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4. Eriosema DG. 



Shrubs or herbs, mostly suberect, with l-3-fo1iolate leaves. Floioers 

 racemed or axillary. Calyx campanulate ; teeth 5, as long as the tube. 

 Corolla distinctly exserted ; limb of standard roundish, auiicled at the 

 base ; wings and slightly beaked keel shorter. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, glabrous, 

 stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, 1-2-seeded ; seeds oblique, the 

 funiculus attached to the extremity of a linear hilum. Species about 

 50, mostly Trop. African and American. 



Eriosema chinense Vogel. PL Meyen. 31. An erect undershrub 

 1-1"5 feet high, stems slender branching virgately usually near base, 

 densely pubescent one or more f i-om a small tuberous woody rootstock 

 1*5 in. long, *75 in. across. Leaves 1-2 in. long, •3-*4 in. across, 1-f olio- 

 late very sl.ort petioled, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 

 greenish with a few adpressed hairs above densely grey-tomentose 

 beneath, the veins rusty brown tomentose ; stipules linear scarious 

 2-nerved persistent "2 in. long, stipels minute. Flowers in axils of upper 

 leaves, solitary or geminate subsessile or on a common pedicel, some- 

 times '5 in. long jointed below flower, bracteoles obsolete. Calyx cam- 

 panulate densely pilose '2 in. long. Corolla yellow, drying black, "4 in. 

 long, standard orbicular hairy externally. Pod oblong "4 in. long, 

 pubescent with long spreading rufous hairs. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 II, 219. Crotalaria tuberosa Ham. in Don. Prodr. 241. RJiynchosia 

 virgata Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5503. E. Grahami Wall. Cat. 5504. 

 Pyrrotriclia tuberosa W. & A. Prodr. 238. 



Pekak ; Wray n. 3804 ! Malacca ; Griffith, Distrib. S.-E. Asia ; 

 N. Australia. 



5. DUNBARIA W. & A. 



Woody or herbaceous climbers. Leaves 3-foliolate, distinctly gland- 

 dotted beneath ; stipellae rarely present. Flowers racemose or axillary. 

 Calyx teeth narrow the lowest distinctly exceeding the others. Corolla 

 exserted, marcescent or caducous ; keel usually not beaked. Stamens 

 diadelphous anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled ; 

 style inflexed filiform beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, flat not 

 marked with depressed lines between the substrophiolate seeds. Species 

 about 12, Eastern Asiatic, Japanese and North Australian; only one 

 from our area. 



§ Rhtncolobium. Corolla caducous. 



DuNBARiA ScoRTECHiisii Prain. A slender creeper 10-20 feet long 

 with rigid subsulcate grey canescent stem and branches. Leaves 4-6 

 in. long, 3-foliolate ; leaflets subtrapezoid, cuspidate acuminate at apex 

 nai rowed from below the middle to a rounded base, the lateral pair 



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