Galactia.~\ Legtiminosce. 65 



bricate segm.; standard nearly 3 times as long as wings, keel 

 longer than wings, prolonged into a beak ; stam. diadelphous, 

 anth. uniform; ovary stalked, style beardless, stigma capitate; 

 pod ovoid, beaked, stalked, turgid, indehiscent ; seeds 1 or 

 2, large, with a carunculate hilum extending more than half 

 way round the margin. — Sp. 3 ; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. ruber, Vogel in Linncea, x. 585 (1836). 



Thw. Enum. 89. C. P. 1465. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 191. A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exp. t. 48. 



A herbaceous twiner, stems much branched, glabrous ; 1.- 

 rachis 2J-4 in., slender, stip. small, triangular, lflts. stalked, 

 2-1—4 m -> ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, apiculate, glabrous on 

 both sides, thin, stipels linear; fl. about 1 in. long, on slender 

 spreading ped. J-f in. long, numerous, forming a lax pyra- 

 midal raceme 3-5 in. long at end of long stout axillary 

 peduncles, bracts small, orbicular, one at base of ped. and 2 

 immediately beneath fl. ; cal. glabrous, gibbous at base above; 

 pod rather long-stalked, about 3 in., ovoid, inflated, with a 

 sharp curved beak and compressed margin, papery, yellow ; 

 seeds 1 or 2, 1 in., globular-ovoid, slightly compressed, smooth, 

 black, caruncle prominent, wing-like, red. 



Low country in intermediate region ; very rare. Galagedara 

 (Gardner) ; Kurunegala (Thwaites). Fl. June ; reddish-pink. 



Elsewhere found only in the Polynesian Islands, and recently in S. 

 Andaman I. 



29. GALACTIA, P. Br. 



Very slender twining herbs, 1. pinnately 3-foliolate, with 

 stipels, fl. small, in lax racemes with very slightly tumid nodes; 

 cal. with short campanulate tube and linear segm., the 2 upper 

 completely connate, the lowest largest ; pet. nearly equal ; 

 keel nearly straight ; stam. diadelphous ; style beardless, 

 stigma capitate, pod linear, flat, recurved. — Sp. 45 ; 2 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



G. tenuiflora, W. and A. Prod. 206 (1834). 



Glycine tenuiflora, Willd., Moon Cat. 53. Thw. Enum. 88. C. P. 1468. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 192. 



A herbaceous twiner, stems filiform, with scanty adpressed 

 hairs; l.-rachis 'j-i\ in., slender, pubescent, stip. minute, lflts. 

 small, [— 1| in., lanceolate or oval-lanceolate, subacute, apicu- 

 late, glabrous above, paler and silky-pubescent beneath ; fl. 

 small, few, shortly stalked, at end of very slender, lax, pubes- 

 cent axillary racemes, bracts small, caducous ; cal. slightly 

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