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boidal ; racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves, many-flowered ; 

 flowers 2 or more from each bractea ; calyx very hairy ; legume 

 linear compressed, continuous ; 5 to 6-seeded, with cellular partitions 

 between the seeds. Between Parwar Ghaut and Tullawaree. Syn. 

 Glycine vestita, Graham in Wall list ; Wight Ic. t. 162. 



14. GALACTIA, P. Browne. 



1 . SiMPLiciFOLiA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 209. — Stem 

 creeping, filiform, hispid, with brown hairs pointing backwards ; 

 leaves simple-petioled ovate ; stipules adnate nerved acute, partial 

 stipules at the apex of the petiole setaceous ; flowers axillary and 

 terminal, racemose fascicled, purple ; racemes shorter than the leaf; 

 legume covered with brown hairs, linear, slightly compressed, many- 

 celled ; seeds orbicular, compressed. Near Tullawaree ; flowers 

 in October. At Hurrychunder. 



15. JOHNIA, W. and A. 



1 . J CoNGESTA, Dalz. Mss. — Stems filiform, twining, clothed 

 with fine white soft reflexed hairs ; leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets small, 

 broad ovate, very acute, 1^ inch long; stipules oblong acute, 

 strongly 4-nerved, fixedly a broad base, 2 lines long ; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, not longer than the stipules, 2 to 3-flowered ; 

 legumes reflexed, compressed flat, linear, slightly falcate-pointed 

 with the remains of the style, puberulous, 5 to 6-seeded ; valves 

 united between the seeds. Sewnere hill-fort. 



16. CANAVALIA, Adans. 



1. ViROSA, W. and A. Prod. 253. — Biennial, twining, trifo- 

 liolate ; leaflets oval or ovate ; flowers rather large, of a beautiful 

 rose-colour, racemose, subsecund ; legumes large (6 inches), 

 3-keeled on the upper suture, 6 to 8-seeded. W. and A. say that 

 they have never found diadelphous stamens in this genus ; they are 

 certainly so in this plant, as asserted by Roxburgh and DeCandoIle. 

 Called " Gowara" by the natives, who recognise two kinds, one 

 bitter, the other sweet. The latter is probably the cultivated 

 species G gladiata. Syn. Dolichos virosus, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 301. 

 Common in hedges. 



2. SrocKSii, Dalz. Mss. — Scandent, very long ; stem round, 

 smooth, common ; petioles 3 to 8 inches long, channelled on the 

 upper surface, and swelled at the base ; stipules linear-obtuse from a 

 broad base, nearly half inch long ; lateral leaflets broad oval, nearly 

 orbicular, 3-nerved, with a short sudden acumination, rather unequal- 

 sided, 5 inches long, 4 inches broad, smooth on both sides, rather 



