— Lornia.) _ LEGUMINOSA. 415 
580. Mgpicaco Lupuuina Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 90; E. D. M. 332. 
. N. Bengal. 
A diffuse, finely downy, trailing weed. 
581. Mupicaco penticunata Willd.; F. B. 1 it. 90; E. D. 
M, 329. M. polymorpha F. I. iii. 390. 
Behar; N. Bengal. 
A diffuse, almost glabrous weed. Vernac. Maina. 
260. Arachis Linn. 
Prostrate herbs ; leaves even-pinnate, leaflets 2-jugate ; stipules 
te; stipels 0. Flowers in a dense, axillary spike, sessile 
@ _ or shortly pedicelled in the axil of a leaf or a 2-auriculate bract ; 
slender tube ; lobes membranous, the igKeck slender, distinct, the 
4 upper connate in a lip. Petals inserted with the stamens 
at the apex of the tube; standard suborbicular; wings oblong, 
ong, filiform; stigma terminal, minute. Fruit a thick, oblong, 
reticulate, indehiscent lomentum, subtorulose but continuous 
within, burying itself to ripen underground. Seeds 1-3, irregularly 
ovoid ; cotyledons thick, fleshy. 
a. cHIs HypoGmA Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 161; 
Occasionally cultivated. 
An annual herb, ripening its pods underground, Beng. 
Belati-mung, chiné-badam, mat-kalai. The Ground 
Nut. 
E. D. A.-1261. 
261. Zornia Gmel. 
Annual herbs ; leaves digitately 4-foliolate or 2-foliolate 5 leaflets 
gland-dotted; stipules subfoliaceous, gland-dotted ; stipels 0 
Flowers in interrupted spikes or solitary, on terminal oF axillary 
peduncles ; bracts geminate, stipular, striate, larger than the true 
stipules ; bracteoles 0, Sepals 5, connate in a small subhyaline 
calyx; 2 upper lobes connate in a lip, lowest lobe oblong or lan- 
ceolate, as long as the upper, 2 lateral lobes small. Petals ex- 
serted ; standard suborbicular, clawed; wings obliquely oblong ; 
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