334 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Pseudarthria* 



25. Pseudarthria, W. & A. 



Herbs and undershrubs, villons or viscid-pubescent. Leaves 

 pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets large, stipellate ; stipules free, 

 subulate, striate. Flowers small, in pairs or fascicled along the 

 rhacliis of a terminal or axillary slender raceme, occasionally 

 paniculate ; bracts and bracteoies subulate like the stipules, 

 Calyx-tube campanulate, cleft to the middle in. 2 obscure lips, the 

 2 upper lobes connate. Corolla exserted ; standard suborbicular ; 

 wings obliquely oblong ; keel petals obtuse, not spurred. Stamens 

 diadelphous, 9 and 1, anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile ; ovules 

 many; style subulate, inflexed ; stigma small, capitate. Pod 

 linear-oblong, flat, continuous within and not jointed, the valves 

 transversely veined. Seeds compressed, reniform. 



PSEUDARTHRIA VISCIDA, W. & A. 209 ; F. B. I. ii. 15 t ; Wt. Ic, 



t. 28G. 



Nearly all Districts from the Godavari southwards, up to 

 3,000 ft. in the hills, common in somewhat damp forest 

 undergrowth. 



A viscid Desmodiiim-like undershrub with leaflets rhomboid- 

 ovate, repand sinuate on the margins, the pods very sticky 

 and adherent, *72 in. long. *25 in. broad, the flowers pink. 



26. Lourea, Neck. 



Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets often 

 broader than long, stipellate ; stipules free, subulate. Flowers 

 white or reddish, usually in pairs in lax terminal racemes ; bracts 

 acuminate, caducous ; bracteoies 0. Calyx campanulate, reticu- 

 lately veined, accrescent, persistent, subequally 5-lobed, the 

 uppermost two lobes sometimes partly connate, all lanceolate. 

 Corolla short ; standard ob ovate or obcordate ; wings obliquely 

 oblong, adnate to the obtuse keel. Stamens diadelphous, 9 and 1 ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, few-ovuled ; style 

 subulate, inflexed; stigma capitate. Pod a lomentum of 2 or 

 more 1-seeded indehiscent turgid joints folded up within the 

 calyx, the joints thin- and reticulaUly-valved. Seeds reniform 

 or subglobose, strophiole 0. 



Erect ; end leaflets transverse with two divaricating oblong-lanceolate 

 i'alcately- recurved 3-nerved obtuse lobes, '5 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, 

 side ones obliquely obcordate 1 . Vespertilionis. 



