Dunlaria.] l. LEGDMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) 219 



Tenasskeim, Kure. 



A perennial twiner, with fine yellowish puhescence. Petiole ^1 in.; leaflets 

 puterulbus, pale beneath. Pedicels pubescent, ^ in. Galj/x ^ in., with adpressed 

 yellowish pubescence; teeth lanceolate. Corolla middle-sized. Pod li-2 in. by 

 ^ in., flat, acuminate, many-seeded ; stalk | in. — Ex Kurz loc. cit. 



7. D. circlnalis, Baker; stems woody slender, leaflets thin broad- 

 ovate acute, flowers many in close subsessile racemes, pod distinctly stalked 

 clothed with fine spreading hairs. Phaseolus circlnalis, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 5594, ex parte. Atylosia circlnalis, Benth. PI. Jungh. 244. 



MoxiLMEiN, Griffith. Tenassbrim, Heifer. Assam, Wallich. 



A slender woody climber, with terete glabrescent branches, finely grey-downy at 

 first. . Stipules minute, caducous ; leaflets flexible, green, glabrescent above, finely 

 grey-downy beneath, obscurely stipellate ; the end one acuminate, distinctly stalked, 

 1-1 J in. long and broad, broadly rounded at the base. Bacemes 6-10-flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves ; pedicels short, densely grey-downy. Calyx \ in. ; lowest 

 tooth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla litUe exserted ; keel with a recurved 



beak. Pod incurved, 2-3 in. by | in., 8-10-seeded, with a stalk J-J in. long. 



The Walliehian specimen includes the pod of a true Phaseolus. 



82. CirX.ISTA, Ait. 



, A climhing shrub. Leaves 3-foliolate. Flmoers racemed. Calyx-tube cam- 

 panulate ; teeth scariose and persistent, the lowest much the largest boat- 

 shaped, the two side ones smaller than the two upper. Corolla enclosed in 

 the calyx, the petals equal in length ; keel much incurved, truncate. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessUe, 1-ovuled ; style long, filiform, 

 stigma capitate. Pod small, oblique, oblong, enclosed in the calyx. — Disirib. 

 The only species. Differs from Bhynchosia only by its peculiar calyx. 



1. C. scarlosa, Ait.; DC. Prodr. ii. 410: Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 92: 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 320 ; Wall. Cat. 5586 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 269 ; Wight Ic. t. 1597 ; 

 Dala. 8; Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 74. 



Woods of CoNCAN-, Deccan, Canaea, and Orissa. ' 



A woody twiner, with slender finely downy branches. Leaflets minutely 

 stipellate, subcoriaceous, ovate or subrhomboidal, acute, 2-4 in. long, thinly grey- 

 downy above, densely downy below. Flowers in copious distinctly-peduncled lax or 

 dense racemes ; bracts large, membranous, ovate, caducous ; pedicels short, densely 

 pubescent. Corolla yellowish-red, ^ in. long. Calyx finally l-lj- in. long, the 

 scariose conspicuously veined lower lip 1 in. broad. 



83. ERXOSEMA, DC. 



Shrubs or herbs, mostly suberect, with 1-3-foliolate leaves. Flowers ra- 

 cemed or axillary. Calyx campanulate ; teeth 5, as long as the tube. Corolla 

 distinctly exserted ; limb of standard rotmdish, auricled at the base ; wings and 

 slightly beaked keel shorter. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 sessile, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, 

 1-2-seeded ; seeds oblique, the funiculus attached to the extremity of a linear 

 hilum. — DiSTKlB. Species about 50, mostly Trop. African and American. 



1. XS. cbinense, Vogel, PI. Meyen. 31. Orotalaria tuberosa, Samilt. in 

 Don Prodr. 241. Ehynchosia virgata, Orah. in Wall. Cat. 5503. B. Grabami, 

 Wall. Cat. 5504. Pyrrotrichia tuberosa, W. 8f A. Prodr. 238. 



Himalayas from Kpmaon and Guewhal to Khasia and Assam, ascending to 



