Rhynchosia.] l. legtjminosj!. (J. G. Baker.) 223 



Oibs. Somb. Fl. 75. Oylista tomentosa, Roxh. Cor. PI. iii. t. 221 ; Hort. Sena. 

 55 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 319 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 410 ; Wall. Cat. 6585. Oylista albiflora, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1859. 



Jungles of the Westekn Peninsula and Ceylon. — Disteib. Mascaren isles, Zam- 

 besi-land. 



A robust woody climber, with stems clothed with short grey or brown pubescence. 

 Zeafiets subcoriaceous, flexible, softly pilose on both sides, 4-6 in. long, the end one 

 ovate-cuspidate, distinctly stalked ; stipellse large, setaceous, persistent. Bctcemes 

 close, distinctly peduncled, ^1 ft. long ; bracts large, roiind-ouspidate, caducous. 

 Cali/x membranous, J in. long, densely clothed with grey hairs ; tube short, teeth 

 ^-J in. broad. Corolla included, marcescent, bright red or white. Pod as long as 

 the calyx, deeply torulose, persistently grey-canescent ; seeds large, globose, shining, 

 violet-black. 



SliBeBN. 6. Fseudo-cajan, Servth. An erect shrub with narrow acumi- 

 nate calyx-teeth. Seeds without an ariUus. 



11. H. pseudo-cajan, Camb. in Jacq. Toy. Bot. 45, t. 65. R. incaua, 

 Bm/le MSS. 



Western Himalayas ; Hazaea to Gtiirwhal and Kcmaon, ascending to 9000 ft. 



An erect shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with virgate slender branches, clothed with per- 

 sistent fine grey tomentum. Petiole ^1 in. ; stipules minute, caducous ; leaflets 

 subcoriaceous, 1-2 in. long, exstipellate, grey-green, thinly canescent above, densely 

 persistently grey-canescent beneath, with raised veinlets ; the end one oblong-rhom- 

 boidal, distinctly stalked, apex deltoid, subacute. Flowers in short-peduucled close 

 corymbs ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx | in., densely grey-canescent ; 

 lowest tooth linear-setaceous, exceeding the tube; the others shorter, lanceolate. 

 Corolla ,^-| in. ; standard thinly silky. Pod oblong, an inch long, | in. broad, 

 straight, hard, persistently grey-canescent, subcompressed, bearing 1-2 seeds in the 

 upper half. 



Sthbgen. 6. Eurliynchosfa, W. Sr A. Twining herbs or shrubs with 

 acumioate calyx-teeth. Seeds without an arUlus. 



* Leq/kts small, subcoriaceous or membranous, vMUilly ohtwe. Pod much 

 exceeding the calyx (Oopisma, E. Meyer). 



12. Xt. minima, DC. I¥odr. ii. 385 ; stems and leaves nearly or quite 

 glabrescent, leaflets as broad as long deltoid in the lower half, racemes lax 

 elongated, calyx-teeth exceeding the tube, pod 3-4 times the calyx small. R. 

 medicaginea, DC. Prodr. ii. 386 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 238 ; Bah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 74. R. rhombifolia, DC. Prodr. loc. cit. R. prostrata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 

 5496. R. microphylla, Wall. Cat. 6497. R. nuda, DC. Prodr. ii.: 386 ; W. ^ 

 A. Prodir. 238; Wall. Cat. 6494. R. ervoidea, J>C. loo. cit., Glycine rhom- 

 bifolia, Willd. Sp. iii. 1066. Dolichos minimus, Linn. 8p. PI. 1020. D. medi- 

 oagiileus. Lam. Diet. ii. 297 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56. 



Everywhere in the plains, from the Himalayas, where it ascends to 4000 ft., to 

 Ceylon and Biema. — Dtsteib. Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, Cape, United States._ 



A twining or wide-trailing annual, with very slender stems, with only a little 

 short pubescence at the beginning. Stipules minute, lanceolate, caducous; leaflets 

 subcoriaceous or membranous, i-l in. broad and deep,' obtuse, usually exstipellate, 

 the end oiie distinctly stalked, mostly conspicuously gland-dotted beneath. Racemes 

 6-12-flowered, short-peduncled, usually exceeding the leaves ; bracts minute, linear ; 

 pedicels short. Calyx ^-^ in., pubescent ; lowest tooth setaceous, twice the tube. 

 Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod ^-f in. long, under J in. broad, glabrescent, 

 ^ turgid, slightly recurved, mostly 2-seeded. 



Vae. laxiflora; glabrous, leaflets larger lJ-2 in. long acute both the upper and 



