Flemingia^ LegumttlOSCB. 8 J 



Also in the Himalayas, E. Bengal, Burma, Malacca, Malay Is., and 

 Philippines. 



The heads of persistent membranous pale-brown bracts are very 

 suggestive of hop-cones or those oiCarpimis. The plant has a first-sight 

 resemblance to Dcsmodiwn pulckellum, and the fl. are arranged in much 

 the same way. Intermediate stages between the ordinary foliage leaves 

 and the hood-like bracts are often met with at the base of the flowering 

 branchlets. 



2. F. lineata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 (1814). 

 Thw. Enum. 92. C. P. 1423. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 228. Wight, Ic. t. 327. 



A small erect shrub, young branches with adpressed 

 pubescence ; 1. 3-foliolate, rachis about §■ in. much furrowed 

 above, stip. conspicuous, long-acuminate, scarious, subper- 

 sistent, lflts. very shortly stalked, i|-2 in., lanceolate-oblong, 

 narrowed at base, subacute, glabrous above, paler and very 

 finely silky especially on the very oblique veins beneath, 

 rigid ; fl. small, on very short ped., in small clusters, arranged 

 in pedunculate erect spreading axillary panicles shorter than 

 leaves, cal. puberulous, segm. linear-lanceolate ; pod \ in., 

 oblong-ovoid, compressed, blunt, minutely apiculate, sparingly 

 pubescent. 



Dry region; rare. Batticaloa (Thwaites); N. Prov. (Gardner). Fl. 

 Feb. 



Also in India, Malaya, and N. Australia. 



3. F. cong*esta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 (1814). 

 Thw. Enum. 92. C. P. 2663. 



FL B. Ind. ii. 228. Wight, Ic. t. 390. 



An erect shrub, 3 or 4 ft, young branches angular, 

 adpressed-hairy, 1. 3-foliolate, large, rachis 3-4 in., sulcate 

 above, stip. caducous, lflts. on short densely hairy stalks, 5-7 in., 

 narrowly rhomboid-lanceolate, rounded at base, tapering to 

 long acute apex, glabrous above, sparingly adpressed-hairy 

 beneath ; fl. on very short ped., crowded in dense, oblong, 

 sessile racemes often 2 or 3 from same axil, rachis silky, bracts 

 small, lanceolate, acuminate, silky, soon falling ; cal. densely 

 adpressed-hairy, segm. linear-setaceous ; pod g in., oblong- 

 ovoid, blunt, inflated, apiculate, very finely pubescent. 



Var. /?, semialata, Baker. F. scmialaia, Roxb., Moon Cat. 54; 

 Thw. Enum. 92. C. P. 256, 3584. Wight, Ic. t. 326. 



Rachis margined with a narrow leafy wing ; racemes 

 elongated. 



Low country; rather common. The type in Ambagamuwa, near the 

 eliya River. Var. 0, Colombo; Badulla ; Batticaloa. Fl. Feb., 

 March; pale pink. 



