86 LeguminOSCB. \Flemingia. 



dotted with red glands, tube very short, segm. linear attenuate, 

 two upper connate for less than half way ; pod (immature) 

 nearly f in., tapering to point, clothed with long hair, gland- 

 dotted, 2-seeded. 



Dry region ; very rare. As yet, only found at Tissamaharama near 

 Hambantota. 



Fl. December. 



Also in Peninsular India and in W. Trop. Africa. 



41. FLEMINGIA, Roxb. 



Erect shrubs, 1. 1- or palmately 3-foliolate, fl. small; cal. 

 with a short tube and long narrow segm., 2 upper not connate, 

 lowest one the longest ; pet. equal, keel obtuse or slightly 

 beaked; stam. diadelphous, style beardless, stigma capitate; 

 pod small, inflated, usually 2-seeded ; seed without an aril. — 

 Sp. 14 ; 1 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. unifoliolate 1. F. strobilifera. 



L. 3-foliolate 



Fl. in spreading panicles 2. F. LINEATA. 



Fl. in dense racemes 3. F. congesta. 



1. F. strobilifera, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 350 (1812). 

 Hampinna, S. 



Herm. Mus. 53. Fl. Zeyl. n. 289. Hedysarum strobiliferum, L. Sp. PI. 

 746. Moon Cat. 54. Thw. Enum. 92. C. P. 697. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 227. Fl. Zeyl. t. 3. Wight, Ic. t. 267. 



A shrub, 4-6 ft. high, bark smooth, grey, branches densely 

 pubescent with adpressed hair; 1. i-foliolate, petiole \ in., 

 hairy, stip. small, caducous, lflts. 9-5 in., ovate, often cordate 

 at base, acuminate, subacute, glabrous above, finely pubescent 

 and paler beneath, with lat. veins parallel and very prominent; 

 fl. small, on very short ped., 2-4 together in axils of and 

 completely concealed by very large conduplicate bracts which 

 are roundish, rather broader than long, f-i in. by 1-1 \ in., 

 deeply cordate at base, obscurely cuspidate, membranous, 

 reticulately veined, finely pubescent outside, arranged dis- 

 tichously and much overlapping on either side of a slender 

 zigzag hairy rachis (but all turned upwards) at the end of 

 short lateral branches; cal. pubescent; pod Jin. by ^in. wide, 

 apiculate, densely downy, completely concealed in the per- 

 sistent hooded bracts ; seeds 2 or 1, small, mottled. 



Low country; rather common and locally abundant. Fl. July, August; 

 white or purple. 



* Commemorates Dr. John Fleming, F.R.S., 'Physician-General in 

 Bengal.' Died 1815. 



