44 LeguminoSCE . [Alyssicarpus. 



form, with 2-6 turgid, globose joints, pubescent, not reticulate, 

 cal. a little longer than lowest joint. 



Low country ; rare. Colombo (Ferguson) ; Trincomalie (Glenie) ; 

 Maturata (Moon). 



Also in India, Burma, and Abyssinia. 

 I have not met with this. 



2. A. vaginalis, DC. Prod. ii. 353 (1825). Aswenna, S. 

 Burm. Thes. 104. Fl. Zeyl. n. 287. Hedysarum vaginale, L. Sp. 



PI. 746 ; Moon Cat. 54. Thw. Enum. 87. C. P. 1428. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 158. Burm. Thes. t. 49, f. 1. 



Stems numerous, long, 2-4 ft, ascending, branched, wiry, 

 glabrous, often rooting at base ; 1. variable, \-2 in., on petioles 

 about a third as long, varying from linear-lanceolate to 

 broadly oval, often cordate at base, acute, apiculate, glabrous 

 above, whitish with adpressed hair and reticulately veined 

 beneath, stip. scarious, as long as petiole, closely pressed to 

 stem, very acuminate straw-coloured, persistent ; fl. very 

 shortly stalked, clustered, racemes short on short peduncles ; 

 cal. slightly pubescent, segm. setaceous, with a few long 

 bristly hairs ; pod \- § in. of 4-7 joints, erect, cylindrical not 

 moniliform, apiculate, glabrous or nearly so, reticulate-venose, 

 cal. nearly as long as two lowest joints. 



Low country ; common, especially in the dry region. Fl. Dec, 

 January ; pinkish violet. 



Throughout the Tropics of the Old World. 



The habit is just that of Polygonum aviculare of Europe. A common 

 form with short rounded leaves is A. nummularif otitis, DC, to which 

 has been erroneously referred Hedysarum nummularifolium, L. (for which 

 see Indigofera echinata). Another form collected at Nilgala, in Uva, has 

 very rigid linear leaves and a more shrubby habit. 



3. A. bupleurifolius, DC. Prod. ii. 352 (1825). Kutiraivali, T. 



Thw. Enum. 87. C. P. 1427. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 158. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 194. 



Stems long, 1-3 ft., stiff, wiry, nearly glabrous with long 

 internodes ; 1. linear but varying to oblong or even broadly 

 oval below, very shortly stalked, acute, rigid, glabrous on both 

 sides, stip. thin, chaffy, soon falling ; fl. on very short ped., 

 usually 2 together, distantly placed, racemes very long, erect, 

 rigid, lax, spicate ; cal. -segm. lanceolate, acute, ciliate, much 

 imbricated ; pod shortly stalked, ^-f in., of 3-6 readily sepa- 

 rating joints, very slightly moniliform, strongly apiculate, 

 glabrous, without reticulations, cal. as long as lowest joint. 



Dry country; rare (?). Batticaloa; Bintenne; Mannar. Fl. Dec, 

 Jan.; pink. 



Throughout the E. Tropics, also in China and Mauritius. 



