314 
segment bifid: joints of the legume compressed, irregularly retica- 
lated, pubescent. 
Ram Ghaut. Belgaum. Flowering in September. 
(9) A. pupescens. (Law.) 
“Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 65. 
_Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 250. 
-Sprc. Cuan. Herbaceous, erect: stems round, hairy: leaves 
simple, short-petioled, linear-Janceolate, acute, 3-nerved, glabrous 
above, pubescent beneath: racemes terminal, spicate ; flowers sub- 
sessile: calyx 4-cleft to the base, clothed with long silky hairs: 
legumes much contracted between the seeds. 
Belgaum. 
(10) A, parvirtorus. (Dalz.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 65.—Hook. Jour. Bot. IIT. p. 211, 
Srrc. Cuar. Herbaceous, erect; stem branched, glabrous at 
the base, covered with spreading hairs in the upper part; leaves 
simple and trifoliolate, oblong-elliptic, mucronate, somewhat cor- 
date at the base, strigose beneath : stipules shorter than the petioles: 
calyx almost 5-divided; segments subulate; legume half monili- 
form, reticulated, twice as long as the calyx, 5—6-seeded. 
Phoonda Ghaut, flowering in November. 
GENUS XXXVII. ABRUS. 
Diadelphia Deeandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Abros, soft, in allusion to the delicate leaves, 
Gey. Cuar. Twining or diffuse shrubs: leaves abruptly pin- 
nated, with many pairs of leaflets: calyx campanulate, obsoletely 
4-lobed, upper lobe broadest, or 4-toothed with the upper tooth 
bifid: corolla papilionaceous; vexillum ovate: stamens cohering 
at the base with the claw of the vexillum, the tenth wanting: style 
short: stigma capitate: legume oblong, compressed, 4—6-seeded ; 
seeds roundish, separated by cellular partitions. 
(1) A. precatorius. ( Linn.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. 1. p. 236.—Dec. prod. II. p. 381.— 
Roxb. fi. Ind. HI. p. 258. 
Syn. <A. paucifiorus and A. minor, Desv.—Glycine Abrus, 
Linn, 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIII. t, 39.—Rumph. Amb. VY. t. 32, 
e=-Pluk,. t, 214, f. 5. 
