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sensitive odd-pinnate small linear leaflets. Flowers in sparse racemes. 



Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the lips faintly toothed. Corolla fugacious ; 



standard orbicular ; keel not beaked. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; 



anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, linear, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 



incurved, stigma terminal. Pod linear, with a stalk longer than the 



calyx, and 4-8 flattened 1-seeded separating joints. Species about 30, 



spread everywhere in the tropics. 



Stems woody, slender, much-branched ; calyx and corolla small 



glabrous; pods narrow, smooth ... ... ... 1. JE. indica. 



Stems pith-like, stout, little-branched ; calyx and large corolla 



hispid; pods broad, warted ... ... ... 2. jE. aspera. 



1. ^SCHTNOMENE INDICA Linn. Sp. PL 713. A slender, much branch- 

 ed annual undershrub, stems 1-3 feet high under '15 in. in diam. at base ; 

 everywhere glabrous, pale-green ; branches slender twiggy terete. 

 Leaf-rachis 2-3 in. long ; leaflets close, terminal and in 20-30 opposite 

 pairs, linear, obtuse, 1-nerved, '2 in. long ; stipules lanceolate, '3 in. 

 long, membranous, deciduous, with a large auricle. Racemes axillary 1-4- 

 fld. ; peduncles 1 in. and pedicels 3 in., usually viscid ; bracteoles small 

 subulate glandular. Calyx '2 in., glabrous, teeth unequal the two upper 

 subconnate, persistent, withering. Corolla pale-jellow, tinged with pink 

 or orange, '45 in. long, glabrous, fugacious, standard orbicular emargiuate. 

 Stigma capitate. Pod 1-1*5 in. long, straight or at times slightly 

 curved, upper suture even, lower indented between the 8-10 separating 

 smooth or faintly papillose joints •12-15 in. broad. DC. Prodr. II, 320 ; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 1, 274; Bak. in FJor. Brit. Ind. II, 151. ^, 

 pumila Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II, 1061; DC. Prodr. II, 321. ^.aspera 

 Wall. Cat. 5666 not of Linn. ^. diffusa Willd. Sp. PI. Ill, 1164 ; DC, 

 Prodr. II. 321; Wall. Cat. 5565. J^. viscidula Willd. Enum, 776. ^. 

 Boxhurghii Spreng. Syst. Ill, 322. Smithia aspera Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 66; Flor. Ind. Ill, 343. Hedysarum Neli-Tali Roxb. Hort. Beng. 57; 

 Flor. Ind. Ill, 365. 



Andamans ; Port Mouat, plentiful. Prov. Welle sley ; Ridley 8009 ! 

 DiSTRiB. Tropics generally. 



2. ^SCHYNOMBNE ASPERA Linn. Sp. PI. 713. A tall erect swamp- 

 shrub reaching 10-12 feet in height, stems 3 in. or more in diam., 

 externally glabrous, internally full of soft white pith ; branches few or 

 none. Leaf-rachis 3-6 in. long ; leaflets terminal and in 30-50 opposite 

 pairs, linear, obtuse, 1-nerved, '5 in. long ; stipules lanceolate '5 in. long, 

 auricled, deciduous. Racemes axillary corymbosely 2-4-fld. ; peduncles 

 1 in. and pedicels '4 in. clothed with spreading bristles ; bracteoles 

 small ovate deciduous. Calyx "4 in., hispidly hairy, unequally 5-tootlied, 

 the two upper teeth subconnate. Corolla '75 in. yellow, fugacious, 

 standard orbicular. Pod 2-2*5 in. long, -3 in. across, often indented on 



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