158 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) [Alysicarpus. 



Plain of BUNDELKIJND and WESTERN PENINSULA. 



Stems 1 ft. or less long, with many erecto-patent hairy branches. Leaves all simple ', 

 leaflet orbicular, obtuse, cordate, hairy on the veins below, %-!$ in. long and broad; 

 petiole ^-y in., hairy like the branches. Racemes short-peduncled, moderately close, 

 4-6-flowered ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx ~ in. long, the linear teeth 

 erecto-patent. Pod $-$ in. long, by in., distinctly pubescent, 3-5-jointed. 



3. A. vaginalis, DC. Prodr. ii. 353; stems glabrescent or with a little 

 adpressed down, calyx as long as the first joint, pod terete reticulato-venose not 

 moniliform. W. 8f A. Prodr. 233 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 64. Hedysarum. 

 vaginale, Linn. ; Roxb. Hort. Seng. 56 ; FL Ind. iii. 345. A. Rubibarna, Wall. 

 Cat. 5771, exparte. A. diversifolius, Wall. Cat. 5772. A. Harnieri, Schweinf. 

 Eel. Kotsch. 24, t. 19. 



HIMALAYAS to MALACCA and CEYLON, ascending to "4000 feet in the North-west 

 provinces. DISTRIB. Through tropics of .old world, Afghanistan, introduced in 

 America. 



Stems robust, ascending, 1-3 ft. long in the type. Leaflets glabrous, \-1 in. long, 

 cordate at the base, usually oblong, obtuse, about twice as long as broad, rarely lan- 

 ceolate, 3-6 times as long as broad; petiole ^-\ in. Racemes elongated, 6-12- 

 flowered, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx in., nearly glabrous : 

 teeth linear-setaceous, exceeding the tube. Pod ~-$ in. by ^ in., the joints half as 

 long again as broad, faintly pubescent, rugose, usually a little thickened at the end, 

 sometimes indistinctly moniliform. 



VAR. 1. nummularifolius ; dwarf er, leaflets smaller oblong or roundish obtuse, ra- 

 cemes more crowded. A. nummularifolius, DC. Prodr. ii. 353 ; Wall. Cat. 5767 ; W. 

 $ A. Prodr. 232 ; ~Dalz.$ Gibs. Bomb. FL 64. A. varius, Wall. Cat. 5768. Hedysa- 

 rum varium, Roth -Nov. Sp. 354. H. cylindricum, Pair. Diet. Suppl. v. 400. H. 

 nummularifolium, Linn. Sp. Plant. 1051. Hegetschweilera pulchella, Eegel in Bot. 

 Zeit. i. 47. As common and widely spread as the type. 



VAR. 2. heterophyllus ; leaflets lanceolate, simple and trifoliolate intermixed, ra- 

 cemes elongated. A. heterophyllus, Benth. MSS. A. trifoliatus, Stocks MSS. Plains 

 of Scinde, Dr. Stocks. 



VAR. 3. Stocksii ; stems clothed with fine spreading hairs, leaflets thinner than in 

 the 'type obovate oblong hairy beneath, racemes elongated. Plains of Concan, Stocks $ 

 Law. Intermediate between the type and A. rotundifolius. 



** JMacrocalycinae. Calyx much longer than the first joint of the pod, 

 its teeth imbricated in the fruiting stage. 



4. A. bupleurifolius, DC. Prodr. ii. 352; pedicels shltt, calyx ciliated 

 only, joints of pod neither veined nor rugose. Wall. Cat. 5761, excl. B $ _F; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 233 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. J<Y. 64. Hedysarum bupleurifo- 

 limn, Linn. Sp. PI. 1051 ; Roxb. Cor. PL t. 194;\J2or*. Seng. 56 ^ FL Ind. iii. 

 346. II. gramineum, Retz. ; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 646. A. ludens/'-JFa//. Cat. 

 5762, excl. S 8? F. 



HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and BIRMA, ascending to 4000. ft. in KUMAON.-W-DISTRIB. 

 Malay isles, China, Philippines, Mauritius, Polynesia. 



Stems 1-2 ft., slender, assending, glabrous. Leaflets glabrous, linear or lanceolate, 

 1-3 in. long, acute, rather rounded at the base, rarojy oblong, subobtuse. Racemes 

 3-6 in. long, the flowers in 10-20 distant pairs ; pedicels very short. Calyx \ 1% ad- 

 pressed to the pod, hairy at the edge only ; teeth twice as long as the furrowed funnel- 

 shaped tube. Pod stalked, f - in. long, ^ in. thick ; joints 4-6, glabrous, as long as 

 smooth, slightly moniliform. 



VAR. 1. gracilis ; leaves oblong-lanceolate obtuse 1-2 in. long, calyx not mo'r\ 

 than in. long, pod 1-2-jointed .included or little oxserted. A. gracilis, ' Edgew. in f 

 Jonrn. Linn. Soc. ix. 312; Cat. PL Band. 46. Bundelkund, Edgeworth. Western 

 Peninsula, Wight. ^ 



