332 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Onnocarpum. 



axillary racemes ; bracts small, scarious ; bracteoles 2, at the 

 base of the calyx-tribe. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5, the 

 2 upper subconnate broad, the median ones similar, the lowest 

 longer and narrow. Corolla exserted, petals all clawed ; standard 

 orbicular, short ; wings obliquely obovate ; keel petals incurved, 

 usually obtuse, equal to the wings. Stamens at first mona- 

 delphous, the tube cleft above, later on in two bundles of 5 each ; 

 anthers uniform. vary linear, few-ovuled; style filiform ; stigma 

 minute, terminal. Pod stalked,compressed, striate longitudinally 

 and prickly- warfced, the joints oblong, narrow at both ends. Seeds 

 narrowly oblong. 



ORMOCARPUM SENNOIDES, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 152 ; W. & A. 216 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 297. 



Deecan, in Cuddapali, N". Arcot and Chingleput, in woods 



and hedges and on waste lands, scarce. 



A low shrub with oblong obtuse membranous leaflets, yellow 



flowers, and prickly pods with 2-4 distant joints. Vern. 



Tel Nal kashina. 



22. Leptodesmia, Benth. & Hook. f. 



Diffuse perennial herbs. Leaves 1- or 3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 small, stipellate ; stipules free. Flowers small, crowded in short 

 terminal capitate racemes ; bracts scariose, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Calyx of 5 subequal setaceous lobes. Corolla small, included; 

 standard suborbicular, clawed ; wings obliquely oblong ; keel- 

 lobes obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, 9 and 1 ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod small, membranous, 1-seeded, included in the calyx, the 

 valves opening widely. Seed estrophiolate. 



LEPTODESMIA CONGESTA, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 152. Nicolsonia 

 congesta, Wt. Ic. t. 1056. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, at 4,000 to 7,000 ft. 

 A small trailing perennial with orbicular or orbicular-oblong 

 leaves up to '75 in. long, small reticulate pods and crowded 

 capitate flower-heads yellow or white plumose with the long 

 hairs on the setaceous sepals. 



23. Eleiotis, DC. 



Annual procumbent slender herbs with triquetrous stems. 

 Leaves 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets stipellate ; stipules striate. Flowers 



