226 L. LEGUMiNOSj;. (J. Gr. Baker.) [Bhynehosia. 



Branches twining or straight, woody, many-grooTed, persistently pilose. Stipules 

 minute, caducous ; leaflets 2-4 in. long and broad, thick, subeoriaceous, green, thinly 

 downy above, densely softly grey-downy beneath, exstipeUate. Racemes moderately 

 close, distinctly peduneled, much exceeding the leaves; pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyx |-J in., densely downy ; upper teeth deltoid or lanceolate,^ shorter than 

 the tube. Corolla ^ in.; standard canescent externally. Pod 1-1 J in. by i in., 

 turgid, 2-seeded, narrowed in the lower half, minutely downy. 



21. R. acutissima, Thwaites, Enum. 413 ; pulescence short not glandular, 

 leaflets oblong-rhomboidsi, pedicels exceeding the calyx, lowest calyx-tooth 

 lanceolate much shorter than the corolla. 



Teavanooe, Beddome. Cetlon, near Hantani, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A twiner, with stems clothed with short pale brown tomentum. Stipules lanceo- 

 late, caducous ; leaflets 2-5 in. long, very acuminate. Racemes equalling or shorter 

 than the leaves; pedicels geminate, J-J in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 

 deciduous. Calyx \ in. ; teeth lanceolate, the upper pair subconnate. Corolla ^ in., 

 yellow veined with red. Chary 2-ovuled. Pod not seen. 



*** Leqfiets not at all coriacemis. Calyx as long as the corolla, nearly as long 

 as the pod. (ArcyphyUvtm, JSMeort). 



22. B,. densiflora, DC. Prodr. ii. 386 ; Wall. Cat. 5492, excl. B. ; 

 W. 8f A. Prodr. 239. Glycine densiflora, Roth Nov. Sp. 348. Hedysarum 

 ptmctatum, Rottl. in Berl. Mag. 231, non Poir. Desmodium punctatum, BC. 

 Prodr. ii. 338. 



Plains of boti sides of the Western Peninsula. — Disteib. Zambesi land. 



Stems very slender, woody, wide-twining, finely grey-downy. Stipules minute, 

 caducous ; leaflets ovate-rhomboidal, obtuse or acute, 1-2 in. long, flexible, minutely 

 grey-downy, especially below, sometimes stipellate, the end one short-stalked. Flowers 

 20-40 or more in dense nearly sessile heads usually shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 

 much shorter than the calyx ; bracts linear, ^-J in., persistent. Calyx f-J in. ; teeth 

 all lanceolate acuminate ; tube very short. Corolla glabrous. Pod oblong, |-| in 

 by i in., 2-seeded, pubescent, oblique, narrowed suddenly at the tip. 



DOTTBTFUL SPECIES. 



DoLiCHOS CANDICANS, Wall. Cat. 5567, from Ava, belongs either to § 3 or 5, but 

 the seed is not known. It has densely tomentose virgate branches, thick coriaceous 

 obtuse leaflets rather broader than long densely persistently grey-tomentose on the 

 lower side with the veinlets raised, the end one distinctly stalked 1-2 in. long, 

 racemes short-peduncled closely few-flowered, small lanceolate bracts, pedicels shorter 

 than the calyx, calyx densely grey-pubescent f in. long, lowest tooth linear exceeding 

 the tube, the others shorter, lanceolate, coroUa scarcely exserted. 



E. MoiMssiKA, Dalz. injoum. lAnn. Soc. xiii. 186, from Kandesh, which I have not 

 seen, is said to differ from R. sericea principally by the want of callosities and auricles 

 to the standard. 



86. FI.EI«IirGXA, Boxb. 



Shnibs, rarely herl)s, with leaves digitately 3-foliolate or simple, gland-dotted 

 below. Irifloresceince various ; pedicels very short, not bracteolate. Calyx-ivbe 

 short; teeth narrow, acuminate, the lowest often the longest. Corolla little or 

 not at all exserted; petals equial in length ; keel obtuse or slightly rostrate. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 2-ovuled ; style fili- 

 form, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, small, usually two- 

 seeded ; 86eds not strophiolate, the funicle centoical. — ^Distktb. Only 3 Trop. 

 African species not here represented. 



SiTBGEN. 1. Ostryodium, Beso. Skrubs. Leaves simple. FUmers in 



