326 FLORA OF MADRAS. \_StylosantJies. 



long, slender, filiform ; lobes obtuse, membranous, ciliate, unequal, 

 the upper 4 connate. Petals inserted at the throat of the calyx- 

 tube ; standard orbicular ; wings oblong, free ; keel petals 

 incurved, obtuse. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers dimorphous. 

 Ovary subsessile at the base of the calyx-tube ; ovules 2-3 ; style 

 elongate, filiform ; stigma minute, terminal. Pod sessile, com- 

 pressed, hooked at the apex with the persistent base of the style ; 

 joints 1-2, reticulate or muricate. Seeds compressed, lenticular, 

 estrophiolate. 



STYLOSANTHES MUCRONATA, Willd. ; F. B. I. ii. 148 ; W. & A. 

 218 ; Bedd. Ic. t. 294. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in dry localities, up to 

 3,000 ft. in the hills. 



A stiff undershrub with trifoliolate sharply mucronate leaves 

 and conspicuous sheathing stipules, the pods small, hard, 

 reticulate, flowers yellow. Yern. Tel. Saillee kumpa. 

 Arachis hypogaea, Willd. is the " Ground nut " or " Monkey 

 nut," largely cultivated for its edible seed, from which a valuable 

 oil is expressed. It is an article of considerable trade. 



17. Lespedeza, Michx. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3- rarely 1-foliolate ; 

 leaflets entire without stipels ; stipules free, small. Flowers 

 purple pink white or yellow, in axillary fascicles or racemes or 

 terminal panicles ; bracts small ; bracteoles 2 at the base of the 

 calyx-tube. Calyx-tube campanulate, teeth 5 subequal or the 

 2 upper slightly connate, lanceolate or linear. Corolla exserted ; 

 standard obovate, narrowed to a claw ; wings falcate ; keel 

 petals incurved, obtuse or beaked. Stamens diadelphous, 9 and 1 ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, 1-ovuled ; style fili- 

 form, incurved ; stigma capitate. Pod small, orbicular or ovate, 

 compressed, 1-seeded, flattened, indehiscent. Seeds suborbicular, 

 strophiole 0. 



LESPEDEZA SERICEA, Miq. ; F. B. I. ii. 142. 



W. Ghats, in the Pulney Hills, at 6,000-7,000 ft. (Bourne, 



Fischer). 



An erect undershrub with long slender virgate branches, 



small white flowers tinged with purple, linear cuneate silky 



leaflets and very small orbicular pod. 



