Bhynclioaia LEGUMINOS^ 75 



beneath, 3-8(-12) cm. 1. llacemes with many brownish-yellow flowers, 

 5-15 cm. 1., sometimes branching. Calyx hirtellous, 3-4 mm. 1., lower 

 segment 4 mm. 1. Standard somewhat obovate-roundish, with purplish 

 veins, puberulous outside, and often with minute glandular dots, with 

 minute slightly inflexed auricle,s at the base, -8-1 cm. 1. (incl. claw, wedge- 

 shaped, 1*6 mm. 1.); wing oblong, shorter than the standard, with a 

 triangular acute auricle (claw 2 mm. 1.) ; keel subfalcate, almost semi- 

 elliptical, about equal to the wings, and twice as broad (claw 2*4 mm. 1.). 

 Pod puberulous, especially on the edges, at length glabrate, 2-seeded, 

 2-2*5 cm. 1., or sometimes 1-seeded, 1*5 cm. 1. Seeds ellipsoidal, black, 

 scarlet only round the hilum, or extending over half or the greater part of 

 the surface, about 6 mm. in diam., somewhat like those of Abrus preca- 

 torius, and the plant is therefore sometimes (though wrongly) called 

 " Wild Liquorice." 



[FLEMINGIA Roxb. • 



Erect undershrubs or shrubs, in species occurring in the 

 West Indies. Leaves digitately 1-3-foKolate ; leaflets with 

 prominent veins and glandular dots beneath. Inflorescence 

 various ; in F. strohilifera, flowers in small cymes, each cyme 

 hidden by a large folded persistent bract closely and distichously 

 arranged in axillary racemes ; in F. stricta, flowers in dense 

 subspicate axillary racemes, the bracts linear or lanceolate, 

 caducous. Calyx-tube short ; segments narrow, acuminate, the 

 lowest often the longest. Standard auricled at base. Upper- 

 most stamen free, the rest united. Stigma small, terminal. 

 Ovules 2. Pod short, swollen. 



Species about 22, natives of tropical Asia, Al'rica, and 

 Australia. 



Leaves 1-foliolate F. strohilifera. 



Leaves 3-foliolate F. stricta. 



1. F. stPObilifera B. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. iv. 350 

 (1812); leaves 1-foliolate; bracts, persistent, and broadly 

 cordate.— Wight Ic. t. 267; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 191 ; Bak. 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. ii. 227. Hedysarum foliis sioiplicibus 

 foliolis &c. L. Fl. Zeyl. 134, t. 3. H. strobiliferum L. Sp. PI. 

 746 (1753). Moghania strohilifera St. Hil. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 

 /. 61 (1813). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Wild Hops, 



Roadsides, a weed in pastures; Hopewell, St. Mary, McNab ! St. Mary, 

 Purdie 1 March ! J.P. 876, Morris 1 Dover Castle, 1800 ft., Eggers ! Hope 

 Grounds ; Grove, near Hope ; Stony Hill, 1000 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 

 6974, 10,070, 11,770; Bog Walk, Hitchcock; Port Antonio, Bothrock.— 

 East Indies, introduced in West Indies and Mauritius. 



Shrub to 5 ft. and more. Leaves elliptical, narrowing to the apex, 

 •5-2 dm. 1. ; petiole 1-2 cm. 1. Inflorescence 5-15 cm. 1. Bracts broader 

 than long, 1-2-2 -5 cm. 1. Calyx 5-6 mm. 1., pubescent. Standard 

 0*5 mm. 1. ; wings 5 mm. 1. ; keel not extending beyond the standard, but 

 curved upwards. Pod about 1 cm. 1. 



