Meiotis.~\ L. LEGDMINOS^:. (J. G. Baker.) 153 



Tropical Zone ; NILGHIRIS, Gardner, Schmidt, Wight. 



A perennial, with slender firm trailing csespitose stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves short- 

 petioled, membranous, 1 or 3-foliolate, the end leaflet the largest, orbicular or oblong, 

 obtuse, 35 in. long, a little hairy below. Flowers in copious oblong terminal capitate 

 racemes under 1 in. long; bracts ovate, scariose, finely pubescent ; pedicels short. 

 Calyx \ in ; teeth densely plumose. Pod as long as calyx.; 



42. ELEIOTIS, DC. 



An annual herb. Leaves usually 1-foliolate. Flowers in axillary racemes. 

 Calyx with a very short tube and 5 subequal setaceous teeth. Corolla mi- 

 nute ; standard "broad ; keel obtuse, adhering to the jviurs. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 1-ovuVd ; style short, uncinate or nearly 

 straight, thickened at the base, stigma capitate. Pod of a single dimi- 

 diate membranous veined joint, with a flattened traigh"; dorsal and rounded 

 ventral suture. A single endemic species. 



1. E. sororia, DC. Prodr. ii. 348; Wall. <Cat 5741; W.fyA. Prodr. 

 231. E. monophylla, DC. loc. cit. Hedysafuiu soro.TTMn, ZtVm. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 352. Hallia sororia, Willd. Sp. iii. 1170. Glycine niouophylla, Burm. FL 

 Ind. 161, t, 50, fig. 2. 



Plains of BUNDELKUND, WTCSTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. /& 



An annual, with slender trailing densely csespitose glabrous stems, 1-2 ft. long. 

 Leaves subglabrous, membranous, consisting usually of a single short- stalked stipellate 

 terminal leaflet, rounded or broader than long, emarginate, ^1 in. long, but occa- 

 sionally with a pair of minute lateral leaflets. Flowers in copious simple lax axillary 

 racemes ; pedicels spreading, downy, exceeding the calyx ; bracts minute, ovate, 

 scariose, deciduous. Pod $ in. long. 



43. PYCNOSPOHA, R. Br. 



A low shrub. Lcai-cs pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers minute, racemed, 

 Calyx deeply cleft, the upper teeth subconnate. Corolla much exserted ; 

 standard roundish ; keel obtuse, cohering to the wings. Stamens diadelphous ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style indexed, filiform ; stigma mi- 

 nute capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, 2-valved, 8-10-seeded, continuous within, not 

 jointed, but marked with transverse veins. A single species, combining the, 

 habit of Desmodium, with a pod like Crotalaria. 



J . P. hetiysaroides, R. Br. in Herb. Banks. P. nervosa, W. # A. 

 Pioi?r. 197; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl.75. Crotalaria? nervosa, Grah. in Wall. 

 Cat. ;3428. Indigofera uesmodioides, Benth. in Hohen. PI. Ind. Or. No. 303. 



Tropical zone ; KHASIA (3-5000 ft.), SILHET, TENASSERIM, WESTERN PENINSULA, 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. China, Philippines, N. Australia. 



A perennial herb, with slender densely csespitose trailing stems -2 ft. long. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate, obtuse, \-l^ in. long, stipellate, sub- 

 coriaceous, glabrous above, finely downy and reticulato-venose below. Flowers in lax 

 terminal racemes ; bracts deciduous, scariose, ovate-cuspidate ; pedicels downy, 23 

 times the calyx. Calyx ^ in. long or less. Pod f- in. long, finally black. 



44. FSEUDARTHRXA, W. & A. 



Habit of Desmodium, from which it only differs in pod. CWytf-teeth as long 

 as the tube, 2 upper subconnate. Corolla 2-3 times the calyx ; standard broad ; 

 keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many- 

 ovuled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod linear-oblong, compressed, mem- 



