252 A FLORA OF MANILA 



5- to 20 cm long. Racemes terminal and lateral. Flowers about 12 mm 

 long, the corolla blue and white. Pods 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, somewhat hairy. 

 Occasional in open places, Paraiiaque, fl. Dec-Apr.; widely distributed 

 in the Philippines, but certainly not an indigenous plant. Mbst tropical 

 countries. 



4. C. INCANA L. Latuc-latucan, Patoc-patocan, Bulailaua (Tag.). 



An erect, branched, suffrutescent plant usually about 1 m high, rather 

 softly gray-pubescent, the stems and branches cylindric. Leaflets 3, elliptic 

 to obovate, obtuse or very slightly acuminate, 2 to 5 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm 

 wide. Racemes terminal, 5 to 20 cm long. Calyx about 1 cm long, the 

 lobes lanceolate, acuminate, much longer than the tub«. Corolla yellow, the 

 standard 10 to 13 mm wide. Pods deflexed, inflated, hirsute, 3 to 4 cm 

 long, 1 cm thick or less, containing 20 to 30 seeds. (Fl. Pilip. pi, 160.) 



In waste places, fl. all the year; common about towns throughout the 

 Philippines. A native of tropical America, noyr widely distributed in the 

 tropics of the world. 



5. C. bracteata Roxb. 



An erect, branched, suffrutescent herb, or somewhat shrubby plant about 

 1 m high, sparingly pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate, the leaflets nearly 

 sessile, ovate to, oblong-ovate, narrowed at both ends, 5 to 10 cm long. 

 Racemes axillary and terminal, peduncled, 4 to 10 cm long, densely flowered. 

 Flowers yellow, about 1 cm long. Pods oblong-cylindric, densely pubescent. 



Near Port McKinley, fl. Jan.-Feb.; of local occurrence in Luzon. India 

 and the Malay Archipelago. 



6. C. QUINQUEFOLIA L. Patocan, Patoc-patocan, Bulailaua (Tag.). 



An erect, branched, rather coarse, annual herb 1.5 to 1.3 m high the 

 stems green, striate. Leaflets 6, rarely 7, linear to linear-lanceolate, 4 to 

 12 cm long, 0.5 to 2 cm wide, pubescent beneath, apex blunt, a|)iculate. 

 Racemes terminal, the bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 1.5 

 cm long.. Calyx. glabrojus, green, about 1 cm long, the lobes ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate. Petals yellow, the standard more or less brownish-purple on 

 the back, about 2.5 cm wide. Pod inflated, boat-shaped 5 -to 6 cm long, 

 about 2 cm wide, stalked, containing 30 to 40 seeds. (PI. Filip. pi. 159".) 



In waste-places, old rice-fields, etc., fl. Aug.-Jan.; throughout the Phil- 

 ippines, but certainly introduced. India lo Malaya. 



41. FLEMINGIA Roxburgh 



Shrubs or suffrutescent herbs, the leaves digitately 3-foliolate or simple. 

 Flowers racemose, the racemes solitary or panicled, or in small cymes, each 

 cyme hidden by a large folded bract, the bracts distichously arranged in 

 zig-zag racemes. Calyx-tube short, the lobes narrow, acuminate, the lowest 

 one often the longest. Corolla little or not at all exserted, the petals equal 

 in length. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary 2-ovuled. Pod oblong, swollen, 

 small, usually 2-seeded. (In honor of J. Fleming.) 



Species about 20, tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and Australia, 5 in tlje 

 Philippines. 



Leaves 3-foliolate; flowers in dense, solitary racemes 1. F. cumingiam 



Leaves simple; cymes hidden by large, folded, persistent, distichous bracts, 

 arranged in simple or branched racemes 2. F. strobilifera 



