222 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Rhynchosia. 



ternally. W. $ A. Prodr. 240. Glycine suaveolens, Linn. Suppl. 326. Cajanus 

 suaveolens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5579. 



Plains of CEYLON and both sides of the WESTERN PENINSULA. 



An undershrub, 1-3 ft. high, with many stiff erecto-patent branches, clothed with 

 fine short grey pubescence, sometimes lengthened out and half twining at the ends. 

 Stipules minute, lanceolate ; petiole 1-2 in., stiffly erecto-patent ; leaflets almost 

 membranous, pale green, minutely downy, especially beneath, sometimes stipellate, the 

 end one roundish, with a long cusp, distinctly stalked, 1-3 in. long. Peduncles 

 slender, erecto-patent, downy, seldom above 1 in. ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx in., downy ; teeth linear-setaceous. Pod oblong, -| in. long, turgid, 

 2 -seeded. 



7. H. cana, DC. Prodr. ii. 386 ; leaves minutely downy, flowers in 

 peduncled pairs, calyx-teeth exceeding the tube, corolla twice the calyx, pod 

 minutely downy neither lineate externally nor septate internally. Wall. Cat. 

 5498 ; W.SfA. Prodr. 240. Glycine cana, Willd. Sp. iii. 1063. 



Plains of CEYLON, and both sides of the WESTERN PENINSULA. 



A dwarf undershrub, with very numerous erecto-patent slender shortly downy 

 branchlets. Petioles- 1-2 in. long, erecto-patent ; leaflets obovate or oblong, obtuse 

 or subacute, thicker in texture and deeper in colour than in the last, thinly pilose 

 above, densely or thinly grey downy beneath, 1-2 in. long, exstipellate, the end one 

 distinctly stalked. Peduncles slender, ^-1 in. ; pedicels shorter than the calyx, with 

 a small persistent lanceolate bract at the base. Calyx in., densely silky. Pod 

 oblong, ^-f i n - l n g> turgid, glabrescent, 2-seeded. 



8. R. avensis, Benth. MSS. ; leaflets densely tomentose beneath, flowers 

 in peduncle^ racemes,, lowest calyx-tooth 3-4 times as lonp: as the tube^, pod 

 densely hairy lineate externally not septate internally. Cajanus candicans, 

 Wall. Cat. 5576. Atylosia candicans, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliii. 2, 

 186. 



AVA ; Taongdong, Wallich. PEGU, near Rangoon, McClelland. 



Branches slender, woody, virgate, densely clothed with grey tomentum. Stipules 

 caducous ; petiole 1-2 in., stiffly erecto-patent ; leaflets thick, coriaceous, greenish, 

 thinly canescent above, densely persistently thickly grey-canescent beneath, the end 

 one ovate-acuminate, 3-4 in. long. Peduncles equalling or exceeding the petioles ; 

 pedicels - in. ; bracts lanceolate, caducous. Calyx -f in., densely silky ; all the 

 teeth linear-setaceous, the lowest the longest. Corolla not exserted. Pod oblique, 

 oblong, firm, | f in. long, 2-seeded. 



9. XI. Beddoxnei, Baker; leaflets argenteo-canescent on both sides, 

 flowers in subsessile congested racemes, calyx-teeth much exceeding the tube, 

 corolla not exserted. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Cudrape hills, Beddome. 



An erect shrub, with terete white-canescent branches. Petioles erecto-patent, ^-f 

 in. ; leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, thinly persistently 

 argenteo-canescent above, densely so beneath, the veins conspicuously raised, the end 

 one short-stalked. Flowers in copious cymes from "the axils of reduced leaves ; 

 pedicels much shorter than calyx. Calyx f in., thinly silky. Corolla bright yellow. 

 Pod 1-seeded, not seen fully mature, oblong, thinly canescent. 



F. 4. Cyanospermum, W. fy A. A woody twiner with broad 

 foliaceous calyx-teeth. Seeds without an arillus. 



10. It. cyanosperma, Benth. in Oliv. Flor. Trap. Africa, ii. 218. Cya- 

 nospermum tomentosum, W. fy A. Prodr. 260 ; Wight III. t. 81 (84) ; Dalz. $ 



