216 L. LiGUMTNOSJ). (J. G. Baker.) [Atylosia. 



SKstipellate, obtuse or subacute, triplinerved in the lower half, thinly grey-canescent 

 above, densely beneath, with usually only the main nerves raised. Peduncles short, 

 densely pubescent, 2-6-floweTed ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx i-J in., densely 

 grey-silky; teetji linear, the lowest twice as long as the tube. Corolla yellow, j-f in.; 

 keel abruptly incurved at the tip. Pod straight, distinctly lineate, J-1 in. by | in,, 

 clothed with fine spreading grey or pale brown silky hairs. — C. nervosum, Eoyle MSS., 

 is a form with thick leaves, with the veinlets raised on the under side. The descrip- 

 tions of Dolichos scardboBoides and medicagineus in Roxburgh, Flora Indica, iv. 315, 

 have been accidentally transposed. 



** Petiohde of the end leaflet dongated. 



14. A. platycarpa, Bemth. PI. Jwngh. 243 ; a herbaceous twiner, leaflets 

 exstipellate membranous roundish both surfaces finely pilose, flowers 1-2 pe- 

 dunoled, calyx-teeth long, coroUa litfie exserted, pod straight thinly pilose 

 6-7-seeded. Cantharospermmn ? distans, Royle MSS. 



Centeai, Eimai,atas, Gaewhai,, &c., alt. 1-8000 ft. 



Branches very slender, climbing or trailing, densely clothed with short spreading 

 grey hairs. Petioles 1—4 in ; stipules minute, linear, caducous ; leaflets round-cuspi- 

 date, 1-3 in. long and broad, greenish on both surfaces, paler beneath ; petiolule^^-| 

 in. Peduncles shorter than the petioles, suppressed at the end of the shoots, where the 

 leaves also are much rednced ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx f-J in., densely 

 pilose; teeth linear-setaceous. PMSaX, 1-lf in. by J in., distinctly lineate, clothed 

 with fine short deciduous spreading hairs. 



15. A. rostrata, Baker ; a woody climber, branches glabrescent, leaflets 

 exstipellate roundish subcoriaceous obscurely canescent below, flowers in long^ 

 peduncled lax racemes, calyx-teeth short, coroUa much exserted, pod bristly 

 recurved 8-10-seeded. 



CONCAN, Stocks. 



Branches firm, terete, at first minutely downy. Stipules minute, caducous ; petiole 

 1-3 in. ; leaflets as broad as long, 3-4 in. each way, green and glabrous above, nar- 

 rowed to a deltoid point, suddenly narrowed in the lower third or quarter ; petiolule 

 1 in. Bacemes overtopping the leaves, the flowers much the most showy in the 

 genus; pedicels^— | in. Cffli!y«f in., broadly campannlate, with only a few deciduous 

 bristles, all the teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla 1 in. long ; keel broad, beaked ; 

 limb of standard IJ in. broad. Pod linear, distinctly lineate, 2^-3 in. long, f in. 

 broad, narrowed at the tip, thinly clothed with stiff grey bristles with bulbous bases. 



16. A. barbata, Baker; a woody climber, branches densely pubescent, 

 leaflets roundish stipeUate subcoriaceous thinly shortly pubescent^ flowers in 

 long-peduncled racemes, calyx-teeth long, corolla little exserted, pod straight 

 densely pUose 5-6-seeded. A. goensis. Dais, in Journ. lAnn. Soc. xiii. 186. Dun- 

 baria barbata, Bemth. PI. Jwngh. 242. D. calycina, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 180. 

 Dolichos barbatus, Wall. Cat. 5548. D. omatus. Wall. Cat. 5561. Rhynchosia 

 vestita. Wall. Cat. 5505. Oajanus goensis, Dalz. in Kew Jmim. ii. 264 : Dak. 

 ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 73. 



Assam, Maetaban, Tenasseeim, Concan. — Disteib. Java. 



Branches firm, densely clothed at first with short spreading grey pubescence. Sti- 

 pules J in., lanceolate, caducous ; petiole 1-4 in. ; leaflets 3-4 in. broad and long, 

 cuspidate, broadly rounded at the base, green above, paler and greyer beneath, both 

 surfaces minutely permanently pubescent ; petiolule ^1 in. ; stipellse minute, setaceous. 

 Peduncles often overtopping the leaves ; racemes at filst close, finally 4-6 in. long, the 

 rachis densely pilose ; bracts roundish or ovate, with a cusp, shaggy, exceeding the buds ; 

 . pedicels J-J in. Calt/x J in., shaggy ; teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube. Standard 

 half as long again as the calyx ; keel equalling the calyx ^ in. broad. Pod 1^-2 in. 

 ty f in-, straight, densely clothed with long grey spreading hairs, narrowed to both 

 ends. 



