220 LEGVMINOSM, [Flemingia. 



villous beneath, prominently veined : stipules villous, caducous. 

 Fiowers small, in short dense long-peduncled axillary and usually 

 solitary racemes ; pedicels short ; bracts obtuse, caducous. Oalyx silky 

 and with garnet-coloured glands outside. Corolla lilac or rose with 

 purple veins. Pods sessile, oval, beset with garnet-coloured glands. 

 Seeds globose, grey mottled with brown. 



Eohilkhand, N. Oudh, Gorakhpur and Nepal Terai (Duthie's collectors)' 

 The red glands on the calyx and pods are very conspicuous. For an 

 account of the ' waras ' dye obtained from similar glands found on 

 on African species (F. rhodocarpa) the reader is referred to Dr. Watt's 

 Dictionary tinder "Flemingia congesta." 



11. F. nana, Boxl), Hort. Beng. 56; Ft. Ind. Hi, 339; Wight Ic. 389 

 (copied from that of Boxi urgh) ; Prain in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. I. c. 441. 

 F. congesta var. nana. Bale, in F. B. I. ii, 229 (but not as described), excl. 



syn. F procvmibens, Boxb. 



Suffruticose. Whole plant 6-8 in. only, with hardly any stem. Leaves 

 3-f oliolate, long-petioled ; leaflets 1-3 in. long, 3-nerved, downy, the later- 

 al obliquely oblong, terminal one obovate ; petioles often longer than 

 the leaves, winged ; stipules ensif orm, | in. long Bacemes crowded, 

 elongate, shortly peduncled ; bracts lanceolate. Flov)ers small, pale- 

 green tinged with pink and with deeper stripes. Calyx and pods covered 

 with minute viscid bright red glands. Pods about ^ in. long. Seeds 

 small, round, brown. 



Discovered near Hardwar on the Ganges by Colonel Hardwicke, by whom 

 seeds were given to Dr. Eoxburgh, Kheri district of N. Oudh (Duthie's 

 collector), Sanger (Jerdon). Disteib. Behar, ChotaN"agpur, Kanara. 

 A remarkable- looking plant, having all the appearance of a degenerated 

 form of some much larger species, though different in many other re- 

 spects from any existing one. In some specimens the size of the leaves 

 is out of all proportion to that of the plant. The foliage and elongated 

 racemes resemble most nearly those of F • semialata, and in both the 

 petioles are winged. 



12, F. involucrata, Benth. PL Jungh. 246; F. B. I. ii, 229. F. capitu- 



lata, Boyle Mss. 



An erect shrub, 2-4 ft. high, with slender terete zigzag woody finely 

 downy branches. Leaves digitately 3-f oliolate ; stipules large, scarious 

 caducous ; petiole z-^ in. ; leafets 2-3 in. long, oblong or lanceolate, nar- 

 rowed at both ends, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, grey and finely- 

 downy below. Flowers in compact heads, terminal and axillary, sur- 

 rounded by many lanceolate acumiDa':e scarious persistent bracts, which 

 are i in. long. Calyx |-| in. long, clothed with long grey hairs ; teeth 

 very long, the two upper subconnate. Corolla included, heel obtuse. 

 Pod small, oblong, not exserted, downy, 1- .needed. 



Siwalik range (Falconer), Saugor (Jerdon). Distbib. Assam, Sikkim, 

 Burma; also in Bengal and in C. and W. India, extending to Java. 

 Flowers at the beginning of the cold season. 



