Pycnospom.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 333 



single or in pairs, distant, in slender axillary racemes ; bracts 

 large, scarious, striate, deciduous ; bracteoles minute or 0. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla exserted ; standard 

 obovate, emarginate ; wings oblong ; keel petals obtuse. Stamens 

 diadelplious, 9 and 1, persistent; anthers uniform. Ovary sub- 

 sessile, 1-2-ovuled ; style short, inflexed above ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod a single, boat-shaped, membranous, reticulate, compressed 

 joint, the dorsal margin straight. Seed transversely oblong, 

 subreniform; strophiole 0. 



ELEIOTIS SOBORIA, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 153; W. & A. ^>1. 



Deccan and Carnatic, westwards to the Shevaroy Hills and 

 the lower E. slopes of the Nilgiris and Pulneys. 

 A long-trailing plant with usually a single leaflet about 

 5 in. long and '75 in. broad, emarginate at apex, cordate 

 at base, sometimes with a pair of small leaflets above the 

 petiole ; very small flowers and pod. 



24. Pycnospora, R. Br. 



A low shrub with slender stems. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; 

 leaflets stipellate ; stipules free, membranous, striate. Flowers 

 small, purplish, in slender terminal or axillary racemes ; bracts 

 membranous, deciduous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx deeply cleft, the 

 teeth subulate, the 2 upper connate except at apex. Corolla 

 exserted ; standard orbicular, clawed ; wings oblong, oblique, 

 adherent to the obtuse slightly curved keel petals. Stamens 

 diadelphous, 9 and 1 ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, many- 

 ovuled ; style inflexed ; stigma minute, capitate. Pod oblong, 

 inflated, 2-valved, continuous within, the thin valves transversely 

 veined, 6-10-seeded. Seeds small, subreniform, with a minute 

 strophiole. 



PYCNOSPORA HEDYSAROIDES, R. Br. ; F. B. I. ii. 153. P. 



nervosa, W. & A. 197. 



Hills of the Carnatic, Shevaroys and Sirumalais to Tinne- 

 velly ; W. Ghats and W. Coast from S. Canara southwards, 

 and to 3,000 ft. in Nilgiris and Pulneys. 



A slender often trailing plant with the habit of Desmodinm 

 and the pod of Crotalaria ; leaflets obovate, prominently 

 nerved, reaching 1*5 in. long. 



