315 
Spec. Cuan. Twining: ultimate branches slightly hairy: leaf. 
lets 8-20-pair, linear-oval, obtuse at both ends, glabrous or sprink- 
led with a few hairs: racemes axillary, peduncled, nearly as long as 
the leaves, many-flowered: calyx obsoletely lobed; claw of the 
vexillum longish, cohering with the staminal sheath at its base and 
forming with it a short tube round the ovary : flowers rose-coloured. 
Peninsula. Assam. Flowering in the cold season. There are 
varieties with white flowers and white black or red seeds. 
(2) A. FruticuLosus. (Herb. Madr.) 
Ident. W.&. A. prod. I, p. 236. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, t. 33. 
Spec. Cuan. Diffuse: ultimate branches leaves and racemes 
pubescent : leaflets approximated, narrow-linear, mucronate : racemes 
terminating the short leafy axillary branches, few-flowered: calyx 
teeth triangular-acute, upper one bifid at the apex: claw of the 
vexillum very short, cohering with the stamen-sheath only at the 
very base. 
Palamcottah. Malabar. 
GENUS XXXVIII. NOMISMIA. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Nomismos, a coin, alluding to the shape and appear- 
ance of the seeds. : 
Gen. Cuar. Twining plants: leaves pinnately trifoliolate : leaf- 
lets glandular on the under side: racemes axillary, often springing 
from the young axillary twining shoots; calyx and legume hairy : 
ealyx deeply 2-lipped, under lip longer than the upper, 3-partite, 
middle segment the longest: upper lip 2-cleft; all the segments 
bent faleately upwards, more or less subulate, and enclosing the 
corolla in wstivation and forming a hook beyond it: corolla pa- 
pilionaceous: vexillum with 2 callosities near the base of the 
limb: keel faleate, the petals free from the base to the bend: legume 
orbicular, much compressed, 1—2-seeded : seeds with a large, fleshy, 
2-lobed wart at the hilum. ' 
(1) N. nummutaria. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 237. 
Syn. Glycine nummularia, Linn. —Rhynchosia nummularia, Dec, 
prod. II. p. 386. ; 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t, 283. 
