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28. CYANOSPERMUM, W. and A. 



1 . TOMENTOSUM, W. and A. Prod. 259. Suffrutescent, twining, 

 tomentose ; leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets broadly ovate, acute ; racemes 

 axillary, simple, short ; flowers yellow ; legume of one or two 

 spherical lobes, about as long as the calyx ; seeds of a beautiful 

 dark-blue, polished, round. Chorla and Parwar Ghauts; rather 

 rare. Syn. Cylistatomentosa, Roxb. Fi Ind. iii, 319 ; Cor. t. 221 ; 

 Wight lllust. t. 81. Belgaum jungles; Ghauts south of Beema- 

 sunker. 



29. FLEMINGIA, Roxb. 



1. CONGESTA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 340. Shrubby, erect, young 

 parts villous ; leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, pubescent 

 beneath, dotted with numerous black glands ; racemes dense, oblong, 

 shorter than the petiole, almost sessile, aggregated ; flowers nume- 

 rous, striated with orange and purple ; legume the length of the 

 calyx, subreniform, 2-seeded. Warree jungles. Native name 

 " Dowdowla." Syn. Crotalaria macrophylla, Willd. sj>. PI iii, 982 ; 

 Rhyncosia crotalarioides, DC. Prod. 3, 387. 



2. STROBILIFERA, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. iv, 350; DC. Prod. 

 2, 351. Shrubby, erect, leaves simple-ovate, dotted with minute 

 glands beneath ; racemes terminal or axillary ; bracteas large, reni- 

 form folded, imbricated in two opposite rows ; flowers pure white, 

 enclosed within the bracteas ; legume of one joint, pubescent, I to 2- 

 seeded. Very common. Syn. Hedysarum strobiliferum, Linn. sp. 

 1053 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 350 ; Zornia strobilifera, Pers. Syn. ii, 319. 



3. TuBEROSA,Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii,p. 34. Root tuberous, 

 branched from the base ; branches prostrate, very long, filiform ; 

 leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets narrow lanceolate acute, lateral leaflets 

 unequal-sided ; stipules linear subulate, cuneate at the base, 

 caducous ; racemes axillary dichotomously panicled, few-flowered, 

 longer than the leaf; flowers twin on the apex of the peduncle ; 

 legume glabrous, as long as the calyx, 2-seeded ; flowers lilac. 

 Malvvan district; flowers in September. 



4. PROCUMBENS, R. Wight Ic. t. 987. Herbaceous, diffuse, 

 procumbent hairy; leaves palmately trifoliolate; middle leaflet 

 obovate, lateral ones ovate, slightly unequal at the base, hairy above, 

 nearly glabrous beneath ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; flowers 

 capitate ; legume shorter than the calyx, usually 1 -seeded. 

 Phoonda Ghaut. The flowers are of a dark, dull purple colour. 



30. PYCNOSPORA, Br. 



- 1. NERVOSA, W. and A. Prod. 197. Suffrutescent, diffuse, 

 branched ; leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets cuneate obovate, paler and 



