370 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Dwwbaria. 



49. Dunbaria, W. & A. 



Prostrate or twining woody herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-folio- 

 late, glandular beneath ; stipules setaceous or lanceolate ; stipels, 

 small or 0. Flowers in axillary peduiicled racemes, solitary or 

 paired on the rhachis ; bracts membranous, usually broadly ovate,, 

 very early deciduous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tiibe campanulate, the 

 teeth lanceolate or triangular, the lowest the longest, the 2 upper 

 ones connate in an entire or bifid lobe. Corolla exserted, some- 

 times marcescent ; standard obovate or orbicular with auricles at 

 the base and 2 callosities above it ; wings obliquely obovate or 

 oblong, auricled; keel petals incurved, obtuse. Stamens dia~ 

 delphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, 

 many-ovuled ; style inflexed, filiform or thickened, beardless ; 

 stigma capitate. Pod oblong, compressed, subseptate within, not 

 depressed between the seeds outside. Seeds suborbicular, the 

 funicle expanded but scarcely strophiolate. 



Corolla large, marcescent: 



Sterns and leaves tawny -pubescent, the leaflets thick, broadly ovate,, 

 acute or acuminate ; stipels generally ; calyx-lobes lanceolate ; 

 standard over 1 in. long, emarginate ; pod softly tawny-pubescent 



1. ferruginea. 



Stems and leaves with scattered strigose hairs, the leaflets thin,, 

 end one obovate, side ones unequally lanceolate, all acuminate; 

 stipels present; calyx-lobes short except the lowest; standard '75 in. 

 long, obtuse ; pod with long villous hairs 2. Heynei. 



1. DUNBARIA FERRUGINEA, W. A. 258; F. B. I. ii. 217. 

 D. latifolia, W. & A. 258. 



Deccan, Hills of Cuddapah and N. Coimbatore ; W. Ghats, 

 in the Nilgiri, Pulney and Travancore Hills, up to 3,000 ft. 

 A stout climber with large yellow flowers. 



2. DUNBARIA HEYNEI, W. & A. 258; F. B. I. ii. 217. 



W. Ghats, in Mysore, Wynaad and the Anamalais, up to 



3,000 ft. 



A climber with yellow flowers ; stipules and stipels 



prominent. 



50. Cylista, Ait, 



A twining shrub. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, with resinous 

 glands beneath ; leaflets ovate or rhomboidal, acuminate; stipulea 



