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3. Sepiarius, Dalz. in Hook, Jour. Bot. ii, p 33. — Glabrous, 

 twining; leaflets somewhat membranaceous, broadly ovate acu- 

 minate mucronate, 3-nerved at the base, lateral leaflets unequal- 

 sided ; stipules adnate, ovate lanceolate ; peduncles about twice the 

 length of the leaf; flowers between racemose and capitate; divisions 

 of the calyx subulate, 3-nerved, upper lip deeply bidentate; flowers 

 large, rose-coloured ; legume round straight, many-seeded, covered 

 with brown shining hairs ; root tuberous. Very common in the 

 Northern Concan ; flowers in September. 



4. Setulosus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 33. — Twining, 

 all covered with reddish-brown scattered bristles pointing back- 

 ward; leaflets glabrous herbaceous, rhomb-ovate, scarcely acute, 

 ciliated on the margin ; lateral leaflets unequal ; stipules adnate, 

 ovate obtuse ciliated, many-nerved ; calyx glabrous campanulate, 

 upper lip truncated, lower shortly 3-toothed, the teeth obtuse; flowers 

 yellow ; legume straight round, slender, rough, with minute bristles 

 2 inches long; seeds cylindric, 10 to 12. Malwan ; flowers in 

 September. 



5. Pauciflorus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 209. — Twining ; 

 root fibrous; stem striated filiform, slightly hispid, with white 

 hairs pointing backwards ; leaves membranaceous, rhomb-ovate 

 acuminate, as long as the petiole ; stipules lanceolate-acute, 

 adnate below the middle ; peduncles shorter than the petiole, 

 flowers 2 to 3, terminating the peduncles ; flowei-s small, yellow ; 

 legume round, straight, 2 inches long, quite smooth ; 9 to 10 seeded, 

 seeds cylindrical truncate at both ends. Southern Concan; 

 common. 



6. C Grandis, Dalz. — Erect, 4 to 5 feet high ; stem herbaceous, 

 piped as thick as one's finger, 5-angled, sparingly clothed with brown 

 reversed bristly hairs; leaves pinnately trifoliolate, very large; 

 stipules very large, foliaceous, adnate, the free part below bilobed ; 

 leaflets sparingly sprinkled on both sides with minute adpressed 

 bristles, lateral leaflets unsymmetrically bilobed, terminal, deeply 

 3-lobed ; lobes ovate, with a short and sudden blunt acumination ; 

 peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the leaf, covered with re- . 

 flexed bristles, many-flowered at the apex ; flowers small for the 

 size of the plant; pale-yellow, with large oval bracts below the 

 calyx ; legumes cylindric torulose, obtuse at the apex, 3 inches long, 

 as thick as a goose-quill, covered with black adpressed bristles. 

 A very remarkable species on the highest Ghauts east of Bombay. 



21. CAJAMUS, DC. 



1 . KuLNENSis, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 264. — Stem twining 

 filiform, pubescent, with spreading fulvous hairs ; leaves ternalcly 



