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11. CLITORIA, Linn. 



1. Ternatea, Linn. DC. Prod. 2, 233. — Herbaceous plant ; 

 stem twining, leaves unequally pinnated ; leaflets 2 to 3 pair, oval 

 or ovate ; peduncles short, axillary, solitary, one-flovyered ; legume 

 linear compressed, straight, many-seeded; flowers large, blue. 

 Very common in hedges. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 321 ; Rheede Mai. 

 viii, t. 38 ; Paxton Mag. Bot. vii, 147, cum icone. 



2. BiFLOEA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 34. — Herbaceous, 

 erect ; stem striated with lines of hair ; leaflets ovate or lanceolate 

 acute, strigose beneath ;" stipules general and partial setaceous ; 

 peduncles very short, 2-flowered ; bracts small lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, bracteoles large ovate acuminate ; calyx tubular, hairy, the 

 teeth with bristly points ; ovary silky ; flowers blue, half the size 

 of those of C ternatea. Concan ; common. Fort Sewnere. 



12. GLYCINE, Linn. 



1 . Labialis, Linn, suppl. p 325. — Twining, stems slightly hairy; 

 leaflets ovate oblong, slightly coriaceous, upperside glabrous and 

 shining, under pale-green, sparingly hairy ; stamens monadelphous ; 

 calyx with short adpressed whitish hairs ; legumes with adpressed 

 pubescence sharp-pointed, point bent up and rigid, upper lip of 

 calyx bifid. Syn, G debihs Ait, DC. Prod. ; G parviflora, Lam. 

 in DC. loc. cit ; Teramnus labialis, Spr. syst. iii, 235; T parviflorus, 

 Spr. loc. cit. 



2. Waeeeensis, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 211. — Stamens 

 diadelphous ; leaflets ovate oblong, rather membranaceous, glabrous 

 above, strigose beneath, lateral leaflets unequal-sided; racemes 

 compound, 2 to 3 times longer than the leaf, many-flowered ; flowers 

 approximated ; legume transversely veined, covered with adpressed 

 white hairs; 6-seeded; seeds distant; calyx strongly nerved, upper 

 lip entire. In Warree ; flowers in the cold season. 



3. Pentapiiylla, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 334. — Stem 

 round, twining, strigose ; leaflets 2 pair, with an odd one, lanceolate 

 mucronate, strigose on both sides ; flowers axillary, interruptedly 

 spicate ; spikes straight, rigid, solitary or twin, shorter than the leaf; 

 legume much compressed, linear acute, terminated by a straight 

 short mucro, many-celled, 1 ^ inch long, 4 lines broad, thickened 

 on the sutures. In the Warree country ; flowers in the 

 cold season. 



13. SHUTERIA, W. and A. 



1. Vestita, W. and A. Prod. 207.— Herbaceous, twining; 

 leaY.es pinnately tvifoliolate, lateral leaflets ovate, terminal rhom- 



