. -Rhynchosia.] LEGUMINOS#. 379 
226. Cylista Ait. 
A twining undershrub or shrub; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, 
dotted beneath with resinous glands; stipules lanceolate, de- 
ciduous; stipels long, subulate, persistent. Flowers axillary 
racemose, pedicels short; bracts membranous, hyaline, large, 
deciduous ; bracteoles 0. Sepals connate in a campanulate tube, 
the lobes obtuse, scarious, enlarging ; lowest largest, concave, the 
lateral pair much shorter than the two upper almost completely 
connate in an emarginate lip. Petals included, subequal in length ; 
standard suborbicular auriculate at the base; wings narrow; keel 
incurved, obtuse. Stamens 10, vexillary filament free, the others 
connate; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 1-ovuled ; style long 
‘ filiform ; stigma terminal capitate. Fruit a small, oblique pod, 
enclosed in the calyx, 1-seeded. Seed not strophiolate. 
466, Cyzista scartosa Ait.; F. I. iii, 820; F. B. 1. ii. 219. 
har; W. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
A woody climber. 
227. Rhynchosia Lour. 
Twinin or erect herbs or shrubs; leaves pinnately rarely sub- 
digitately 3-foliolate, dotted with resinous glands beneath ; stipules 
ovate or lanceolate ; stipels long subulate, or minute or 0, Flowers 
1 
bod, oblong or round, continuous or septate within. eds 2, rarely 
: Compressed orbicular or subreniform; hilum lateral short or 
oblong; funicle central ; strophiole present or 0. 
Calyx. a hrubby; 
rufescens. 
lobes broad, obtuse, distinctly enlarged; st 
Tound, turgid, downy seeds arillate .....------+-+-**- a scsens 
§yx-lobes narrow, lanceolate-acuminate or setaceous -— 
