78 Leguminosce. {Atylosia^ 



Low country to 2000 ft.; especially in the dry region. Batticaloa; 

 Hantane; Peradeniya; Jaffna. Fl. Jan., Feb.; bright light crimson-pink 

 (not ' yellow,' as stated in Fl. B. Ind.). 



Also in India. 



37. ATYX.OSXA, W.andA. 



Erect bush or twining herbs, 1. 3-foliolate, lflts. without 

 stipels, dotted beneath, fl. in axillary racemes ; cal. with upper 

 segm. completely connate, lower ones nearly equal or lowest 

 longest; pet. persistent, keel not beaked ; stam. diadelphous ; 

 pod compressed, straight, few-seeded, strongly compressed 

 between seeds by transverse lines ; seed with a small white 

 2-lipped aril round hilum. — Sp. 20; 16 in FL B. Ind. 



Erect 1. A. Candollei. 



Twining 



Cal.-segm. triangular 2. A. albicans. 



Cal.-segm. linear acuminate 



Pod velvety 3. A. rugosa. 



Pod with long soft hair 4. A. SCARABiEOIDES. 



1. A. Candollei, W. and A. Prod. 257 (1834). Et-tora, S. 

 Thw. Enum. 91. C. P. 55. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 212. Wight, Ic. t. 754. 



An erect much-branched bush, 2-4 ft, branches stout 

 furrowed, densely clothed with silky hair; 1. numerous, rachis 

 f-f in., densely silky, stip. very small, caducous, lflts. very 

 shortly stalked, i-2| in., linear-lanceolate, acute, finely pu- 

 bescent above, densely felted with white or yellow silky 

 tomentum beneath, thick with reticulate veins very prominent 

 beneath, terminal one the largest ; fl. rather large, over f in., 

 ped. silky, \ in. long, solitary or 2 articulated on top of erect 

 short axillary peduncle, and enclosed in bud by two large 

 rounded, silky bracts which fall before fl. open ; cal. very silky,, 

 segm. linear-lanceolate, lowest longest ; pod 1^— 1^ in., by f in. 

 wide, straight, with a short deflexed beak, 3-5 -seeded, covered 

 with dense spreading velvety golden-brown pubescence; seeds 

 slightly compressed, black. 



Montane zone on the patanas 3-6000 ft.; very common. Fl. all the 

 year ; bright gamboge yellow, standard red on back. 



Also on the Nilgiris. 



An ornamental shrub, occurring (like broom or furze) gregariously on 

 the open patanas. 



2. A. albicans, Benth. Plant. Jungh. 243 (1853). 

 Thw. Enum. 91. C. P. 2783. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 215. 



