JViynckosia.] Leguminosce. 8 1 



A woody twiner, with stout much-branched stems, more 

 or less covered with spreading hair, petiole \-\ \ in., hairy, 

 stip. lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, lflts. i|~3 in., rhomboid- 

 oval, acuminate, acute, glabrous or nearly so above, more or 

 less hairy on veins beneath, thin ; fl. f in. or more, ped. slender, 

 hairy, longer than cal., arranged in stalked axillary panicles 

 exceeding 1., bracts small, ovate, caducous ; cal. roughly pube- 

 rulous, lowest segm. very much longest ; pod about 2 in. by 

 | wide, nearly straight, with a rather long beak, turgid, covered 

 with long weak spreading glandular hair, with faintly marked 

 lines between the seeds ; seed 4 or 5, ovoid-reniform, mottled 

 black and brown. 



Low country ; rather common up to 2000 ft. Fl. Jan. ; purple. 

 Also in S. India. 



39. ERIOSEMA, DC. 



Small erect shrub, 1. l-or 3-foliolate, fl. axillary; cal. cam- 

 panulate, segm. equalling tube; keel-pet. shorter than wings; 

 stam. diadelphous ; style not bearded, stigma capitate ; pod 

 oblong, turgid ; seeds 1 or 2, oblique with linear hilum. — 

 Sp. 50; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. chinense, Vogel in Meyen Obs. Bot. 31 (1843). 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 219. 



A small erect slightly branched shrub with a tuberous root; 

 lflts. 1-2 in., linear-ligulate, with a few adpressed hairs above, 

 glaucous and densely pubescent beneath, stip. linear, per- 

 sistent; fl. 1 or 2, on short axillary ped.; cal. densely pilose; 

 pet. twice length of cal., pod | in., oblong, densely pubescent. 



Inserted on the authority of specimens in Hb. Kew from Col. Walker, 

 but without special locality. 



Also in E. Bengal, Burma, Malacca, China, Philippines, and Trop. 

 Australia, but not in Peninsular India. 



I have never met with this, which should be searched for. The 

 description is taken from the Fl. B. Ind. Walker's specimens are very 

 dwarf, and look as if grown in dry patana land. It is possible they may 

 have come from E. Bengal. 



40. RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. 



Twining, trailing, or rarely erect, 1. pinnatcly 3-foliolate, 

 lflts. usually with stipcls, gland-dotted beneath, fl. in axillary 

 racemes; cal. with upper segm. more or less connate; keel- 

 pet, not beaked ; stam. diadelphous ; pod short, flattened or 

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