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trifoliolate ; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, shortly acuminated ; roughish 

 above, pubescent and covered with wax-coloured glands beneath; 

 stipules ovate-acuminated ciliated, stipels setaceous ; racemes 

 axillary, about 6-flowered, as long as the leaf, flowers yellow; 

 legumes linear oblong, narrow at both ends, clothed with long, soft 

 viscid hairs, 5-seeded, obhquely constricted between the seeds. 

 Near Kulna, in the Warree country. 



2. GcENSis, Dalz. loc. cit. — All over villous, with soft yellow 

 hairs; stem twining; leaves pinnately trifoholate; leaflets ovate 

 rounded, shortly acuminated, with waxy-looking glands beneath ; 

 stipules triangular acuminated ; stipels setaceous ; racemes axillary 

 and terminal, peduncled, many-flowered, 2 or 3 times longer than 

 the leaf. At the base of Chorla Ghaut. 



3. C Glandulosus. — Stems round, twining, the whole plant 

 covered with a close, short tomentum, yellowish or whitish ; leaves 

 long-petioled, pinnately trifoliolate; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, the 

 lateral ones acute, all as broad as long, covered on the underside 

 with brown resinous glands ; flowers large, yellow racemed, in pairs ; 

 raceme peduncled, axillary or terminal, solitary, longer than the 

 leaf; pedicels half an inch long, retrofracted in fruit; legume linear, 

 nearly straight his[)id, with yellow bristly hairs, pointed, 7 to 8- 

 seeded, obliquely constricted between the seeds ; calyx with the 

 upper lip entire. At MaUvan and Wagotun, Southern Concan. 



Note. — The species of this genus may be known by a sinus near the bottom 

 of the ala», 



22. CANTHAROSPERMUM, W. and A. 



1. Pauciflokum, W. and A. Prod. 255. — Biennial, twining; 

 leaflets obovate rugose; peduncles shorter than the petiole, few- 

 flowered ; flowers small, yellow ; legume linear, softly hairy, 

 transversely constricted between the seeds, 3 to 8-seeded. Very 

 common in the Concan. Syn. Cajanus scarabseoides, Pet. Thouan, 

 Graham in Wall. L. Dolichos scarabseoides, Linn. sp. 1020; D 

 medicaginens, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 316 (as to description and charac- 

 ter); Rhyncosia scarabseoides, DC. Prod. 2, 387 ; R biflora, DC. 

 loc. cit. ; Ltizolobium scarabseoides, Spr. syst. iii, 253 ; Roxburgh 

 says the " callosities of the banner are very sharp" ; W. and A. that 

 there are no callosities. Roxburgh also says " the calyx has the 

 upper part entire" ; W. and A. that it is " spUt at the apex." 

 Benlham considers this genus the same with Atylosiaof W. and A. 



23. LEUCODICTYON, Dalz. 



1. Malvensis, Walp. Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 264. — A 

 twining plant ; stems several, filiform, from a woody root ; leaves 

 10 c 



