Rhynchosia.] LEGUMINOSJE, 221 



12. ERIOSEMA. I>C.; Fl Brit. Ind. ii, 219. 

 Shrubs or herbs, mostly suberect, with 1-3-foliolate gland-dotted 

 leaves i^Zoiuers racemed or axillary. Calyx campanulate ; teeth 5, 

 as long as the tube. Corolla distinctly exserted ; limb of standard 

 roundish, auricled at the base, wings and slightly beaked keel shorter,, 

 *S'^awe»5 2-adelphous, anthers uniform. Oya^j/ sessile, 2-ovuled ; 

 ^^^/'^e filiform, glabrous, .5 (?i^wa capitate. Pod oblong, turgid, 1-2- 

 seeded ; seeds oblique, the funicle attached to the extremity of a 

 linear hilum. Species about 70, mostly Trop. African and American. 

 E< chinense, Vog.Iiov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix, SwpyL i, 31; F. B.I. iit 

 219; Watt E. D. CroUlaria tuberosa, Buch.-Ham. in Don. Prod. 241* 

 Pyrrotrichia tuberosa, W. Sf A. Trod. 238. 



An erect undershrub l-l? ft. high, with a small tuberous woody root- 

 stock. Stems slender, branching near the base, densely pubescent. 

 Leaves 1-2 in. long, 1-f oliolate, shortly petioled, linear oblong or lanceo- 

 late, subcoriaceous, greenish with a few appressed hairs above, glau- 

 cous and densely grey-tomentose beneath, the veins rusty-tomentose; 

 stijpules linear, scarious, persistent, stipels minute. Flowers 1-2, in 

 the axils of the upper leaves, subsessile or on a common pedicel ; 

 ferac^eoZes obsolete. Calyx densely pilose. Corolla twice the calyx, 

 yellow, blackish when drying; standard hairy outside. Pod oblong, 

 clothed with long spreading rufous hairs. 

 Saugor (Vicary) Distbib. W. Himalaya from Garhwal eastward to 

 Khasia and Assam, up to 6,000 ft. ; also in Chota Nagpur, Oey Ion, and 

 the Malay Pen., extending to China, the Philippines and N. Australia. 

 The tuberous roots are sometimes eaten. 



13. RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 220. 

 Twining or ' erect herbs or shrubs Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate> 

 gland-dotted beneath, usually without stipels ; stipules and bracts 

 caducous. Flowers axillary or racemed. Calyx-tube short ; teeth 

 equalling or much exceeding it, usually not accrescent, the upper 

 often more or less connate. Corolla included or exserted; kesl 

 incurved, not distinctly beaked. Stamens 2-adelphous, anthers 

 uniform. Ovary subsessile, usually 2-ov:iled ; style long, filiform, 

 much incurved; stigma capitate. Poi round or oblong, flattish or 

 turgid. Funicle almost GentY9b\ on the hilum. — Species about 100, 

 found in the tropics of both Hemispheres. 



A trailing herb, seeds with a waxy arillus . 1, B. cajpitata. 

 Twining herbs, seeds with no arillus. 



Leaflets small, nearly glabrous . . 2. B. minima. 

 Leaflets large, softly pubescent. 



Stipules lanceolate, subpersistent 3. B. sericea. 

 Stipules minute, deciduous. , , 4. B. hracteata 



