 2 equal bundles ; anthers minute, basifixed, with the 

 cells back to back, dehiscing usually by an apical (rarely a longitudinal) 

 slit. Ovary stalked; ovules fe\\' ; style incurved, short; ^tigma small, 



