1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosoe. 439' 



56. Flemingia precox C. B. Clarke MSS. ; branches terete, leaflets 

 thin large acuminate glabrous, bracts linear firm hardly exceeding the 

 buds, calyx-tube ribbed glabrescent, teeth thinly silky. 



Chittagong ; Clarke 19916 ! Centl. Provinces ; Chanda, Duthio 



A tall shrub ; woody subtriquetrous stems quite glabrous. Stipulss medium ; 

 scariose, soon falling ; petiole 3-4 in., triquetrous, deeply sulcate, slightly winged, 

 leaflets subcoriaceous, 4-10 in. long, oblong narrowed to both ends, glabrous on both 

 surfaces except for the faintly puberulous prominent midrib and 12-24 pairs of 

 parallel oblique lateral veins beneath. Racemes dense, narrowly cylindric, 2-3 in. 

 long, bracts overlapping, rigidly scariose, the longest only '25 in. long, margins silky 

 otherwise glabrous ; pedicels very short. Calyx *25 in., teeth linear, the lowest twice 

 as long as the rest. Corolla as long as the lowest calyx-tooth. 



A very distinct species, nearest to F. stricta and with similar foliage, but with 

 totally different bracts. 



6. Flemingia Grahamiana W. 8f A. 



Add to localities of F. B. I.: — Burma; Shan Hills at Taungyi, 

 Collett ! Makhoye, etc., King's Collectors ! 



This is the plant alluded to under Flemingia congesta by Sir H. Collett and Mr." 

 Hemsley (J&urn. Linn. Soc. xxviii.) as a variety with clustered racemes. 



7. Flemingia congesta Boxb. 



This name in the Flora of British India is made to include a number of distinct 

 and quite unmistakeable species. Some of these are treated as distinct varieties, 

 others are simply merged in the type or in or other of these varieties. The follow-' 

 ing key may assist in distinguishing the plants themselves. 

 Erect woody undershrubs with rather tall stems : — 

 Racemes condensed shorter than the petioles : — 



Calyx teeth longer than the tube, leaves green beneath : — 



Bracts and calyx sparsely grey-silky ... ... F. congesta. 



Bracts and calyx adpressed tawny-pubescent ... ... F. prostrata. 



Calyx teeth shorter than the tube, leaves rusty beneath, the 



flowers very small ... ... ... ... F. ferruginea. 



Racemes elongated exceeding the petioles : — 



Leaves densely uniformly rusty-tomentose beneath, petioles 



not winged... ... ... ... ... F. Wightiana. 



Leaves pubescent only on the nerves beneath, petioles slight- 

 ly winged : — 

 Bracts and calyx densely brown-silky, leaves reddish beneath, 



racemes not so long as leaves ... ... ... F. latifolia. 



Bracts and calyx sparsely grey-silky, racemes rather lax as 



long as the leaves ... ... ... ... F. semialata. 



Low shrubs with a woody subterannean stem : — 



Bracts and calyx glabrous or with short close pubescence ... F. nana. 



Bracts and calyx with long silky pubescence ... ... F. sericans. 



[The last species given in the key is united by Mr. Baker with F. Wallichii and 

 not with F. congesta.^ 



