Itunwrgia.] LEGUMINOSAE. 379 



An erect shrub with red, sticky glands which give a dye 

 (Wants) ; flowers pink. 



i*. FLEMINGIA WIGHTIANA, Grah. ; W. & A. 242. F. congesta 

 var. Wightiana, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 229. 

 N. Circars, Mahendragiri Hill, Ganjani, at 4,000 ft.; 

 W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri, Pulney and Tinnevelly Hills, 

 in dry localities at low levels ; Shevaroy Hills in Salem . 

 An erect shrub, densely golden- silky, close to-F. Graliamiana, 

 but much less glandular. 



10. FLEMINOIA WALLICHII. W. & A. 242; F. B. I. ii. 229. 



W. Ghats, in Wyiiaad and Coimbatore, up to 4,000 ft. 



An erect shrub with yellow glands and small reticulate 



leaflets. 



11. FLEMINGIA NILGHERIENSIS, Wight. F. vestifa var. nil- 

 yheriensis, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 230. F. pt-< cumber, Wt. Ic. 

 t. 987. 



"W. Ghats, from the Bababudan Hills of Mysore to the 



Nilgiris and Pulneys. at 4,000 to 7,000 ft. 



A trailing plant with many yellow glands and purple 



flowers. 



53. Dalbergia, Linn. f. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate, impari- 

 pinnate or rarely 1-foliolate; leaflets alternate, usually 5 or 

 more; stipules usually small, deciduous; stipels 0. Flowers 

 small, usually numerous, in simple or panicled axillary or 

 terminal cymes ; bracts small, subpersistent ; bracteoles 2, usually 

 small and deciduous. Calyx campanulate ; teeth short, distinct, 

 the lowest usually longest. Corolla exserted ; standard ovate 

 obovate or orbicular; wings oblong, free; keel obtuse, the petals 

 joined at the tip. Stamens monadelphous (9 or 10) or isodia- 

 delphous (5 and 5), rarely diadelphous (9 and 1), anthers minute, 

 the cells back to back, dehiscing apically. Ovary stalked ; ovules 

 few; style incurved, short, beardless; stigma small, capitate. 

 Pod indehiscent, samaroid and compressed, sometimes thickened, 

 usually reticulate opposite the seed. Seeds 1-4, reniforrn, com- 

 pressed ; hilum small. 



Standard erect, wings cuneate, rarely truncate or subhastate at base, 

 keel petals cuneate or hastate ; style thick, cylindric, usually short ; 

 stamens usually monadelphous : 



