Rhynehosia.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 371 



lanceolate, deciduous ; stipels subulate. Flowers in axillary some- 

 times panicled racemes ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, mem- 

 branous, caducous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tribe campanulate, lobes 

 obtuse scarious, accrescent, persistent, the lowest the largest and 

 boat-shaped, the upper 2 connate in an emarginate lip, the 2 lateral 

 shorter. Corolla included ; standard suborbicular, auricled at 

 base with 2 callosities above it ; wings narrow, auricled ; keel 

 incurved, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary 

 subsessile, 1-ovuled ; style long, filiform ; stigma terminal, capi- 

 tate. Pod small, oblique, enclosed in the calyx. Seed 1, oblong, 

 not strophiolate. 



CYLISTA SCARIOSA. Roxb. Cor. PL t. 92; F. B. I. ii. 219; 

 W. & A. 259 ; Wt. Ic. t. 1597. 



N. Circars, common in the open forests from Gaiijam to 



Godavari at low levels ; D ocean, in Kurnool and Mysore ; 



Carnatic, in Tinnevelly. 



A climber with yellow flowers concealed in a prominent 



accrescent calyx, the leaflets reticulate beneath and softly 



pubescent. 



51. Rhynehosia, Lour. 



Twining or erect herbs or shrubs. Leaves phmately or sometimes 

 subdigitately 3-f oliolate ; stipules ovate or lanceolate ; stipels subu- 

 late or minute or 0. Flowers in axillary racemes, solitary or in 

 pairs on the rhachis. rarely solitary; bracts usually caducous; brac- 

 teoles 0. Calyx-tube short, lobes subequal, the 2 upper more or 

 less connate, not or only slightly accrescent. Corolla included or 

 exserted ; standard obovate or orbicular with inflexed auricles at 

 the base ; wings narrow ; keel incurved, hardly beaked. Stamens 

 diadelphous; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, usually 2- rarely 

 1-ovuled ; style long, filiform, much incurved ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod round or oblong, more or less compressed, continuous or 

 septate within. Seeds 2, rarely 1, subreniform ; strophiole present 

 or absent. 

 Seeds strophiolate : 



Calyx conspicuous, accrescent ; leaflets ovate, acute ; flowers in lax 

 racemes : 



Calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse ; bracts ovate ; pod as long as broad, 



pointed, 1-seeded 1. rufescens. 



Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute ; bracts cordate ; pod twice as long 

 as broad, 2-seeded 2. Heynei. 



