Cylista. | "- LEGUMINOSR. 377 
Has.—Generally cultivated in several varieties all over Burma, up to 3,000 
ft. elevation. —Fl. Fr. C.S.—l.—SS. = o. 
CYLISTA, Ait. 
anthers uniform. Ovary almost sessile, 1-ovuled; style filiform with 
a terminal stigma. Pod enclosed in the enlarged scarious calyx, 
2-valved, 1-seeded—Twining, shrubs with pinnately 3-foliolate 
leaves, the leaflets resinose-dotted beneath. Flowers in axi 
and terminal racemes. Bracts membranous, deciduous ; bractlets 
none 
1. C, scariosa, Ait.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 219.—An extensive twining 
shrub, or rather undershrub, all parts more or less pubescent or 
puberulous; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on a pubescent 1-14 in. 
long petiole ; leaflets more or less ovate, the lateral ones obliquely 
80, acuminate, 1-2 in. long, on both sides (more so beneath) shortly 
pu nt ; flowers middling-sized, yellow with orange longitudinal 
veins, on 2-3 lin. long pubescent pedicels, forming shorter or © 
longer puberulous racemes in the axils of the leaves and often also 
at the end of the branchlets; calyx in flower about 4 in. long, in 
fruit doubly longer, puberulous ; corolla much shorter and enclosed 
im the calyx; pods quite enclosed in the scarious large calyx, about 
4 lin. long, falcate-oboyate, almost stalked, pubescent, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Frequent in the leaf-shedding forests, especi the mixed ones, but 
also in dese ~ Dat de etc., all over Pegu and Meube F close of RS. ; 
F »—1—SS.= ow. 
