338 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Alysicarpus. 



1. ALYSICARPUS MONILIFER, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 157; W. & A. 232. 



In all dry Districts, especially the E. Coast, on pasture land. 

 A small prostrate much-branched perennial herb ; flowers 

 pink. Yern. Tel. Amera. 



2. ALYSICARPUS VAGHSTALIS, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 158; W. & A. 233. 



In all dry Districts and on both Coasts, on pasture land. 

 A suberect much-branched herbaceous plant. 

 Yar. nummularifolius, Baker in F. B. I. ii. 158. A. nummulari- 

 foUus, W. & A. 232. 



As widely distributed as the type from which it differs in 

 the short dense racemes ; flowers pink. 



3. ALYSICARPUS HAMOSUS, Edgew. ; F. B. I. ii. 157. 



East Coast, at Masulipatam (Bourne) ; Deccan, at Bellary 



(Wight). 



A slender, diffuse, very hairy, herbaceous plant ; flowers 



bluish-purple. 



4. ALYSICARPUS BUPLEURIFOLIUS, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 158 ; 

 W. & A. 233. Hedysarum bupieurifolium, Linn. ; Roxb. 

 Cor. PL t. 194. 



In most forest Districts, chiefly among long grass, and up 

 to 3,000 ft. in hilly country. 



A very slender perennial with narrow acute leaflets, usually 

 linear, but basal ones sometimes elliptic or even orbicular. 

 Flowers with orange standard and keel and crimson wings; 

 pod with 4-6 joints. 

 Yar. gracilis, Baker in F. B. I. ii. 158. 



Deccan, Hills of Cuddapah and Coimbatore up to 3,500 ft. ; 

 W. Ghats, in the lower Pulneys (Bourne). 

 Leaves linear-oblong, broader and obtuse at apex ; joints 

 of pod 1-3. 



5. ALYSICARPUS LONGIFOLIUS, W. & A. 233 ; F. B. I. ii. 159 ; 



Wt. Ic. t, 251. 



Northern Division (Cleghorn) ; " cornfields near Ongole, 

 Circars " (W. & A.) ; " not infrequent in black cotton soil 

 in the Ceded Districts and Circars'' (Wight). 

 A stout erect undershrub reaching 4-5 ft. in height; leaflet 

 3-6 in. long, reticulate, prominently nerved; pod 3-6- jointed. 



6. ALYSICARPUS RUGOSUS, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 159 ; A. Walliclm, 



W. & A. 234. 

 Hills of the Deccan, in Mysore and Coimbatore up to 



