212 L. LECUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) \_Psoplwcarpus. 



2. P. palustris, Desv. in Ann. So. Nat. ix. 420 ; leaflets ovate entire or 

 lobed, racoiii'!.' many-flowered, pedicels short, bracteoles as long as the calyx', pod 

 small glabrous. Dolichos suftultus, Grrah. in Wall. Cat. 5564. P. longe- 

 pedimciilatus, Hassk. PL Jav. Ear. 388. P. palmettoriun, Guill. $ Per. Fl. 

 Seney. 'I'l'l. Diesing-ia scandens, Endl. Atakt. 1, t. 1-2. 



Cultivated in the tropics of both hemispheres ; a native of Africa. 



Stems slender, glabrous, firmer than in the last. Stipules similar ; leaflets broad 

 ovate or roundish, 2-4 in. long, acute, sometimes with two distinct obtuse lobes in the 

 lower half. Racemes long-peduncled, -|- ft. long, dense upwards ; bracteoles oblong, 

 glabrous, quite enveloping the young calyx. Pod 24 in. long, ^ ^ in. broad, includ- 

 ing the wings, 4-8-seeded. 



We have what may prove a third spocies from ASSAM, Masters, with pubescent 

 stems and leaves, entire lanceolate subcoriaceous prominently- veined leaflets 4-5 in. 

 long, short sessile racemes, a straight square 6-8-seeded pod 2-2^- in. long, with much 

 less prominent wings than in the preceding, the faces densely clothed, with persistent 

 firm short spreading grey hairs. Flowers, stipules, and bracteoles unknown. 



79. ATYLOSIA, W. & A. 



Herbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves 3-foliolate, sometimes subdigitate, 

 often exstipellate, gland-dotted beneath. Flowers axillary or .racemed. Calyx 

 teeth distinct, longer or shorter than the tube, the lowest the longest. Corolla 

 more or less exserted, marcescent or caducous ; keel not beaked. Stamens dia- 

 delphous; anthers; uniform. Ovary sessile; ovules 3 or more; style filiform, 

 incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod linear or oblong, turgid, marked with 

 transverse lines between the seeds, which have a conspicuous divided strophiole. 

 DISTRIB. Species about 20, spread from India to Australia and Mauritius. 

 Differs from Cajanus mainly by its arillate seeds. 



STTBGKEN. 1. Atylia, Benth. Petals marcescent, remaining till the pod is 

 developed. 



* Erect. Flowers in sessile or stalked pairs. Pod not distinctly lineate be- 

 tween the seeds. 



1. A. Candollei, W. $ A. Prodr. 257 ; petiole short, leaflets obovate- 

 oblong or oblanceolate densely silky re ticulato- venose beneath, pairs of flowers 

 usually stalked, corolla large, pod 3-4-seeded densely silky. Wight Ic. t. 754. 

 A. major, W. <y A. Prodr. 257. Oollsea trinervia, DC. Mem. Leg. p. 247, t. 41 ; 

 Prodr. ii. 240 ; Wall. Cat. 5571. Odonia trinervia, Spreng. Syst. Suppl. 279. 

 Rhynchosia Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5500. 



NILGHIRIS and CEYLON, up to 4000 ft. 



An erect shrub, with rigid sulcate branches, densely clothed with grey or brownish 

 subpatent hairs. Stipules lanceolate, minute, silky, caducous ; petioles 5^ in. ; 

 leaflets very thick and coriaceous, almost digitate, 2-3 times as long as broad, 

 shortly pubescent above, the underside with the veins and veinlets in relief, densely 

 clothed with thick grey or brownish silky pubescence, usually obtuse, the end one 

 1-3 in. long. Peduncles rigid, erecto-patent, of the lower pairs of flowers 1-2 in. 

 long, of the upper often suppressed ; bracteoles oblong, caducous ; pedicels \-^ in. 

 Calyx -jj in., densely silky; lowest tooth linear, twice the tube, the others lanceo- 

 late. Corolla reddish, 1 in. long ; limb of standard oblong ; keel with a short obtuse 

 beak. Pod straight, oblong, 1-1^ in. by in., densely clothed with soft short spread- 

 ing grey or pale brown silky pubescence. 



2. A. geminiflora, Dalz. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 185 ; petiole produced, 



