Butea] 



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and calyx densely silky outside, keel obtuse, little curved, three times the 

 length of calyx. 



Kumaun, Nepal. Sikkim (rare). Assam. Kliasi hills. Fl. B..S. 



Cruddasia insignis, Praiu in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix. t. 34, Kachin hills, Upper 

 Burma. A slender climber, tawny pubescent; leaflets 5 , stipellate, 3-6 in. long; fl. 

 purplish, fasciculate on long axillary racemes; stamens monadelphous, anthers uni- 

 form, pod flat, linear 3 in. long. 



17. FLEMINGIA, Roxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 226. {MogJiania, St. Hil.; 



Taubert in Engler und Prantl, iii. 3, 375). 



Ercet shrubs, leaves digitately 

 3-foliolate or simple, gland dotted 

 below. Lowest pair of secondary 

 nerves basal. Stipules lanceolate, 

 prominently ribbed, deciduous. 

 Calyx tube short, teeth narrow 

 acuminate, the lowest often the 

 longest. Corolla barely exserted, 

 petals equal in length. Stamens 

 diadelphous, anthers uniform. Pod 

 oblong turgid, small, 1- or 2-seeded. 

 species '25: 3 in tropical Africa, 

 the rest Asiatic. The more common 

 species only are mentioned here. 



A. Leaves simple, bracts largo, 

 membranous, broadly ovate, folded, 

 each enclosing a short raceme, fre- 

 quently with sterile flowers. 



1. F. strobilifera, R. Br. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 267 ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 227. Vera. Easraut, Oudh ; 8e 

 luppya, Upper Burma. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 in. 



Fio. !ii).— Flemingia Chappar, Ham 



long, secondary nerves 4-10 pair, petiole \ in. to 1 in. 



This widely-spread and variable species. Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 60 (1898), 

 •130, divides mi' i. with the following characters. 



F.iiri xlnnliy ~<-\n r't. Iiii/li. bracts j— 1 in, tout/. 



(a) F. strobilifera, It. Br. Secondary nerves 8-10 pairs, nearly equal, bracts 1 in., 

 finely puberulous. Snbhimalayan tract from Kumaun eastwards, Assam, Khasi, and 

 Naga hills, Chittagong, Western Peninsula and Burma, Malaj Peninsula and Malay 

 A rchipelago. Fl. < '. S. 



(6) F. bracteala, Wighl Ic t.268; Kmv. P. PI. ii. 872. Second, nerves 1-6 pair, the 

 basal pair longest, bracts J in. s.'tiu hirsute with long hairs. Subhimalayan tract 

 from ( in rim :i I eastward, Behar, Western Peninsula, and Burma. Fl. ('. s. 



Low thrubs 1 -8ft. high. 



in F. frnticulota, Wall. ; Oollett, Simla Flora, fig. 11. Leaves ovate, with subcordate 

 base, bracts g in. lone, sparsely hirsute on nerves. N.W. Eimalaya from Simla to 

 Knmiimi. 5, 7. ft. PI. Aug. Oct. 



<J F. fluminalis, C. B. Clarke. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, base cuneate. Chitta- 

 gong hills, rocky river beds. Burma. 



The last-named appears i" be a distinct species, and /•'. frutiexdom is a well-marked 

 local form : stunted in 1 1 limate of the N.W. Himalaya. 



2. F. Chappar, 11am.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 227. Vera. Salpan, Hind. Beng.; 

 Kasraut, Oudh. 



Leaves broad-cordate, acuminate, 2-4 in. long and as broad as long, petiole 

 1 1 in. long. 



