Strongylodon.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 191 



few-ovuled, style filiform, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid. 

 JSeed-s as large as a bean, with a hiluin running more than half round. DISTRLB. 

 Species 3, Polynesian. 



1. S. ruber, Voqel ; Walp. Ann. iv. 559 ; A. Gray Bot. Amer. Explor. 

 Expedit., 446, t. 48 ; *Thioaites Ermm. 89. Rhynchosia lucida, DC. Prodr. ii. 

 387. 



CEYLON, near Kornegalle, Thwaites. DISTRIB. Polynesia. 



Stems rm, wide-twining, glabrous. Leaflets green, subconcolorous, glabrous, 

 membranous, the end one roundish with a point, 4-6 in. long. Racemes copious, ax- 

 illary, distinctly-peduncled, -1 ft. long ; pedicels geminate from the tumid nodes, 

 filiform, drooping, -1 in. Calyx glabrous. 55- in., clasped at the base by a pair of 

 short round deciduous bracteoles. Corolla bright red, 3-4 times the calyx. Pod ob- 

 long, 3 in. long, distinctly stalked,. 2-seeded. 



64. GRONA, Lour. 



Twining herbs, with stipellate 1-foliolate leaves, deciduous stipules and bracts. 

 Racemes with obscurely-swollen nodes. Calyx-tube canipanulate ; teeth elong- 

 ated, upper 2 shorter. Corolla distinctly exserted, its petals nearly equal in 

 length, both standard and wings spurred ; keel obtuse, nearly straight. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style long, 

 filiform, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, turgid, septate between the 

 seeds. DISTRIB. Another species reported from Cochin China. 



1. G. Grahami, Benth. PL Jungh. 233; flowers in very lax fascicled 

 racemes, bracteoles a quarter as long as the calyx. Glycine Grahanii, Wall. Cat 

 513. 



PROME, Wallick. 



A lax climber or trailer, the slender stems with a few adpressed hairs. Leaflet 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, subconcolorous, reticulato-venose, 3-6 in. long, acute, lower 

 -cordate-ovate, upper oblong-lanceolate; petiole ^-H in. Racemes 2-3 from each 

 node, 1-3 in. long, the flowers in pairs from the distant nodes. Calyx glabrescent, 

 'in ; teeth all exceeding tube, lower linear, upper lanceolate. Corolla ^ in. reddish. 



2. Cr. Dalzellii, Baker ; flowers in dense usually sessile heads, bracteoles 

 as long as the calyx. Galactia simplicifolia, Dalz. in Kew Journ. iii. 209 ; Dalz. 

 $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 69. 



Plains of COKCAN, Dalzell, Stocks. 



A herbaceous twiner, the slender stems with a few adpressed hairs. Leaflets mem- 

 branous, with a few adpressed hairs on both sides, green above, glaucous below, ovate, 

 acute, 2-4 in. long, lower cordate, upper rounded at the base; petiole f-l in. 

 Flowers 6-12, in copious dense cymes. Calyx in., clothed with dense ferruginous 

 silky hairs ; lower teeth lanceolate, upper deltoid. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod 

 linear, straight, hairy, 2-2 J in. long, 8-10-seeded. 

 \ 



' 3. G-. filicaulis, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Sena. xlii. 2, 232 ; flowers 

 axillary. 



PEGU, Kurz. 



Voluble, slender. Leaves broad cordate-ovate, obtuse, mucronate, 1-1 ^ in. broad, 

 pal mately nerved, thinly hirsute on both sides ; petiole - in. Flowers small, yel- 

 low, pedicellate, cirrhoso-pedunculate. Pod slender, linear, glabrous, 1 in. long, 

 5-6-seeded ; seeds shining, olive-green, mottled with black. Kurz, loc. cit. 



