160" L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Alisycarpus. 



Yi in., 3-4-joiiited, marked -with an acute angle down the face, glabrous, with as 

 deep plications as in A. rugoms. 



8. A. pubescens, Zfiw in Wight Ic. t. 250; pedicels 0, calyx densely 

 clothed with long -wliite cottony hairs, joints of pod deeply reticulated. Bah. Sf 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 65. 



Plains of Conoan and Deccan. 



Stems ascending, 1-lJ ft., clothed -with short adpressed hairs. Leaves distant, 

 linear or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, hairy on the neryes below, strongly triplinerved. 

 Spikes close, 2-6 in. long, with a plumose rachis. Calyx f in. long ; teeth lanceolate- 

 setaceous, densely plumose, reaching down to the base. Pod 3-4-jointed, included in 

 the calyx, moniliform, glabrous; joints globose, under ^ in. thick, the yeins 

 honeycombed. 



9. A. bel^aumensis, Wight le. t. 92 ; pedicels elongated finely pubes- 

 cent densely ciliated, pod included finely pubescent reticulato-venose. Dalz. 8; 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 65. 



Plains of Concan, Dalzell, Sitchie. 



Stems 1-2 ft., clothed with dense short pubescence. Leaves casually 3-foliate, usu- 

 ally simple ; leaflets oblong or lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, subcordate, clothed with ad- 

 pressed short hairs beneath. Saoemes moderately close, reaching 6—9 in. long, 1^1^ in. 

 broad ; pedicels curved, ascending, downy ^-| in. Calyx -f-i in. ; teeth 5, lanceolate, 

 reaching down to the base. Pod 3— 4-jointed, subcompressed, scarcely moniliform, 

 ^ in. broad, marked on the face with fine raised honeycomb veins. 



Vae. 1. racemosus ; dwarf, difiiise, leaflets obovate-oblong under 1 in. long, racemes 

 with much fewer more distant flowers, calyx smaller, pod i in. broad slightly ex- 

 serted. A. racemosus, Benth. in Hohen. PL Ind. Or. No. 212 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. 

 t. 292.— Nilghiris, Schmidt, Wight. Eolampally hills, Coimbatore, alt. 2500 ft., 

 Beddome. 



48. DXECOPUS, Bennett. 



An annual herb. Leaves 1-foliolate. Flowers in dense racemes. Calyx-tuhe 

 campanulate ; teeth lanceolate, the two upper connate. Standard hroad ; keel 

 . incurved, obtuse. Stan^ns diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, 

 2-ovuled ; style inflexed, stigma minute capitate. Pod of one small oblong 

 reticulato-venose joint on a long stalk thrust down by the twisting of the top of 

 the pedicel so as to approach the rachis.— i-A single species. 



1. IH. nidulans, Bennett PI. Jav. Bar. 154, t. 32 ; Waljj. Bep. v. 524. 

 Uraria retrofracta, WaU. Cat. 5678. 



HiUy woods of Biema, IiIaetaban and Tenassebim. — Distrib. Malay isles. 



An erect annual, 1 ft. or more high, with numerous slender spreading naked 

 branches. Leaves simple ; leaflet broader than long, membranous, glabrous, pale green, 

 venose, truncate or faintly emarginate ; base subcordate ; petiole filiform, articulated 

 and minutely stipellate at the tip. Flowers in dense oblong peduncled terminal heads 

 1 in. or less long ; pedicels fascicled, A-| in. long, finely downy, exceeding the seta- 

 ceous bracts. Calyx and coroUa very small. Pod with a stalk 3^ times as long as- 

 itself. 



49. OUGEXNXA, Benth. 



Tree. ' Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Flowei-s in fascicled axUlary racemes. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth small, upper 2 subconnate. Corolla much ex- 

 serted ; standard broad ; keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile, linear, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, stigma minute capi- 

 tate. Pod linear, flat, smooth, formed of 2-5 large more or less distinct joints. 

 — ^DlsiElB. A single endemic species. 



