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racliis, more rarely solitary or itw in each axil 1 {Tropical America, 

 Asia, Australia, and Africa 1 ). 



51. Flemingia Boxb. 3 — Flowers almost those of Eriosema, calyx- 

 lobes nearly equal or lowest lobe longer, nearly free, often falcate. 

 Corolla and stamens of Bhynchosia. Germen sessile or shortly 

 stipitate, short; ovules 2, descending; style filiform or rather 

 thickened above; apex minutely capitate, stiginatiferous. Legume 

 short oblique turgid, continuous within, 1-2-seeded, 2-valved. 

 Seeds somewhat thick, hilum short exarillate. — Herbs, undershrubs, 

 or shrubs ; erect, prostrate, or more rarely twining ; leaves 1-3-folio- 

 late exstipellate ; veins prominent on under surface ; stipules striated 

 usually caducous; flowers 4 racemose, racemes branched {Ostryodium, 5 

 Chalaria 6 ), or dense spike-like or capitate, axillary or terminal 

 {Flemingiastrum 1 ) ; bracts sometimes small (C/ialaria) ; oftener dry 

 striated imbricated before an thesis, finally deciduous {Flemingias- 

 trum) ; more rarely large, reniform or subcucullate, inflated plaited, in- 

 cluding flowers (Ostryodium) ; bractlets (Tropical Asia, Africa, and 

 Australia 9 ). 



III. GALEGE.E. 



52. Galega T. — Flowers irregular resupinate ; receptacle scarcely 

 dilated into a very short slightly glandular cup. Calyx gamose- 

 palous, scarcely perigynous ; teeth or lobes 5, short, nearly equal, 

 valvate or scarcely imbricated in aestivation. Corolla papilionaceous ; 

 standard obovate-oblong, shortly unguiculate ; wings oblong, 



1 This genus in most cases differs from Bliyn- 

 chosia by the habit of the leaves and stem, but 

 is scarcely to be properly distinguished by cha- 

 racters taken from the direction of the hilum 

 and insertion of the funicle. 



2 Species about 40. Aubt,., Gnian., t. 306 

 (Cytisus). — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, t. 572- 

 571 (Glycine).— A. Rich., Fl. Abyss. Tent., t. 

 44 (Rhynchosia). — Benth., Niger, 312 ; in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil, 207, t. 55, 56.— Kl., 

 in Pet. Moss., Pot., t. 6. — Hart. & Sond., Fl. 

 Cap., ii. 258. — Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., 

 ii. 223. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 226. — 

 \\'au>., Pep., i. 784; v. 540 ; Ann., ii. 431; iv. 

 566. 



3 PI. Coromand., iii. 44, t. 218, 219.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 351.— Endl., Gen., n. 6697.— B. II., 



Gen., 544, n. 235. — MHUngtonia Boxb., Mas., 

 ex Enbl. (nee Fl. Ind., i. 102). 



4 Red or purple, mixed with yellow. 



8 Destx., in Journ. Pot., i. 119, t. 4, fig. 2. — 

 DC, loc. cit., sect. ii. — Lourea Jaumk, in Pull. 

 Phil.,Aec. 1812 (nee Neck.). — Moghania Jattme, 

 in Ptesvx. Journ. But., i. 61. 



6 Wight & Aen., Prodr., i. 211. — Wight, 

 Icon., t. 327. 



7 DC, loc. cit,, sect. i. — Lepidocoma JuxoH., 

 Peise, ex Flora (1857), 503. 



s Ait., Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 349. — WIGHT, 

 Icon., t. 267, 26S, 326, 327, 329, 389, 390, W8, 

 987.— GuiLL. & Pekk., Fl. Sen. Tent, i. 212, t. 

 52 (Pl/yncltosia). — BENTH., in PI. Jvngh., i. 

 244; Fl. Austral., ii. 268.— Bakkr, in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr., ii. 230. — Walp., Ann., iv. 568. 



