152 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [JEsclmjnomene. 



rigid, gland-ciliated. Calyx under in. long. Corolla fugacious, twice the calyx. Pod 

 1-1^ in. long, straight or rather curved ; upper suture straight, lower more or less dis- 

 tinctly indented ; joints 6-10, - in. "broad, smooth or finally papillose on the face. 



2. 1C. aspera, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 320; stems robust simple or little- 

 branched, peduncles calyx and large corolla hispid. W. $ A. Prodr. 219 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 299. zE. indica r Wall. Cat. 5667, non Linn. Iledysarum lagena- 

 riimi, J&U-&. Hort. Seng. o7 ^Fl. Ind. iii. 3(J<3. JE. indica. 8 aspera, Hassk. PL 

 Jav. Ear. 340. JE. traclry'lobu, Miq. Flor. Ind. Sat. i. 270. 



Tropical Zone ; BENGAL and SILIIET to MALACCA and CEYLON. DISTKIB. Malay 

 isles, Tropical Africa. , 



A tall erect swamp species, with stout glabrous main stems, full of white pith. Sti- 

 pules linear or lanceolate, attricled, deciduous ; leaf-rachis 3-6 in. long ; leaflets 

 61-101, linear, obtuse, I-nerved. Racemes corymbose, 2-4-flowered ; pedicels and 

 peduncles clothed with spreading bristles. Calyx ^ in., with a pair of round bracteoles. 

 Corolla twice the .calpc. Pod 2-2% in. by ^ in. ; joints 3-6, smooth or echinate on the 

 faces over the seeds. . ' 



IE. SUKATTENSIS, W. if A. JPrqdr. 2*19, is altogether doubtful, the description being 

 probably taken in part from Scsbania aculcata. 



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40. OH2V20CARFUIVX, Beauv. 



Shrubs. Leaves with odd-pinnate exstipellate leaflets and persistent striated 

 stipules and bracts. Flowers in lax racemes, t'a/y^-tube carnpanulate ; 2 upper 

 teeth deltoid ; 3 lower lanceolate. Standard broad ; keel much incurved, not at 

 all beaked. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each; anthers 'uniform. Omry linear, 

 few-ovuled ; style filiform, inflexed, stigma minute terminal. Pod of a few inde- 

 hiscent turgid linear or oblong joints, the lower, seedless, the faces rugose, naked 

 or muricated with weak gland-tipped prickles. DISTEIB. Species 6, spread all 

 round the world in the tropics. 



1. O. sennoides, DC. Prodr. ii. 315; Wall. Cat. 5658 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 216 ; Wt. Ic. t. 297. 0. coronilloides, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 279. Hedysarum 

 sennoides, Willd. ; Roxb. Hort. Seng. 57 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 364. 



Plains of the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Siam, Philippines, Poly- 

 nesia, TrOp. Africa. 



A low shrub, with terete slender branches, the branchlets and leaf-rachis viscid. 

 Leaflets 9-17, alternate, oblong, obtuse, membranous, deciduous. Flowers 2-6, in 

 copious short-peduncled axillary corymbose racemes ; bracts spreading, minute, deltoid ; 

 pedicels viscid, as long as calyx. Calyx \ in. Corolla yellow, much exserted. Pod with 

 2-4 joints, linear or oblong, ~-l in. long, horizontally plicate, smooth or muricated. 



41. LEPTODESIVIIA, Benth.' 



Diffuse perennial herbs. Leaves simple or pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate. 

 jBracts large, imbricated. Floivers small, crowded in dense terminal racemose 

 heads. Calyx with a very short tube, and 5 subequal setaceous teeth. Corolla 

 minute, included ; standard broad ; keel obtuse.. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary sessile, 1-ovuled ; style long, filiform, incurved, stigma capitate. 

 Pod small, oblong, membranous, flattened, I-seeded, opening widely along the 

 ventral suture. DISTKIB. Two species, the other a plant of Madagascar. 



1. Ei. cong esta, Benth. MSS. Nicolsonia congesta, Wight Ic. t. 1056. 

 Desmodiiun congestimi, JBenth. PI. Jungh. 222, non W. & A. 



