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2*24i u LEGUMINOS^:. (J. G. Baker.) [Rhynchosia. 



lower half subdeltoid, racemes laxer 2-4 or even 6 in. long. R. laxiflora, Camb. in 

 Jacquem. Voy. Sot. 44, t. 54. R. Candollei, Decne. ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 170. R. 

 tenuicaulis, Wall: Cat. 5495. R. filicaulis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5502. Dolichos 

 fatmensis, Hochst. $ Steud. in Schimp. Arab. Exsic. No. 873. 



13. XI. Memnonia, DC. Prodr. 386; stems and leaves clothed with 

 minute persistent grey pubescence, leaflets as broad as long obtuse deltoid in the 

 lower half, flowers few in lax racemes, calyx-teeth exceeding the tube, pod 

 small 3-4 times the calyx. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 625. R. pulyerulenta, Stocks 

 in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 147; Boiss. FL Orient, loc. cit. Glycine Memnonia, 

 Delile Fl. ^Egypt. 100, t. 38, fig. 3. 



SCINDE, near Kurrachee, Stocks. DISTEIB. Arabia, Trop. Africa. 

 Scarcely more than a variety of the preceding, from which it only differs in 

 vestiture. 



14. XI. velutina, W. 8f A. Prodr. 233 ; young branches minutely downy, 

 leaflets thinly grey-canesce-nt beneath as broad as long obtuse deltoid in the 

 lower half, racemes 2-4-flowered cymose, calyx-teeth equalling or exceeding 

 the tube, pod middle-sized 4-5 times the calyx. 



NlLGHlRIS. 



Stems wide-trailing, rather stouter than in R. minima, glabrescent when mature. 

 Stipules minute, linear, caducous ; leaflets subcoriaceous, |-1 in. long and broad, 

 green, glabrous above, persistently thinty grey-canescent beneath, exstipellate, the 

 end one distinctly stalked. Cymes 2-4-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 

 -L_l i n . Calyx |-^ in., finely silky ; lowest tooth linear-setaceous, twice the tube, 

 the others much shorter, lanceolate. Corolla \ in. Pod much recurved, \-\\ in. by 

 | in., glabrescent, 2-seeded, narrowed very gradually to the base. 



15. XI. pilosa, Watt. Cat. 5499 ; branches and leaves clothed with long 

 fine spreading grey hairs, leaflets oblong rounded at the base, racemes short 

 few-flowered, calyx-teeth with long setaceous points exceeding the tube. 



BIBMA ; banks of the Irrawaddi at Segaen, Wallich. 



Stems very slender, twining. Stipules linear, ^ in., subpersistent ; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, grey-green above, grey beneath, clothed on the edge and below with con- 

 spicuous long fine hairs, exstipellate, the end one oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at 

 both ends, 1^-2 in. long. Racemes like those of E. minima, the buds like dense 

 tufts of silky hairs ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracts minute, lanceolate. 

 Calyx in., all the teeth with long setaceous points. Corolla half as long again as 

 the calyx. Pod unknown. 



16. XI. Falconer!, Baker; branches and leaves clothed with short 

 spreading grey hairs, leaflets ovate-oblong rounded at both ends, racemes long- 

 peduncled lax few-flowered, lowest calyx-tooth linear exceeding the tube, pod 

 middle-sized 4-5 times the length of the calyx. 



G-URWHAL, Falconer, 



Stems wide-trailing, slender, densely clothed with short firm deflexed grey hairs. 

 Stipules ^5- in., subpersistent, linear or lanceolate; petiole 1-2 in.; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, 1-1^ in. long, rounded to both ends, greenish beneath, thinly clothed on 

 both sides with persistent moderately firm grey hairs, exstipellate, the end one dis- 

 tinctly stalked. Sac-ernes 4-6-flowered ; peduncles much exceeding the leaves ; 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx pilose, | in. ; teeth linear. Corolla half as 

 long again as the calyx ; standard slightly pilose. Pod 1 in. by f in., finely pubes- 

 cent, 2-seeded. 



** Leaflets larger, flexible , not coriaceous, mostly acute. Pod much exceeding 

 the calyx. 



