220 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) [Rhynchosia. 



6000 ft. CEYLON, Walker. MALACCA, Griffith. PEGU, McClelland. 

 China, Philippines, N. Australia. 



Root a small woody perennial tuber. Stems 1-2 ft., slender, erect, woody, little 

 branched, densely pubescent. Stipules linear, persistent; leaflets short-petioled, 

 simple, linear-ligulate, 12 in. long, subcoriaceous, greenish with a few adpressed 

 hairs above, glaucous, densely grey-canescent, brown on the ribs beneath. Flowers 1-^2, 

 short-peduncled, in leaf-axils. Calyx | in., densely pilose. Corolla twice the 

 calyx, yellowish, purple-black when dried. Pod oblong, f in., densely pubescent. 



84. RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. 



Twining or erect herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, gland-dotted 

 beneath ; stipellss present or absent ; stipules and bracts caducous. Flowers 

 axillary or racemed. Calyx-tube short ; teeth equalling or often much 'exceeding 

 it, usually not accrescent, slightly so in Phyllomatia, the upper often more or 

 less connate. Corolla included or exserted ; keel incurved, not distinctly 

 beaked. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, usually 

 2-ovuled ; style long, filiform, much incurved, stigma capitate. Pod round or 

 oblong, flattish or turgid, usually continuous between the seeds, the hilmn 

 parallel with the sutures and funiculus centrical upon it. DISTRIB. Species 

 about 80, spread everywhere in the tropics and reaching the Cape and United 

 States. 



SUBGI:::. 1. 3*Iiyllomatia, W. 8f A. Calyx-teeth broad and marcescent, 

 but not so excessively enlarged as in Cylist.a, in which Graham placed the species. 

 Seeds with a large grooved white waxy arillus, as in Atylosia. 



1. St.'ZTOfesoens, DC. Prodr. ii. 387 ; pedicels distinct solitary distant, 

 calyx-lobes narrowed to an obtuse point, pod globose one-seeded. W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 239; Hook. Ic. PL t. 189. Glycine rufescens, Willd. Nov. Act. 

 Ber. 1803, p. 222. G. pondicheriensis, Spreng. Syst. iii. 196. Oylista suaveo- 

 lens, Orah. in Wall. Cat. 5587. Cyanospermum javanicum, Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. i. 167. Lespedeza indica, Spreng. Syst. iii. 202 ; W. Sc A. Prodr. 231. 

 Hallia trifoliata, Roth Nov. Sp. 352. Flemiugia Rothiana, DC. Prodr. ii. 351. 



Plains of WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DACCA, Clarke. KHASIA, Griffith. 

 DISTRIB. Java. 



Suberect, shrubby, with long trailing shoots, clothed with fine short grey pubes- 

 cence. Petioles erecto-patent, 1-2 in. ; stipules minute, caducous ; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, minutely stipellate, ovate or oblong, 13 in. long, acute, rounded at the 

 base, minutely pubescent, the end one distinctly stalked. Racemes nearly sessile, 

 laxly 2-6-flowered; pedicels | \ in., cernuous. Calyx downy, f in. deep, cut down 

 nearly to the base into 5 subequal scariose lobes ^-^ in. broad. Corolla not exserted. 

 Pod 3 f in. long, roundish, turgid, finely downy. 



2. R. Keynei, W. fy A. Prodr. 240 ; flowers scarcely pedicellate gemi- 

 nate or ternate, calyx-lobes lanceolate narrowed at the base, pod two-seeded 

 twice as long as broad. Oylista reticulata, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 5584. R. 

 coodoorensis, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 297. 



Plains of MYSORE, Heyne. NILGHIRIS, Seddome. 



Shrubby, with densely shortly grey-downy elongated slender branches. Stipules 

 minute, caducous; petiole l-l in. ; leaflets oblong, acute, rounded at the base, sub- 

 coriaceous. minutely pubescent, the end one 23 in. long, distinctly stalked. Flowers 

 in short-peduncled 2-4-nate racemes of 1-2 distant clusters. Calyx ^-| in., downy; 



