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obliquely ; blueish-green faintly puberulous above, densely grey-canescent 

 beneath 2-2-5 in. long, 175-2 in. wide ; petiole 1-5-4 in. long, puberu- 

 lous ; petiolules '15 in. long, puberulous ; stipels very minute cadu- 

 cous, stipules lanceolate '1 in. long caducous. Racemes 2-3 in. long 

 on peduncles 4-6 in. long, overtopping the leaves ; pedicels geminate 

 •2 in. long. Calyx grey-pubescent with reddish streaks, S in. long, 

 tube wide campanulate, lower tooth lanceolate as long as tube and 

 twice as long as lateral deltoid and connate upper pair. Corolla '5 in. 

 long, externally dark brown, within pale yellow ; keel beaked, standard 

 *6 in. wide, orbicular entire. Pod 25 in. long, '25 in. wide, linear, 

 pedicel abruptly recurved, closely grey-canescent ; 6-8 seeded. 



PERA.K ; in open grassy or bamboo jungles, at Dijong, Scortechini, 

 1841 ! Kunstler, 908 ! Ulu Bubong, Ktmstler, 10852 ! 



A species with somewhat the appearance of Bhynchosia hracteata but with 

 much more slender stems. It also resembles, but to a less degree, Atylosia mollis 

 Its pods, however, have no depressions between the seeds and this renders it neces- 

 sary to refer the plant to Dunbaria. 



6. Atylosia W. & A. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves 3-foliolate, sometimes 

 subdigitate often exstipellate, gland-dotted beneath. Flowers axillary 

 or racemed. Calyx teeth distinct, longer or shorter than the tube the 

 lowest the longest. Corolla more or less exserted, marcescent or cadu- 

 cous ; keel not beaked. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 sessile ; ovules 3 or more ; style filiform incurved glabrous, stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear or oblong, turgid, marked with horizontal or oblique 

 transverse lines between the seeds which have a conspicuous divided 

 strophiole. Species about 25 ; from India to Australia and Mauritius. 

 Petals marcescent, leaflets large pinna tely trifoliolate ... 1. A. crassa. 

 Petals deciduoas, leaflets small subdigitate ... ... 2. A. scarab seoides, 



§ Attlia. Petals marcescent, remaining till the pod developes. 



1. Atylosia crassa Prain. A twining species with firm slender 

 striate shortly-tomentose stems and branches. Leaves 3-6 in. long, 

 pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets subtrapezoid cuspidate-acuminate at apex 

 narrow from beyond the middle to a rounded base, the lateral pair 

 obliquely, dark green and rather densely puberulous especially on the 

 nerves above, densely greenish -brown pubescent and reticulately veined 

 beneath, 2-3 in. long, 1-75-2-25 in. wide; petiole l-5-2'5in. long, pubes- 

 cent ; petiolules -15 in. stipels subulate '1 in. long, pubescent, sub- 

 persistent, stipules minute caducous. Racemes 2-3 in. long, lax short- 

 peduncled, pedicels geminate •3-*5 in. long ; bracteoles large roundish 

 acute reddish -6 in. long, forming a conspicuous tuft before the racemes 

 expand. Calyx '4 in. finely grey-downy lowest tooth lanceolate as long 



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