160 L. LEGUMIXOS^:. (J. G. Baker.) [Alisy cat-pus. 



in., 3-4-jointed, marked with an acute angle down the face, glabrous, with as 

 deep plications as in A. rugosus. 



8. A. pubescens, Lam in IVight Ic. t. 250; pedicels 0, calyx densely 

 clothed with long white cottony hairs, joints of pod deeply reticulated. Dak. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 65. 



Plains of CONCAN and DECCAN. 



Stems ascending, l-l ft., clothed with short adpressed hairs. Leaves distant, 

 linear or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, hairy on the nerves below, strongly triplinerved. 

 Spikes close, 2-6 in. long, with a plumose rachis. Calyx f in. long ; teeth lanceolate- 

 setaceous, densely plumose, reaching down to the base. Pod 3-4-jointed, included in 

 the calyx, moniliform, glabrous; joints globose, under i n - thick, the veins 

 honeycombed. 



9. A. belg-aumensis, Wight Ic. t. 92 ; pedicels elongated finely pubes- 

 cent densely ciliated, pod included finely pubescent reticulato-venose. Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 65. 



Plains of CONCAN, Dalzell, Ritchie. 



Stems 1-2 ft., clothed with dense short pubescence. Leaves casually 3-foliate, usu- 

 ally simple ; leaflets oblong or lanceolate, 2-3 in, long, subcordate, clothed with ad- 

 pressed short hairs beneath. Racemes moderately close, reaching 6-9 in. long, 1^ 1 in. 

 broad ; pedicels curved, ascending, downy -f in. Calyx f-i in. ; teeth 5, lanceolate, 

 reaching down to the base. Pod 3-4-jointed, subcompressed, scarcely moniliform, 

 in.' broad, marked on the face with fine raised honeycomb veins. 



VAB. 1. racemosus ; dwarf, diffuse, leaflets obovate-oblong under 1 in. long, racemes 

 with much fewer more distant flowers, calyx smaller, pod ~ in. broad slightly ex- 

 serted. A. racemosus, Benth. in Hohen. PL Ind. Or. No. 212 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 

 t. 292. Nilghiris, Schmidt, Wight. Rolampally hills, Coimbatore, alt. 2500 ft., 

 Beddome. 



48. 1KECOFUS, Bennett. 



An annual herb. Leaves 1-foliolate. Flowers intense racemes. Calyx-tube 

 campanulate ; teeth lanceolate, the two upper connate. Standard broad ; keel 

 incurved, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, 

 2-ovuled ; style inflexed, stigma minute capitate. Pod of one small oblong 

 reticulato-venose joint on a long stalk thrust down by the twisting of the top of 

 the pedicel so as to approach the rachis. A single species. 



1. IK. nidulans, Bennett PL Jav. Ear. lot, t. .' ; Wulp. Rep. v. 524. 

 Uraria retrofracta, Wall. Cat. 6678. 



Hilly woods of BIRMA, MARTABAN and TENASSB&IM. DISTKIB. Malay isles. 



An erect annual, 1 ft. or more high, with numerous sloruler spreading naked 

 branches. Leaves simple ; leaflet broader than long, mom' ibrous, pale green, 



venose, truncate or faintly emarginate ; base subconlate ; petiole filiform . articulated 

 and minutely stipellate at the tip. Flowers in dense oblong pcduneled terminal heads 

 1 in. or less long; pedicels fascicled, | | in. long, finely ^'coding the seta- 



ceous bracts. Calyx and corolla very small. Pod with a stalk 31 times as long as 

 itself. 



49. OUGEXNXA, 



Tree. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowers in fascicled axillary racemes. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate; teeth small, upper 2 subconnato. Corolla much ex- 

 serted; standard broad; keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile, linear, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, stigma minut' 

 tate. Pod linear, flat, smooth, formed of 2-5 large more or le.-r- joints. 



A single endemic species. 





