i.] L. lEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 115 



•Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 62. jEsfehynomene bispinosa, Jiioj', Je. t. 664. '^. spinulosa, 

 Jloxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 333. Coronilla aculeata, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1147. 



Plains from the West Hisialatas to Ceilon and Slam. — Distrib, Cosmopolitan 

 in tropics of old world. 



Sufeuticose, reaching several feet high, the branches and leaf-rachises armed with 

 small weak prickles. Leaves reaching ^1 ft. long; leaflets glabrous, 41-81, 

 ■smaller and narrower than in S. iBgyptiaca. Racemes laxly 3-6-flowered, distinctly 

 pedunded. Calyx ^ in., glabrous. Corolla ^ in., pale yellow ; standard dotted with 

 red. Fad 6-9 in. by ^ in., straight or rather falcate, beaked with the persistent 

 style. ' 



Vab. 1. palvdosa ; more robust, unarmed, leaves glabrous. JE. paludosa and uligi- 

 nosa, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 333-4. 



Vab. 2. serieea ; branches robust unarmed, leaflets more or less silky even when 

 mature, racemes subsessile. S. serieea. DC. Prodr. ii. 266 — Plains of Ceylon, Ferqus- 

 fon, CP., 3850. 



Vae. 3. camiabina ; branches obscurely muricated, racemes subsessile 3-4- 

 ■flowered, corolla and calyx smaller, the former not more than J in. long. S. canna- 

 bina, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 215 ; W.^ A. Prodr. 216 ; Wall. Cat. 6657. iEschynomene 

 ■cannabina, Setz. Obs. v. 26. Coronilla eannabina, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1148. S. aflSnis, 

 Schrad. ; DC. loc. cit. 



3. S< procumbens, W. 8; A. Prodr. 215 ; annual, obacuiely murieated, 

 pod short flexible torulose not twisted. Dalz. 8^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 62. .lEscliy'^ 

 nomene procumbens, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 337. ^. diffusa, Boxb, MSS. 



Plains of the Westeen Peninsttla. 



Branches lower and more slender than in the last. Leaves 2-3 in. long ; ^leafletB 

 ^1-41, linear-oblong, glabrous, glaucoiis. Flowers solitary or geminate, without a 

 common peduncle. Calyx i in. long. Corolla 3 times the calyx. Pod straight, 2-3 in. 

 long, j5 in. thick, 15-20-seeded, distinctly torulose. 



SmseECf. 2. Ag'ati, 2)e«v. i^Zo?«er« large ; bud falcately recurved. 



4. S. g^randiflora, Pers. Si/n. ii. 316 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 86 ; Brand. Fm: 

 Flor. 137. .lEscbynomene grandiflora, Linn. 8p. 1050 ; Ro.vh. Fl. Ind. iii. 331. 

 Agati grandiflora, Besv. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 266 ; Wall. Cat. 6654 ; W. Sf_ A. P-odr. 

 215. Coronilla grandiflora, Willd. Sp. iii. 1145 — Rheede Sort. Mai. i. t. 51. 



Piims of the Western Peninsula, a doubtful native. — Disteib. Mauritius to N. 

 Australia, but often cultivated. 



A short-lived soft-wooded tree, 20-30 ft. high, with virgate terete branches. 

 Leaves \-l ft. long; leaflets 41-61, linear-oblong, pale green, glabrous. Flowers 

 2-4, in short axillary racemes. Calyx 1 in. deep, glabrous, shallowly 2-lipped. Corolla, 

 3-4 in. deep, white or, in JE. coccinea, Desv. ; DC. loc. cit. (:Sschynomene coccinea, i.), 

 more or less deeply tinged with red. Pod 1 foot or more long, falcate, firm, not toru- 

 lose, the sutures much thickened. 



24. CABACrAlf A, Lam. 



Usually low shrubs, with, the leaf-rachises and the stipules usually spine- 

 tipped and hardened, persistent from year to year. Calyx campaniUate, placed 

 very obliquely on its pedicel, produced on the upper side ; teeth 6, deltoid or 

 lanceolate. Corolla much exserted ; standard broad, with reflexed edges ; keel 

 not at all beaked, usually as long as the wings and standard. Stamens diadelph- 

 oufl; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incuryed, 

 glabrous, stigma minute terminal. Pod linear, turgid, not at all torulose, con- 

 tinuous, but sometimes pubescent within. — Disieib. Species about 16, spread 

 "widely through Central Asia. 



