230 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEJE (BAKER). [Frio, 



dard deep red, f in. broad, the keel pale. Pod f-f in. long;, f in. broad, 

 thickly clothed with long tawny silky hairs. 



Nile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant I 



This and its two neighbours resemble closely the common East Indian Flemingice in 

 general habit, but the central leaflet is stalked and the pod just that of Eriosema. 



18. E. speciosum, Welw. mss. An erect shrub 2-4 ft. high with 

 firm densely grey-downy branches. Stipules §-J in., ovate-lanceolate, 

 subpersistent. Petioles J— 1 in. ; leaflets 3, subcoriaceous, dull green, 

 glabrescent above, finely downy with raised veins below, end one 

 oblong-lanceolate acute reaching 3-4 in. long ; petiolule \-\ in. ; lateral 

 ones erecto-patent equal-sided. Flowers in close casually forked short- 

 stalked terminal racemes 3—6 in. long. Bracts 3-4 lines, lanceolate cus- 

 pidate, very silky. Pedicels very short. Calyx 3J-4 lines, finely silky, 

 teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube. Corolla §-§ in., yellow ; stan- 

 dard oblong-spathulate, f in. broad, keel violet. Pdd oblong, 6-7 lines 

 long, f in. broad, clothed with spreading tawny silky hairs. 



Iiower Guinea. Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 



Very Dear E. flemingioides, from which it differs mainly by its larger flowers and 

 narrower leaflets. 



72. FLEMINGIA, Roxb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 544. 



Calyx-teeth subequal or the lowest longer. Standard obovate or 

 orbicular, the base appendiculate with inflexed auricles ; wings obliquely 

 obovate or oblong, often adhering to the keel ; keel incurved or nearly 

 straight, obtuse or acute. Upper stamen free, the others connate ;' 

 anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, short, biovulate ; style filiform or 

 slightly incrassated above ; stigma small, terminal. Pod short, oblique, 

 turgid, two-valved, continuous within. — -Erect or prostrate shrubs. 



A moderately small genus, belonging principally to Tropical Asia. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers solitary 1. F.faginea. 



Flowers in short-stalked clusters 2. F. oblongifolia. 



Leaves digitately trifoliolate 3. F. rhodocarpa. 



1. F. faginea, Baker. An erect shrub with woody subterete chest- 

 nut-brown slender branches clothed upwards with short dense grey 

 pubescence. Stipules small, lanceolate, deciduous. Petioles J— f in. 

 long, firm, grey-pubescent ; leaves simple, rotundato- cordate, 2 in. 

 each way, bluntish, subcoriaceous, both sides finely grey-silky when 

 young. Flowers solitary, or casually in pairs from the axils of the leaves 

 on silky pedicels | in. long. Calyx J in. deep, finely grey-silky, the 

 teeth lanceolate, reaching half down. Corolla red, scarcely exceeding 

 the calyx. Pod oblique-oblong, turgid, finely villous. — Rhynchosia, 

 Guill. et Perr. PI. Seneg* 212, t. 52. 



Upper Guinea. Seuegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet I 



2. F. oblongifolia, Baker. An erect copiously branched shrub 

 4-5 ft. high with firm woody slender angular finely grey-pubescent 



