90 LEGUMINOS.E. [Bunbafia . 



longer than the tube. Pod nearly straight, pointed, glabrous or slightly to- 

 mcntose, 6- to 8-seeded. 



Hongkong, Ilarland, Hance. Received also from Java, from Burmah, and from Silhet. 



19. ATYLOSIA, W. and Arn. 



Flowers and other characters of Cajamis and Dunbaria, except that there 

 are no callosities on the inside of the standard, the pod is marked with trans- 

 verse depressed lines between the seeds, and the strophiola of the latter is very 

 conspicuous. — Twining or rarely erect herbs or undershrubs, with the habit of 

 Dunbaria or Cajanus. 



A genus of about a dozen tropical Asiatic species. 



1. A. scarabaeoi&es, Bentli. in PI. Jungh. i. 242. A prostrate or twi- 

 ning herb, much branched, and often extending to several feet, softly tomen- 

 tose in all its parts. Leaflets 3, obovate or elliptical, obtuse, about 1 in. long, 

 3-nerved, wrinkled and soft. Peduncles short, axillary, bearing 1 to 5 flowers 

 about 5 lines long. Lobes of the calyx narrow, falcate; rather longer than the 

 tube, and nearly as long as the petals. Ovules in the ovary 6 to 8. Pod 

 oblong, about £ to 1 in. long, softly tomentose and hairy, containing usually 

 3 to 5 seeds, and marked between them by deep transverse lines and furrows. 



Abundant near the seacoast, Wilford ; also Wright. Common in India, from Ceylon and 

 the Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northward to the Himalaya, S. China, and the Phi- 

 lippines. 



20. RHYWCHOSIA, Lour. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, or by the union of the 2 upper ones 4-lobed. 

 Standard orbicular, usually with inflexed auricles at the base, but without cal- 

 losities. Wings and keel nearly of the same length. Upper stamen free from 

 the base. Ovary sessile or nearly so, with 2 or very rarely 1 ovule. Style 

 glabrous, usually thickened above the middle. Pod flattened, oblique or fal- 

 cate. Seeds 2 (rarely 1), round or slightly reniform, with a short or oblong 

 hilum parallel to the upper edge of the pod. — Herbs or undershrubs, usually 

 twining or prostrate, and more or less sprinkled with resinous dots. Leaflets 

 3, or rarely reduced to 1, usually without stipellaa. Peduncles axillary, race- 

 mose or rarely 1-flowered. Flowers usually yellow, or with a purple standard, 

 pedicellate, without bracteoles. 



A large genus, chiefly S. Asiatic and African, with a few American and Australian 



1. R. volubilis, Lour. ; BO. Prod. ii. .385. A slender herbaceous twiner, 

 more or less softly villous or pubescent. Leaflets 3, oval-rhomboid, the ter- 

 minal one broad, lf-2 in. long, the lateral ones oblique and usually smaller, 

 all obtuse and 3-nerved. Eacemes usually shorter than the leaves, and some- 

 times shorter than the petiole. Pedicels solitary or 2 together, 1 to 2 lines long. 

 Flowers yellow, small. Calyx-lobes with subulate points. Petals glabrous, the 

 keel narrow, ending in a narrow erect beak. Pod 6 or 7 lines long, 4 lines 

 broad, slightly contracted between the two seeds. 



Common in the island, climbing over shrubs and trees, Champion ; also Wright. Received 

 also from the adjacent continent, from Chusau and from Java. 



