316 
Spzc. Cuar. Petioles longer than the leaves: leaflets cuneates 
‘obovate, broader than long, retuse: racemes few-flowered, lax, 
‘much shorter than the petioles, usually on the young shoots: calyx 
‘segments (except the lowest) ‘about half the length of the corolla3_ 
legume terminated by the straight base-of the style, 1-seeded: flow- 
-ers ‘yellow. 
Peninsula. Travancore. 
(2) N. cavrrata. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 237. 
Syn. Glycine capitata, Heyne.—Rhyncosia capitata, Dec. prod, 
Il. p. 386. : 
Engrav, * Wight’s Icon. 't. 295. ; 
Sprc. Cuar. Petioles about the length of the leaves: leaflets 
nearly orbicular with a cuneate base: racemes peduncled, many- 
flowered, longer than the leaves, with a slender, leafless and some- 
vwhat abortive young shoot springing from about the middle of the 
peduncle: calyx segments long, subulate: vexillum not striped : 
‘legume terminated by the hooked base of the style, 2-seeded: flow- 
sers yellow. 
‘Peninsula, 
(3) N. aurea. (W.§ A.) ’ 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 237. 
‘Syn. Hedysarum aureum, Koen.—Glycine aurea, Willd.—G, 
elongata, Roth.—Rhyncosia aurea, Dec. prod. II. p. 386.—R. elon« 
gata, Dec. l.c. : 
Engrav. Phik. t. 52. f. 5. 
Spec. Cuar. Petioles about the length of -the leaves: leaflets 
nearly orbicular, cuneate at the base, terminal one rhomboid and 
slightly acute: racemes peduncled,. few-fiowered, flexuose, shorter 
than the leaves, not bearing a young shoot on the peduncle: calyx 
segments long-subulate, much falcate, forming a long subulate hook- 
ed point to the flower-bud during zestivation: vexillum broad, strip- 
ed with dark veins: legumes terminated by the hooked base of the 
style, 2-seeded: flowers yellow. 
Peninsula. 
GENUS XXXIX. RHYNCHOSIA. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Rhynchos, a beak, alluding to the beaked keel, 
