230 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Flemingia. 



Eastern Himalayas, Assam and Sikkim, ascending to 3000 ft. Pbgtj, McCleUcmd, 

 Kurz. CoNCAN, Stocks. — Disteib. Java. 



An erect shrub, 2-4 ft. Wgh, with slender terete zigzag woody finely downy 

 branches. Stipules large, scariose, caducous ; petiole ^-J in. ; leaflets oblong or 

 lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, 2-3 in. long, subeoriaceous, glabrous above, grey and 

 finely downy below. Heads copious, both terminal on the branches and, axillary on 

 short peduncles, an inch broad, encircled by about a dozen lanceolate acuminate sca- 

 riose persistent bracts ^ in. long. Cal^x ^— | in. long, shaggy with long dense grey 

 hairs ; teeth very long, the two upper subconnate. Corolla included ; keel obtuse. 

 Pod small, oblong, included, firm, downy, 1 -seeded. 



STTBflBN. 5. Ztbyncliosioides. Trailing herbs witli herbaceous roots. 

 Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; bracts minute, caducous. 



10. r. vestita, Benth. MSS. ; leaflets obovate-cuneate minutely pilose, 

 stipules large persistent, flowers 4r-10 in dense long-peduncled heads, corolla 

 much exserted. Dolichos vestitus, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5645. 



Himalayas ; from SiuiA, CtAbwhai. and Kumaon to Khasia, ascending to 7000 ft. 

 Sometimes cultivated for the sake of its tuberous esculent root. 



Stems trailing to a length of 1-2 ft., branched, densely clothed with short grey 

 hairs. Stipules |^-| in., lanceolate, scariose ; petiole J-1 in. ; leaflets brought close to 

 one another by their edges, not at all coriaceous, full green above, pale green beneath, 

 minutely hairy on both side?, exstipellate, obtuse or shortly cuspidate, ^1 in. each way. 

 Flowers 3-6 together, in dense heads like Lotus, on pilose peduncles overtopping the 

 leaves ; pedicels very short; bracts J in., silky, oblong or roundish, cuspidate. Calyx 

 J-f in., densely brown-velvety ; teeth subequal, exceeding the tube. Corolla bright 

 red, half as long again as the calyx ; keel much incurved, distinctly rostrate. Pod 

 oblong, included, subcylindrical, 1 -seeded, finely hairy. 



Vae. nilgheriensis ; leaflets smaller firmer more acute, hairs of stem and petioles 

 longer and denser, flowers a dozen or more in a head, calyx-teeth linear, corolla 

 scarcely exserted. F. procumbens, Wight lo. t. 987 ; JDalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 76, non 

 Boxb. — Hills of Western Peninsula. 



11. P. tuberosa, Dah. in Kew Jowrn. Bat. ii. 34; leaflets lanceolate 

 glabrous, stipules minute caducous, flowers very lax in few-flowered peduncled. 

 dichotomous corymbs, corolla not exserted. Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bmnb. Fl. 75. 



CoNCAN, Dalzell, Stocks. 



Stems 2-3 ft. long, copiously branched, thinly clothed with fine spreading hairs. 

 Leaflets rigidly subeoriaceous, acute, 1-2 in. long, those of the lowest leaves shorter, 

 oblong. Corymbs copious, terminal and axillary, distinctly peduncled, exceeding the 

 leaves, the last branches erecto-pa,tent, 1-2 in. long, the flowers usually solitary, rarely 

 geminate at their tips ; bracts and bracteoles minute, rigid, ovate, like those of Shu- 

 teria. Calyx i in., strongly ribbed, densely pilose ; teeth lanceolate, exceeding the 

 tube. 5Zffid« of standard round ; keel very narrow, abruptly incurved at the tip. Pod 

 oblong, 1-2-seeded, if the latter slightly exceeding the calyx. 



86. DAXiBEReZA, Linn. fil. 



' Trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves with alternate subeoriaceous leaflets. Flmoers 

 copious, small, in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx oampanulate ; teeth 5, 

 distinct, usually short. Corolla exserted ; standard broad ; keel obtuse, with 

 its petals only joined at the tip. Stamens 9-10, monadelphous or the sheath 

 slit down the keel ; anthers minute, basifixed, with the cells back to back, and the 

 slit mostly short and apical. Ovary stalked, few-ovuled ; style short, incurved, 

 glabrous, stigma capitate. Pod oblong or strap-shaped, usually thin and flat, 



l-4^seeded, indehiscent, not thickened or winged at the sutures. Distrib. 



Species 60-70, cosmopolitan in the tropica. 



