] 1. LEGUMiNOsa;. (J. Gr. Baker.) 285 



A climbing glabrous shrub, Tvith copious circinate tendrils. Leaves thin, deeply 

 cordate, 5-7-nerved, the cleft very variable, sometimes scarcely perceptible, some- 

 times a deep deltoid sinus and the points acuminate. Raoemes cylindrical, 2-6 in. 

 long, arranged in ample axillary and terminal panicles; bracts minute, linear; 

 pedicels ^ in., ereoto-patent, finely downy. Calyx J~ in. long, broadly campanulate, 

 irith 5 deltoid teeth. Petals •white, oblanceolate, twice the length of the calyx. Pod 

 thin, flat, oblong, glabrous, indehiscent, stalked, 1^2 in. long, 1-2-seeded. 



Sect. 6. Casparea, DO. Calyx-tahe fusiform; limb spathaceoua. 

 Fertile stamen one. 



37. B. monandra, Kim-s in Journ. Asiat. Soo. Beng. zlii. 2^ 73. 



BntMA, Dr. Brandis. 



Young branches puberulous. Leaves round-ovate, truncate at the base, palmately 

 11-nerved, chartaceous, 1-1 J in. long, glabrous above, dovray on the ribs below, cut 

 one-third down into two rounded lobes. Bacemes short, terminal, pubescent ; pedicels 

 1-1^ in., densely puberulous ; bracts minute, subulate. Calyx downy externally. 

 Petals 1| in., obovate-cuneate, glabrous, undulated, probably whitish. Orajy stalked, 

 flilvo-villose ; style slender, twice as long as the ovary. Pod unknown. — Ex Kwrx 

 he. (At. 



DOUBTFDX SPECIES, 



B. LTjciDA, JfoK. Cat. 5779 B (totally different from 5779 A), grown in the Oalr 

 cutta garden from Penang, has the fully divided leaves of section Lysvphyllum, but 

 the flower is unknown. The half-leaves are dimidiate cordate-ovate, twice as long as 

 broad, narrowed gradually to a point, rigidly subcoriaceous, 3-4-nerved, with the ribs 

 beneath cbthed with adpressed ferruginous tomeutum. It may be the Malayan 

 Phanera diptera, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 70. 



B. piPBBiroLiA, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 327 (Phanera, Benth. PI. Jungh. 262), from the 

 mountain forests of Silhet, is said to be a climber with entire cordate 5-7-nerved 

 smooth lucid leaves, terminal panicles and 1-2-seeded round-oval pods. 



115. STEFTUXrXA, Lour. 



Herbs without prickles. Leaves bipinnate, with persistent stipules and 

 numerous small strap-shaped sensitive membranous leaflets. Flowers minute, 

 dimorphous, in dense heads on axillary peduncles, polygamous, those of the 

 lower part of the head bearing only protruded flattened staminodia. Calyx 

 minute, campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, strap-shaped, connate near the base. 

 Stamens of the perfect flowers exserted ; anthers gland-crested. Ovary stalked, 

 many-ovuled; style filiform, stigma club-shaped. Pod coriaceous, flattened, 

 ligulate or oljlong, 2-valved. — Disibib. Species 8 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



1. N. oleracea, Lour. ; Benth,. in Hook. Journ. iv. 354 ; stems almost 

 entirely prostrate, leaflets 16-30, sterile -flowers numerous, pod oblique oblong 

 6-10-8eeded. Dalz. ^ Qibs. Bomb. Fl. 84. Mimosa natans, Roxb. Cor. PI. 

 1. 119 ; Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 553. Desmanthus natans, WiUd. ;, BC. 

 Prodr. ii. 444; Wall. Cat. 6295; W, ^ A. Prodr. 270. D. lacustris and 

 stolonifer, DC. Prodr, loe. cit. 



KoETH "West provinces, to Ceylon and Maiacoa. — ^Disteib. Cosmopolitan in 

 tropics. 



Stems stout, annual, wide-creeping, rarely throwing out suberect branches, pro- 

 ducing copious fibrous rootlets from the same nodes that bear the leaves and 

 peduncles. Pinnce 4-6, 2-3 in. long ; rachis glandless ; leaflets glabrous, obtuse, |-J 

 in. long. Pedv/ncles ascending, J-1 ft. ; bracts small, ovate, subobtuse. Staminodes 

 |-| in., strap-shaped, yellow. Corolla i in. Pad J-l in. long, rostrate, dry, soon 

 dehiscing by the upper suture. 



