376 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Rhynchoria. 



16. RHYNCHOSIA BRACTEATA, Bentli. ; F. B. I. ii. 225. 



Deccan, Mantralakaiiama Pass in Kurnool, 2,000 ft. 



(Gamble). 



A rather stiff climber with tawny pubescence and yellow 



flowers. 



17. RHYNCHOSIA DENSIFLORA, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 226; W. & A. 

 239. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris, Anamalais and Pulneys, up to 

 5,000 ft. 



A slender twiner, softly villous, with yellow flowers, the 

 standard often streaked with red. 



52. Flemingia, Eoxb. 



Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely herbs, erect or trailing. Leaves 

 1-foliolate or digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules striate, often deci- 

 duous ; stipels 0. Flowers in axillary or terminal simple or com- 

 pound racemes panicles or sometimes heads ; bracts foliaceous or 

 scarious, persistent or caducous ; bracteoles or minute. Calyx- 

 tube short, teeth subequal or the lowest the longest, usually 

 lanceolate. Corolla little or not exserted ; standard obovate or 

 orbicular, auricled at base ; wings obliquely oblong or obovate, 

 sometimes short, adnate to the obtuse or slightly rostrate keel. 

 Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, short, 

 2-ovuled ; style filiform or thickened above ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod small, oblique, turgid, usually 2-seeded. Seeds suborbicular, 

 estrophiolate. 



Leaves unifoliolate ; flowers in axillary and terminal distichous 

 racemes of small cymes, each fof which is hidden within a large 

 folded persistent cordate floral leaf, the cymes with many 

 bracteoles : 



Leaflet lanceolate ; flowers '2-' 3 in. long ; rhachis of inflorescence 

 flexuose : 



Branchlets terete ; floral leaves up to 1 in. long, glabrescent, 

 usually very shortly cuspidate ; lateral nerves of leaflets close, 



usually more than 8 pairs 1. strobilifera. 



Branchlets angular; floral leaves up to *75 in. long, softly hirsute, 

 usually emarginate ; lateral nerves of leaflets distant, usually less 



than 6 pairs 2. bracteata. 



Leaflet orbicular, cordate, cuspidate, 2-4 in. in diarn.; flowers 



