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pnberulous ; leaflets 1, subcoriaceous green glabrescent above tbinly 

 silky on the nerves beneath, ovate-acute, base widely rounded or truncate 

 3*5 in. long, 2 in. wide, lateral nerves 10-12 pairs ; stipels obsolete, 

 stipules scarious lanceolate '3 in. long. Inflorescence in terminal racemes 

 or thyrses 3-6 in. long, .the slender zigzag rachis rusty-pubescent ; 

 bracts erecfco-patent, short-petioled, deeply cordate 1 in. long, 1-25 in. 

 wide, membranous, apex shortly cuspidate in all except the very upper- 

 most. Calyx "25 in. finely pilose ; teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube. 

 Corolla yellowish or greenish-wbite '35 in. long. Fod oblong tursrid '35 

 in. long, finely downy ; 2-seeded. DC. Piodr. II, 351 ; Wall. Cat. 5753 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 243 ; Wight Ic. t. 267 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 161 ; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 227 (excluding both varieties). F. ahrupta 

 Wall. Cat. 5755. Hedysarum strohiliferum Linn. Sp. PI. 746 ; Roxb. 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 350. Zornia strohilifera Per. Synops. II, 319. 



In all the provinces, common. Distrib. Throughout S.-E. Asia. 



§ 2. Flemingiastrum DC. Erect shrubs. Leaves digitately 3-folio- 

 late. Flowers in dense subspicate axillary racemes ; bracts linear or 

 lanceolate, caducous. 



2. Flemingia congesta Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56. An erect woody 

 shrub 4-6 feet high with slender triangular sulcate branches silky to- 

 wards their tips. Leaves 6-9 in. long, petioles 2*5-3"5 in. long, adpressed 

 puberulous margins angled but hardly winged ; leaflets 3, subcoriaceous, 

 ovate-acute, terminal cuneate lateral obliquely round at base, green, 

 puberulous above thinly rusty silky especially on the nerves beneath, 3-5 

 in. long, l'5-3 in, wide, lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, the lowest pair long, 

 very oblique, arising at junction of midrib and petiolule, stipels obsolete, 

 petiolules '25 in. long, stipules scarious externally velvety, early cadu- 

 cous '4 in. long. Inflorescence in dense axillary racemes sometimes soli- 

 tary in the higher, usually fasciculate in the lower axils, 2 in. long, 

 always shorter than petioles ; bracts lanceolate "25 in. long or less, 

 silky externally less rigid than the stipules and like them deciduous. 

 Calyx '35 in. long, densely silky externally, teeth linear-lanceolate the 

 lowest exceeding the others. Corolla wings purple standard white 

 striped with pink '4 in. long. Fod oblong '5 in. long, '25 in. wide, closely 

 shortly tomentose ; seeds 2. Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 340; DC. Prodr, II, 

 351 ; W. & A. Prodr. 241 ; Wight, Ic. t. 390 ; Wall. Cat. 5747 ; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 164 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 288, excluding all the 

 varieties. Crotalaria macrophylla Willd. Sp. PI. Ill, 982. Ehynchosia 

 crotalarioides DC. Prodr. II, 387. 



Penang; Wallich 5747 F! Pulo Boeting, Curtis 1926 ! Malacca ; 

 Griffith ! Pangkore, Goodenough ! Perak ; Larut, Scortechini 134 ! 

 Kampong Kota, Wray 3316 ! Distrib. India, Indo-China, Java. 



All the specimens quoted belong to Roxburgh's true Flemingia congesta. 



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