Alysszcarpus.] LeguminoscB. 43 



2. U. hamosa, Wall. Cat. n. 5681 B. (1828). 



Thw. Enum. 85. C. P. 3590. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 156. Wight, Ic. t. 284. 



A small semi-shrubby perennial with slightly pubescent 

 branches ; l.-rachis about 1 in., hairy, stip. acuminate, hairy, 

 lflts. 1 or 3, the terminal 2-3^ in., the lateral (when present) 

 much smaller, all stipellate, shortly stalked, broadly oblong- 

 oval or subrotund, nearly glabrous above, paler and silky with 

 prominent veins beneath ; fl. small, on shaggy ped., arranged 

 in very lax, elongated, spicate, terminal racemes, bracts ovate, 

 acuminate, woolly ; cal. pubescent, lower segm. not elongated ; 

 pod of 4-7 flattened, glabrous, slightly wrinkled, greyish- 

 brown joints. 



Low country; rare. Badulla; Nilgala ; Gampola. Fl. Feb., March. 

 Also in India, Burma, and the Malay Archipelago. 



19. ALYSSICARFUS, Neck. 



Annual, semi-woody at base with many wiry diffuse stems; 

 1. i-foliolate, thick, with large scarious stip., fi. in leaf-opposed 

 or terminal racemes or spikes ; cal. deeply cleft with narrow 

 glumaceous segm.; keel-pet. obtuse, adnate to wings; stam. 

 diadelphous, anth. uniform, pod turgid, cylindrical, usually 

 moniliform, composed of few indehiscent 1 -seeded joints. — 

 Sp. 15; 9 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Pod pubescent, moniliform . . . . 1. A. MONILIFER. 

 Pod glabrous, or very nearly so. 



Pod not at all moniliform . . . . 2. A. VAGINALIS. 

 Pod more or less moniliform. 



Joints quite even 3. A. bupleurifolius. 



Joints reticulate-veined . . . . 4. A. longifolius. 



Joints transversely ribbed . . . . 5. A. RUGOSUS. 



1. A. monilifer, DC. Prod. ii. 353 (1825). 



Hedysarum moniliferum, L., Moon Cat. 54. Thw. Enum. 412. 

 C. P. 3613- 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 157 (not given for Ceylon). Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 52, f. 3. 



Stems numerous, slender, prostrate, much branched, spar- 

 ingly clothed with spreading deciduous bristly hair, 1. small, 

 £-£ in., on petiole about half as long, broadly oval, often cor- 

 date at base, very obtuse, glabrous above, paler, with promi- 

 nent venation and slightly bristly on the veins beneath, stip. 

 long, membranous, very acute ; fl. shortly stalked, about 

 4-10 in rather close, erect, shortly pedunculate racemes ; cal. 

 with scattered bristles, segm. very narrow ; pod. erect, monili- 



