226 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. Gr. Baker.) [Rhynchosia. 



Branches twining or straight, woody, many-grooved, persistently pilose. Stipules 

 minute, caducous ; leaflets 24 in. long and broad, thick, subcoriaceous, green, thinly 

 downy above, densely softly grey-downy beneath, exstipellate. Racemes moderately 

 close, distinctly peduncled, much exceeding the leaves ; pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyx 5 g- in., densely downy ; upper teeth deltoid or lanceolate, shorter than 

 the tube. Corolla | in.; standard canescent externally. Pod 1-1 in, by ^ in., 

 turgid, 2-seeded. narrowed in the lower half, minutely downy. 



21. R. acutissima, Thivaites, Enum. 413 ; pubescence short not glandular, 

 leaflets oblong-rhomboidal, pedicels exceeding the calyx, lowest calyx-tooth 

 lanceolate much shorter than the corolla. 



TRAVANCOR, Beddome, CEYLON, near Hantani, alt. 3000 ft., Tkwaites. 



A twiner, with stems clothed with short pale brown tomentum: Stipules lanceo- 

 late, caducous ; leaflets 2-5 in. long, very acuminate. Racemes equalling or shorter 

 than the leaves ; pedicels geminate, \-^ in. long ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 

 deciduous. Calyx in. ; teeth lanceolate, the upper pair subconnate. Corolla ^ in., 

 yellow veined with red. Ovary 2-ovuled. Pod not seen. 



*** Lea/lets not at all coriaceous. Calyx as long as the corolla, nearly as long 

 as the pod. (Arcyphyllum, Elliott). 



22. R. densiflora, DC. Prodr. ii. 386 ; Wall. Cat. 5492, excl. D. ; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 239. Glycine densiflora, Roth Nov. Sp. 348. Hedysarum 

 punctatuni, Rottl. in Berl. Mag. 231, non Poir. Desmodium punctatum, DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 338. 



Plains of both sides of the WESTERN PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Zambesi land. 



Stems very slender, woody, wide-twining, finely grey-downy. Stipides minute, 

 caducous ;, leaflets ovate-rhomboidal, obtuse or acute, 1-2 in. long, flexible, minutely 

 grey-downy, especially below, sometimes stipellate, the end one short-stalked. Flowers 

 20-40 or more in dense nearly sessile heads usually shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 

 much shorter than the calyx ; bracts linear, ^~% in., persistent. Calyx | ^ in. ; teeth 

 all lanceolate acuminate ; tube very short. Corolla glabrous. Pod oblong, ^ f in 

 by 5 in., 2-seeded, pubescent, oblique, narrowed suddenly at the tip. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



DOLICHOS CANDICANS, Wall. Cat. 5567, from Aya, belongs either to 3 or 5, but 

 the seed is not known. It has densely tomentose virgate branches, thick coriaceous 

 obtuse leaflets rather broader than long densely persistently grey-tomentose on the 

 lower side with the veinlets raised, the end one distinctly stalked 1-2 in. long, 

 racemes short-peduncled closely few-flowered, small lanceolate bracts, pedicels shorter 

 than the calyx, calyx densely grey-pubescent f in. long, lowest tooth linear exceeding 

 the tube, the others shorter, lanceolate, corolla scarcely exserted. 



R. MOLLISSIMA, Dalz. inJourn. Linn. Soc. xiii. 186, from Kandesh, which I have not 

 seen, is said to differ from R. sericea principally by the want of callosities and auricles 

 to the standard. 



85. FLEIVXINQIA, Eoxb. 



Shrubs, rarely herbs, with leaves digitately 3-foliolate or simple, gland-dotted 

 below. Inflorescence various ; pedicels very short, not bracteolate. Calyx-tube 

 short ; teeth narrow, acuminate, the lowest often the longest. Corolla little or 

 not at all exserted; petals equal in length ; keel obtuse or slightly rostrate. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 2-ovuled ; style fili- 

 form, "beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, small, usually two- 

 seeded ; seeds not strophiolate, the funicle centrical. DISTRIB. Only 3 Trop. 

 African species not here represented. 



STTBGEN. 1. Ostryodium, Desv. Shrubs. Leaves simple. Floivers in 



