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47. Dunbaria Wight & Arn. 1 — Receptacle scarcely concave, lined 

 by a glandular disk slightly projecting round ovary. Calyx mem- 

 branous gamosepalous ; lobes 5, unequal acute ; 2 superior connate 

 to a variable height ; lowest usually longest. Corolla" and stamens 

 of Cajanus. Germen sessile oo-ovulate ; style slender or slightly 

 thickened, inflexed at middle, more or less pilose below small ter- 

 minal capitate stigma. Legume linear, straight or falcate, piano- 

 compressed continuous acuminate, subseptate within, 2-valved. 

 Seeds suborbicular ; funicle expanded near oblong or short hilum 

 into a rather thick membranous aril. — Herbs, prostrate or twining, 

 usually tomentose ; leaves pinnate 2-foliolate exstipellate ; flowers 3 

 in axillary pedunculate racemes, solitary or in pairs along the not node- 

 like rachis, rarely solitary at axils ; bracts membranous deciduous ; 

 bractlets {Tropical Asia, Australia*). 



48. Cylista Ait. 5 — Flowers of Rhynchosia; calyx membranous 

 scarious veined, finally much enlarged ; lobes 4 ; highest connate 

 into one broad, subentire or emarginate ; 2 lateral shorter, lowest 

 very large, concave, usually obtuse. Germen subsessile 1, 2 -ovulate, 

 style slender ; apex minute capitate stigmatiferous. Legume falcate- 

 ovate, included by enlarged calyx, 1 -seeded, 2-valved. Seed ex- 

 arillate. — A twining undershrub ; habit and other characters of 

 Mhyncliosia ; racemes axillary {East Indies 5 ). 



49. Rhynchosia Lour. 7 — Flowers almost those of Cajanus or 

 Alj/losia, usually smaller ; calyx-lobes unchanged after anthesis ; 2 

 posterior connate to a variable height. Petals and stamens of 



1 Prodr., 258.— Endl., Gen., n. 6682 — 

 B. H., Gen., 541, n. 230. 



2 From which the genus is divided into two 

 sections by Bentham, as follows : — " 1. JEudun- 

 baria. Corolla marcescent, persistent round fruit. 

 — 2. Rt/ncholabium. Corolla finally deciduous." 



3 " Usually yellow." 



4 Species about 12. Benth., in PI. Jungh., 

 i. 242 ; Fl. Austral., ii.— Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 

 p. i. 177. — Walp., Ann., iv. 565. 



4 Hort. Kew., ed. 1, iii. 512.— DC, Prodr., 

 ii. 410 (part.).— Endl., Gen., n. 6694 (part.).— 

 B. H., Gen., 542, n. 232. 



6 Species 1. C. scariosa Ait., loc. cit. — Roxb., 

 PI. Coromand., i. t. 92. — DC, loc. cit., n. 1. — 

 Wight, Icon., t. 1597. 



' Fl. CocTi., 460.— DC, Prodr.,\\. 384 (part.). 

 —Endl., Gen., n. 6692.— B. H., Gen., 542, n. 

 233. — Cyanospermnm Wight & Akn., Prodr., 

 259.— Wight, III, t. 81 (84).— Endl., Gen., 

 n. 6695. — Nomismia Wight & Akn., Prodr., 

 236.— Wight, Ic, t. 283, 295.— Arcyphyllttm 

 Ell., iu Jonrn. Acad. Phil., i. 371. — DC, Mem. 

 Legum., t. 55. — Pitcheria Nutt., in Journ. 

 Acad. Phil., vii. 93. — Polytropia Phesl, Symb., 

 21, t. 13. — Hidrosia E. Mf.y., Comm. PL Afric, 

 89. — Orthodaiium E. Mi: v., op. cit., 131. 

 — Endl., Gen.,n. 6690. — Copisma E. .Mi \ .. 

 cit., 133. — Chrysoscias E. Met., op. cit., 

 139. — Sigmodostyles Meissn., in Hook. Jonrn., 

 ii. 93. 



