Flemingia.~] L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 229 



F. angustifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 341 ? Crotalaria macrophylla, W-illd. Sp. 

 iii. 982. Rhynchosia crotalarioides, DC, Prodr. ii. 387. 



CENTRAL HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and MALACCA, in the tropical region. DISTRIB. 

 Malay isles, China, Philippines. 



An erect woody shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with terete glabrescent old and rather angular 

 sulcate silky young branches. Stipules linear, in., caducous ; petiole 1-4 in., sul- 

 cate down the face, not winged ; leaflets subcoriaceous, thin not plicate, 4-6 in. long, 

 narrowed to a long point, and downwards to a rather rounded base, green and glabrous 

 above, thinly grey-silky beneath. Racemes oblong, dense, 1-2 in. long, sessile, often 

 fascicled ; bracts lanceolate, ^ in. long, silky on the back, like the calyx, deciduous, 

 not at all rigid ; pedicels very short. Calyx | f in., densely clothed with adpressed 

 shining pale brown silky hairs; teeth linear-lanceolate, the lowest exceeding the 

 others. Corolla scarcely exserted ; keel obtuse. Pod oblong, ^ in. long, obscurely 

 downy, 2-seeded. 



VAR. 1. semialata ; general habit and leaflets of the type, but the petiole narrowly 

 winged, the racemes often rather laxer and calyx-teeth narrower. F. semialata, Eoxb. 

 FL hid. iii. 340 ; Don Prodr. 242 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 241 ; Wight Ic. t. 326 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5746, in greattr part. F. stricta, Wall. Cat. 5745 E. F. prostrata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 338 (a low trailing form). Kange of the type, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Central 

 Himalayas. 



VAR. 2. latifolia; tall, very robust, leaflets larger acute 6-9 in. long, bracts f-^in. 

 long like the calyx densely clothed with shining adpressed brown silky hairs. F. 

 latifolia, Benth. PI. Jungh. 246 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 163. Khasia, 2-3000 ft. Hook. 

 Jil. and Thomson, Griffith. DISTRIB. Java. 



VAR. 3. Wightiana ; erect, branches densely silky, leaflets smaller thicker densely 

 clothed with adpressed grey or ferruginous silky hairs below with the veinlets raised, 

 petiole not winged, pubescence of calyx and raceme-rachis denser and less adpressed. 

 F. Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5751 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 242. F. ferruginea, Wall. 

 Cat. 5750. Nilghiris, Wight. Bhotan, Griffith. Ava, at Taong-Dong, Wallich. 



VAR. 4. nana; a low diffuse undershrub, leaflets obtuse 1-2 in. long plicate reti- 

 culato-rugose beneath, heads few subglobose few-flowered sometimes shortly peduncled, 

 calyx-teeth deep very narrow, pod slightly downy. F. nana, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 56 ; 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 339 ; Wall Cat. 5748 A ; Wight Ic. t. 389 (suberect). F. procumbens, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 338 ; Wight Ic. t. 408 (trailing diffuse) ; Valz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 75. 

 F. capitata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5749. Central and Eastern Himalayas, 2-5000 ft., 

 Concan. 



8. F. Wallichii, W. $ A. Prodr. 242 ; branches subterete, leaflets obo- 

 vate obtuse or subacute finely downy beneath, bracts small not at all rigid, calyx 

 shaggy. F. semialata, var. vestita. Wall. Cat. 5746, G. F. nana, Wall. Cat. 

 5748, B. F. sericans, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Seng, xliii. 2, 186. 



Hills of WESTERN PENINSULA. PROME, Wallich. MARTABAN, Kurz. 



Branches slender, erect, densely clothed with short spreading hairs. Stipules small, 

 caducous; petiole 1-2 in., faintly winged; leaflets obovate-oblong, 2-4 in. long, gla- 

 brous on the upper surface, nearly flat. Heads dense, oblong, sessile, 1-2 in. long, 

 solitary or fascicled. Calyx f-^- in., shaggy, with dense persistent firm spreading 

 grey hairs, slit down nearly to the base into subequal linear plumose teeth. Corolla 

 included. Pod oblong, as long as the calyx, finely downy. Not clearly distinct from 

 the last, from which it mainly differs in vestiture. 



SUBGEN". 4. Iiepidocoma, Jungh. An erect shrub. Leaves digitately 

 3-foliolate. Flowers in dense globose heads surrounded by large bracts (like tha 

 capitula of Composite). 



9. F. involucrata, Benth. PL Jungh. 246. F. capitata, Zolling.', Mii^. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 166. Lespedeza involucrata, Wall. Cat. 5742. Lepidocoma 

 trifoliatum, Jungh. fieise, 338. 



