372 - LEGUMINOSE. [ Flemingia. 
latter orbicular-reniform, usually rounded or obsoletely acute, 3-3 
in. long, sparingly and softly hairy, but not ciliate, membranous 
and nerved ; calyx 2 lin. long, puberulous, the lobes lanceolate, acu- 
minate ; corolla glabrous, about 3 lin. long or somewhat longer; 
pods oblong to ovoid, }-3 in. long, 1- or 2-seeded, thinly pubescent. 
Has.—Common in all leaf-shedding forests and savannahs, all over Burma 
from Chittagong and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. R.S. & C.S.; Fr. 
H.S.—L—SS.= oo. . 
3. F. bracteata, Wight.—An erect branched shrub, 1 to 3 ft. 
high, the branches almost terete, tawny pubescent ; stipules stiff, 
subulate, striate, up to 3 in. long, persistent ; leaves 1-foliolate, on 
a strong pubescent petiole 2-3 lin. long, ovate to ovate- and linear- 
lanceolate, more or less acuminate, 2-4 in. long, almost glabrous 
above, beneath, especially along the nerves, thinly and shortly pubes- 
cent; flowers minute, pale-purple, very shortly pedicelled, solitary 
or in poor fascicles in the axils of the large complicate bracts, form- 
ing tawny pubescent large bracted racemes in the axils of the leaves 
and at the end of the branchlets; bracts broadly reniform, more or 
less retuse with a mucro, thinly hairy and distinctly ciliate, char- 
us and nerved, $ to % in. long; calyx a line long or a little 
longer, velvety-puberulous, the lobes lanceolate, acute; corolla 
glabrous, 2 lin. long ; pods about 3 lin. long, ovoid, puberulous. 
Has.—Frequent in all leaf-shedding forests, especially the lower mixed and 
savannah ones, all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Pegu.—Fi. 
close of R.S. & C.S.; Fr. H.S.—L— 
4. Fl. paniculata, Wall.; Hf. Ind. Fl. ii. 227.—An erect 
branched shrub of a few feet in height, the branches terete, spat- 
ingly pubescent; leaves 1-foliolate, on a slightly pubescent petiole 
ing in length from 3 to } in., ovate, more or less cordate at the 
3- or 5-nerved base, shortly acuminate, thin chartaceous, 2-3 in. long, 
corolla glabrous, 8 lin. long or longer; pods oblong, } an in. long, 
puberulous, usually 2-seeded. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. C.S. 
__ 5. F, lineata, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 228.—An_ erect: branched 
shrub, 1 to 4 ft. high, the branchlets almost terete and shortly but 
_ thinly pu t; leaves digitately 3-foliolate, on a slightly pubes- 
_ ent petiole 3-} in. long; leaflets lanceolate, the lateral ones some 
_ what obliquely so, the terminal more obovate-lanceolate, VeTY 
