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trifoliolate; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, shortly acuminated; roughish 

 above, pubescent and covered with wax-coloured glands beneath ; 

 stipules ovate-acuminated ciliated, stipels setaceous ; racemes 

 axillary, about 6-flowered, as long as the leaf, flowers yellow ; 

 legumes linear oblong, narrow at both ends, clothed with long, soft 

 viscid hairs, 5-seeded, obliquely constricted between the seeds. 

 Near Kulna, in the Warree country. 



2. GCENSIS, Dalz. loc. cit All over villous, with soft yellow 

 hairs; stem twining; leaves pinnately trifoliolate; leaflets ovate 

 rounded, shortly acuminated, with waxy-looking glands beneath ; 

 stipules triangular acuminated ; stipels setaceous ; racemes axillary 

 and terminal, peduncled, many-flowered, 2 or 3 times longer than 

 the leaf. At the base of Chorla Ghaut. 



3. C GLANDULOSUS. Stems round, twining, the whole plant 

 covered with a close, short tomentum, yellowish or whitish ; leaves 

 long-petioled, pinnately trifoliolate; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, the 

 lateral ones acute, all as broad as long, covered on the underside 

 with brown resinous glands ; flowers large, yellow racemed, in pairs ; 

 raceme peduncled, axillary or terminal, solitary, longer than the 

 leaf; pedicels half an inch long, retrofracted in fruit; legume linear, 

 nearly straight hispid, with yellow bristly hairs, pointed, 7 to 8- 

 seeded, obliquely constricted between the seeds ; calyx with the 

 upper lip entire. At Malwan and Wagotun, Southern Concan. 



NOTE. The species of this genus may be known by a sinus near the bottom 

 of the alase. 



22. CANTHAROSPERMUA1, W. and A. 



1. PAUCIFLORUM, W. and A. Prod. 255. Biennial, twining; 

 leaflets obovate rugose; peduncles shorter than the petiole, few- 

 flowered ; flowers small, yellow ; legume linear, softly hairy, 

 transversely constricted between the seeds, 3 to 8-seeded. Very 

 common in the Concan. Syn. Cajanus scarabseoides, Pet. Thouan, 

 Graham in Wall. L. Dolichos scarabaeoides, Linn. sp. 1020; D 

 medicaginens, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 315 (as to description and charac- 

 ter) ; Rhyncosia scarabajoides, DC. Prod. 2, 387 ; R biflora, DC. 

 loc. cit; Ltizolobium scarabreoides, Spr. st/st. iii, 253; Roxburgh 

 says the "callosities of the banner are very sharp"; W. and A. that 

 there are no callosities. Roxburgh also says "the calyx has the 

 upper part entire"; W. and A. that it is "split at the apex." 

 Bent hum considers this genus the same with Atylosiaof W. and A. 



23. LEUCODICTYON, Dalz. 



1. MALVENSIS, Walp. Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 264. A 

 twining plant; stems several, filiform, from a woody root; leaves 

 lOc 



