1897.] D. Pram — Some additional Leguminosse. 435 



emarginate. Pod linear, 35 in. long, "5 in. wide, abruptly narrowed at tip, abruptly 

 recurved at pedicel, closely softly velvety. 

 A very distinct and handsome species. 



Se. Dunbaria Scortechinii Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 

 44 ; a slender climber, branches grey- velvety, leaflets exstipellate roun- 

 dish- rhomboidal cuspidate, subcoriaceous, sparsely puberulous above, 

 densely white-canescent below, flowers in long-peduncled rather dense 

 racemes, calyx-teeth short, corolla exserteu, pod recurved densely giey- 

 canescent, 6-8-seeded. 



Perak; Dijong, Scortechini n. 1841 ! Kunstler n. 908 ! Ulu Bubong, 

 Kunstler n. 10852 ! 



Stem slender firm slightly sulcate, 10-20 feet long. Petiole 2-3 in., stipules 

 small caducous ; leaflets 25 in. long, 2 in. wide, petiolules '15 in., minutely stipellate. 

 Racemes overtopping the leaves, on peduncles 4 in. long, grey- velvety like the stems ; 

 pedicels geminate '2 in. long. Calyx '3 in., lower tooth nearly as long as tube. 

 Porolla "5 in. long, dark-brown externally, pale-yellow within, standard '6 in. across, 

 orbicular entire. Pod linear, distinctly lineate, 2*5 in. long, '25 in. wide, narrowed 

 at tip, abruptly recurved at pedicel, closely softly grey-canescent. 



Also a very distinct species ; distinguished from Atylosia, as D. rostrata and 

 D. bella are, mainly by the pods not being depressed between the seeds. 



84. RHYNCHOSIA Lour. 



1. Rhynchosia rufescens DG. 

 Add to localities of F. B. I. : — 



Assam ; Brahmaputra Valley, common, Simons ! Jenkins ! Mann ! 

 Burma ; Katha, J. Anderson ! Mingyin Hills, Prazer ! 

 4. Rhynchosia aurea DG. 



In the Flora of British India this is made to include B. capitata DC. ; from the 

 field-botanist's point of view this is not entirely necessary as the two plants cannot 

 be confused. The diagnosis between the two forms is as follows : — 

 Racemes few-flowered, peduncle shorter than the leaves, naked ; 



standard striped longitudinally with purple veins ... ... B. aurea. 



Racemes many-floAvered, peduncles longer than the leaves, with a 



slender leafless abortive shoot springing from near the middle ; 



standard yellow without purple stripes ... ... ... B. capitata. 



It is of little consequence whether we follow De Candolle and Wight and 

 Arnott in treating the two as distinct species, or if we merely treat B. capitata as a 

 variety of B. aurea. But it will be observed that the name " aurea " is rather more 

 applicable to the plant to which it does not truly belong, than to the other. 



6. Rhynchosia suaveolens DG. 

 Add to localities of F. B. I. :— 



Upper Burma ; Kyaukse, Sagaing, Collen, etc., everywhere common, 

 King* s Collectors ! 



7. Rhynchosia avensis Benth. 



Excellent specimens of this plant have been recently received from May my o. 

 J, ii. 55 



