222 LEGUMJNOS^, [Rhynchosia. 



1. R. capitata, DC Frod. ii,. 386; W. S^ A. Prod. 237 ; Train in 

 Jour II. As. 8oc. Beng. Ixvi, pt. ii, 435. B. aurea, F. B. I. ii, 221 fin -part). 



An anntial with slender wide- trailing stems, clothed with fine spreading 

 hairs Leaflets roundish, with a cuneate base ; petioles about as long 

 as the leaves Racemes many-fld,, ultimately becoming twisted and 

 forming round heads of flowers ; pedmicles longer than the leaves, 

 with a slender leafless and somewhat abortive yourg shoot springing 

 from about the middle of it. Caliix-segments long, subulate, forming 

 a short hooked point to the flower-buds. Corolla yellow, the standard 

 not striped with purple Pod marked with very delicate close 

 transverse veins, and terminated by the hooked base of the style, 

 Jaxiy pilose, 2-seeded. 



Bundelkhand iVicary). Distrib W. HimiUya in the Kangra Valley, 

 Punjab Plain, Behar and in and S. India 



2. R. minima, DC. Prod, ii, 335; F B. I. ii, 223; Watt E. D. 

 B. medicaginea, DC; W & A. Prod. 238 ; Boyle III. 191; D. & G. 

 Bomb. Fl 74. E,. microphylla. Wall; Boyle III 191 B, . nuda, DC; 

 W. & A. I.e. 



Usually atwining annual nearly or quite glabrescent. Stems very slender 

 Stipules minute, lanceolate, caducous. Leaflets ^-1 in and as broad as 

 long, obtuse, deltoid in the lower half, conspicuously gland-dotted 

 beneath, the end one distinctly stalked, usually ex^'tipellate. Bacemes 

 usually exceeding the leaves, short peduncled, 6-12-fld.: bracts minute, 

 linear. Calyx pubescent; lowest tootli setaceous, twice the tube. 

 Corolla yellow, exserted Pod about ^ in. long, glabrescent, turgid, 

 slightly recurved, usually 2-seeded. 



Abundant within the area. Distrib. Throughout India, and on the 

 Himalaya up to 4,000 ft.; also in Oeylon and Barma, Cosmopolitan 

 in the tropics. 



' 3. R. sericea, fifpa*iog7ie in, LinncB% XV, 195; F, B. I. ii, 225. 

 Dolichos tomeatosu3, Both; W. & A. Prod. 243. 



Stems woody, slender, wide-climbing, clothed with soft short spreading 

 grey glandular hairs. Leafl'^ts softly pubescent and pale -green on 

 hot h surfaces, deltoid at the obtuse or sub-acute apex, the lower half 

 narrowing suddenly to a rather rounded base, sometimes stipellate, 

 the end-one distinctly stalked ; stipules lanceolate, ^-f in., subper>is- 

 tent. Eacemes many-fld , about 12 in. long including the peduncle; 

 pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracts lanceolate, silky, exceeding 

 the buds. Cak/a? 5-I in., densely grey-silky ; upper teeth deltoid-cuspi- 

 date, shorter than the tube. Coroiia exserted ; siandarcJ dark purple 

 inside, di-^-tinctly auricled. silky on the back. Pod l-lj in. long, finely 

 pubescent, turgid, 2-seeded, rather recurved, tipped with the long 

 persistent base of the style. 



Siwalik range (Falconer), Gonda dist. of Oudh (Duthie's collector), Ajmer, 

 Sanger. Distrib. Bsngal, Central and W. Himalaya up to 6,000 ft., 

 and on the hills of 0. and S. India. 



