42 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Malay Peninsula ; Malacca, Griffith ! Maingay ! Hervey ! Distrib. 

 India ; Malay Archipelago ; Philippines. 



13. Crotalarla quinquefolia Linn. Sp. PI. 716. An erect annual 

 2-4 feet liigh with straight robust sulcate fastigiate sparingly silky 

 branches. Leaves digitate normally 5-foliolate, ■ at times 3-, 4-, or 

 even 6-7-foliolate, petioles 1-3 in. long, lenflets herbaceous, glabrous 

 above, thinly silky beneath, central largest 2-4 in. long, all linear or 

 occasionally narrowly oblanceolate obtuse ; stipules linear. Racemes 

 terminal, 6-8 in. long, laxly 8-20-fld, ; bracts linear as long as pedicels, 

 thinly silky, persistent ; lower pedicels as long as calyx, upper short. 

 Calyx subglabrous '5 in. long ; teeth lanceolate as long as campanulate 

 tube. Corolla 1 in. long, glabrous, yellow, white or rarely purplish. 

 Pod distinctly stalked subinflated, glabrous, l'5-2 in. long, '75 in. wide, 

 30-40-seeded. DC. Prodr. II, 135 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 279 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 5429; W. & A. Prodr. I, 194; Wight 111, t. 16; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 347 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 84. 0. heterophylla Linn. f. 

 Snppl. 323; DC. Prodr. II, 131. 



Malay Peninsula ; Kedah, TT^msfZer .' Singapore, Hullett ! Distrib. 

 India; Indo-China; Malay Archipelago ; Philippines. 



3. Flemingia Roxb. 

 Shrubs, rarely herbs, with leaves digitately 3-foliolate or simple, 

 gland-dotted below. Inflorescence various ; pedicels very short, not 

 bracteolate. Calyx-tube short ; teeth narrow, acuminate, the lowest 

 often the longest. Corolla little or not at all exserted ; petals equal 

 in length ; keel obtuse or slightly rostrate. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, beardless, 

 stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, small, usually two-seeded ; seeds 

 not strophiolate, the funicle centrical. Species about 25 ; 3 Tropical 

 African, the remainder Asiatic. 



Leaves 1-foliolate ; flowers in small cymes hidden by large 

 folded persistent bracts and arranged in racemes longer than 

 the leaves ... ... ... ... ... 1. F. strohilifera. 



Leaves 3-foHolate ; flowers in simple solitary or fascicled 

 axillary racemes shorter than the petioles, bracts small deci- 

 duons ... ... ... ... ... 2. F. eongesta. 



§ OsTRYODiUM Desv. Shrubs. Leaves simple. Flowers in small 

 cymes, each hidden by a large folded persistent bract, closely distichously 

 arranged in copious simple or slightly branched racemes, both in the 

 axils of the leaves and above them. 



1. Flemingia strobilifeka R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. IT, IV, 

 350. An erect shrub 5-10 feet high with slender terete branches vel- 

 vety towards their tips. Leaves 4 iu. long, petioles '5 in. long, adpressed 



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