224 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [^Bhynchosia. 



lower half subdeltoid, racemes laxer 2-4 or even 6 in. long. K. laxiflora, Camb. in 

 Jacguem. Voy. Bot. 44, t. 54. B. CandoUei, Deom. ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 170. E. 

 tenuicauHs, Wall. Cat. 5495. B. filicaulis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5502. Doliehos 

 fatmensis, Hochst. ^ Steud. in Schimp. Arab. Exsic. No. 873. 



13. It. nXemnoniai DC. Prodr. 386 ; stems and leaves clothed with 

 minute persistent grey pubescence, leaflets as broad as long obtuse deltoid in the 

 lower half, flowers few in lax racemes, calyx-teeth exceeding the tube, pod 

 small 3-4 times the calyx. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 625. R. pulverulenta, StocJcs 

 in Hook. Kew Joum. iv. 147; Boiss. Fl. Orient, loe. cit. Glycine Memnonia, 

 Belile Fl. ^gypt. 100, t. 38, %. 3. 



SciNDE, near Kurrachee, Stocks. — Distbib. Arabia, Trop. Africa. 

 Scarcely more than a variety of the preceding, from which it only differs in 

 vestiture. 



14. R. velutina, W. Sr A. Prodr. 233 ; young branches minutely downy, 

 leaflets thinly grey-canescent beneath as broad as long obtuse deltoid in the 

 lower half, racemes 2-4-flowered cymose, calyx-teeth equalling or exceeding 

 the tube, pod middle-sized 4r-5 times the calyx. 



NlLGHlEIS. 



Stems wide-trailing, rather stouter than in B. ntinima, glabrescent when mature. 

 Stipules minute, linear, caducous ; leaflets snbcoriaceous, ^-Ij in. long and broad, 

 green, glabrous above, persistently thinly grey-canescent beneath, exstipellate, the 

 end one distinctly stalked. C^mes 2-4-flowered, shorter than the leaves; pedicels 

 ^— J in. Calyx |-^ in., finely silky ; lowest tooth linear-setaceous, twice the tube, 

 the others much shorter, lanceolate. Corolla J in. Pod much recurved, l-lj in. by 

 f in., glabrescent, 2-seeded, narrowed very gradually to the base. 



15. Xb. pilosa, Wall. Cat. 6499 ; branches - and leaves clothed with long 

 fine spreading grey hairs, leaflets oblong rounded at the base, racemes short 

 few-flowered, calyx-teeth with long setaceous points exceeding the tube. 



BiBMA ; banks of the Irrawaddi at Segaen, Wallich. 



Stems very slender, twining. Stipules linear, ^ in., subpersistent ; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, grey-green above, grey beneath, clothed on the edge and below with con- 

 spicuous long fine hairs, exstipellate, the end one oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at 

 both ends, 1^-2 in. long. Bacemes like those of B. minima, the buds like dense 

 tufts of silky hairs ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracts minute, lanceolate. 

 Calyx J in., all the teeth with long setsiceous pdints. Corolla half as long again as 

 the calyx. Pod unknown. 



16. R. Falconer!, Baker; branches and leaves clothed with short 

 spreading grey hairs, leaflets ovate-oblong rounded at both ends, racemes long- 

 peduncled lax few-flowered, lowest calyx-tooth linear exceeding the tube, pod 

 middle-sized 4r-5 times the length of the calyx. 



GnEWBAi, Falconer. 



Stems wide-trailing, slender, densely clothed with short firm deflexed grey hairs. 

 Stipules ^-^ in., subpersistent, linear or lanceolate; petiole 1-2 in.; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, 1-1^ in. long, rounded to both ends, greenish beneath, thinly clothed on 

 both sides with persistent moderately firm grey hairs, exstipellate, the end one dis- 

 tinctly stalked. Bacemes 4^6-flowered ; peduncles much exceeding the leaves ; 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx pilose, i in. ; teeth linear. Corolla half as 

 long again as the calyx; standard slightly pilose. Pod 1 in. by | in., finely pubes- 

 cent, 2-seeded. 



** Leaflets larger j flexible, not coriaceous, mostly acute. Pod mttch exceedir^ 

 the calyx. 



