Atylosia.~\ L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 213 



leaflets orbicular thinly hispid on both surfaces, flowers in stalked pairs, corolla 

 small, pod hispid 5-7-seeded. 



WESTERN INDIA, Dalzell. 



Branches suberect, flexuose, clo*-!,- ."; v.'ith spreading fulvous hairs. Petiole 3 in. ; 

 leaflets membranous, 3-nerved, pellucido-punctate, with scattered golden glands, 

 11-2^ in. long; stipules acuminate from a brond auricled base. Calyx tomentose ; 

 teeth "acuminate, twice as long as the tube. Corolla -1 in. long. Pod almost membran- 

 ous, rounded at both ends, 1-1^ i n - by ^ in., its hairs bulbous at the base. Ex Dalz. 

 loc. cit. 



3. A. lineata, W. $ A. Prodr. 258 ; petiole short, leaflets obovate-oblong 

 pilose beneath not reticulate-venose, pairs of flowers not pedimcled, corolla small 

 3 times the calyx, pod 2-3-seeded finely pilose. Cajanus lineatus, Grah. in 

 Wall Cat. 5578. Atylosia Lawii, Wight Ic. t. 93; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 74. 



Hills of the WESTERN PENINSULA. 



An erect shrub, with long straight sulcate branchlets, densely clothed with short 

 grey pubescence. Stipules minute, setaceous ; petiole -| in. ; leaflets subcoriaceous, 

 greenish and thinjy pilose above, densely shortly grey-downy below, triplinerved, 

 nearly digitate, obtuse, the end one f-ltj in. long. Pedicels as long, as the calyx. Calyx 

 %~ in., densely downy ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, the lowest as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla twice the calyx ; keel obtuse. Pod oblong, straight, ^-f in. by ~ in., thinly 

 clothed with fine spreading grey hairs. 



4. A. sericea, Benth. MSS. ; petiole short, leaflets oblanceolate silky on 

 both surfaces especially beneath, pairs of flowers not pedimcled, corolla small 3 

 times the calyx, pod small densely pilose 2-seeded. 



CONCAN, Stocks, Law, Ritchie. 



An erect shrub, with long straight terete branches, with many grooves, densely 

 clothed with fine short whitish subpatent silky hairs. Stipules setaceous, subpersis- 

 tent, \~^ in. ; petiole ^-1 in. ; leaflets flexible, moderately thick, subdigitate, 6-8 

 times as long as broad, subacute, triplinerved, persistently grey-silky, 1-2 in. long. 

 Pedicels very short. Calyx in., silvery ; teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla f in., red ; keel with a short obtuse beak. Pod oblong, | in. long, densely softly 

 persistently grey-downy. 



** Twiners with flowers in lax peduncled racemes and distinctly Uneate pods. 



5. A. mollis, Benth. PL Jungh. 243 : branches and leaves beneath shortly 

 densely grey-downy, stipules minute caducous, end-leaflet short-stalked, pod poi- 

 sistently grey-canescent. Collsea mollis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5574. 0. cinc- 

 rascens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5575. Dolichos reticulatus, Ham. in Wall. Cat, 

 5552. D. crassus, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5553. D. blandus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 

 5568. Dunbaria Horsfieldii, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 179. Atylosia glandulosa, 

 Dalz. in Journ. Linn. Sue. 13, 185. Cajanus glaudulosus, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flora, 73. 



Himalayas, from G-AR-WHAL and KUMAON to NIPAL, ascending to 5-6000 ft. CON- 

 CAN, Stocks, Dalzell. AVA, Wallich. PEGU, McClelland. DISTRIB. Malay and Phi- 

 lippine isles. 



Branches firm, slender, terete, glabrescent. Petioles 1-2 in. ; leaflets coriaceous, 

 shortly pilose, greenish above, densely persistently grey-downy beneath, finally reticu- 

 lato-venose, distinctly stipellate, the end one 2-4 in. long, roundish-obovate, cuspidate, 

 spathulately narrowed to a rounded base. Racemes 2-3 in. long, lax, short-peduncled ; 

 pedicels geminate, -| in. ; bracteoles large, roundish, reddish, forming a conspicuous 

 tuft before the racemes expand. Calyk f in., finely grey-downy ; lowest tooth lan- 

 ceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod straight, 1-2 in. 



