270 LBGUMINOS^. [^schynomene. 



Dehra Dun (Duthie). Distbib. Himalaya, up to 3,000 ft., and south to 

 Ceylon ; also in Burma, Java and in N. Australia. 



Vab. conferta, F. B. 1. 1, c S conferta, Sm.— Upper nodes congested into 

 dense heads, leaves and calyx more bristly.— Lalitpur in Bundelkhand 

 (Duthie). DiSTRiB. Mt. Abu, Chanda dist. in the C. Prov. 



3. S. ciliata, Royle III. 201, t. 35, f. 2 ; F. B. 1. ii, 150. S. pumila, 

 Royle M^S.; W. Sf A. Frod. 220. 



An annual with slender glabrous stems, i-2 ft. high. Leaf-rachis |-1 

 in.; leay?ets 3-8 pairs, 5-f in., 1. near, obtuse, distinctly bristly on the 

 edges and midrib below. Flovjers in dense copious short-peduncled 

 axillary s ecu nd racemes; Iracteoles leafy, oblong, ciliated, nearly as, 

 long as the calyx. Calyx 5 in., densely bristly ; upper lip truncate, 

 finally 5 in. bread, lower one lanceolate. Coro.la yell(.>w, little esserteda 



Dehra Dun. Distbib. Himalaya from Simla to Sikkim and the Khasia 

 and Naga Hills, up to 6,000 ft., Parasnath, Burma; also in Formosa. 



48. ^SCHYNOMENE, Linu.; PI. Brit. Ind. ii, 151. 



Erect herbs or undei shrubs. Leaves with very numerous close sensi- 

 tive odd- pinnate small linear leaflets. Flowers in sparse racemes. 

 Calyx deeply 2-lipped, the lips laintly toothed. Corolla fugacious, 

 standard orbicular, Iceel not beaked. Stamens in 2 bundles of 5 each, 

 anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, linear, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 incurved, stigma terminal. Fod linear, exserted, with a stalk longer 

 than the calyx, and 4-8 flattened 1-seeded sepa-.-atiug joints.— Species 

 upwards of 50, inhabiting the tropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Stems slender, much branched ; calyx 

 glabrous 1. M. indica. 



Stems robust, pith-like ; calyx hispid. . 2. ^. aspera. 



1. JE. indica, Linn.; Sp. PI. 713 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 219 ; D. Sf Q, Bomh. Fl. 

 62 ; F. B. I. a, 151 ; Watt E. D. Hedysarum Neli-Tali, Roxh. ; FL Ind. ii% 

 365. Smithia aspera, Pi-oxh. I.e. 343.— Yenn. Eath-sola (Beng.) 



A shrub-like annual, 1-3 ft. high, g]a,brous, pale-green, with many slender 

 terete branches, often slightly muricate. Leaf'rachis 2-3 in. long ;. 

 stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, with acute auricled bases, deci- 

 duous ; leaflets very numerous, small, sessile, alternate, set obliquely on 

 the rachis and overlapping, linear, obtuse, apiculate, thin, glabrous, 

 1- nerved, the upper ones much the smallest. Flowers 1-4), in axillary 

 racemes ; peduncles and pedicels slender, glandular and usually viscid ; 

 Iracts small lanceolate, ciliate. Calyx ^ in., glabrous, the lips shortly- 

 toothed. Corolla twice the calyx, yellow, the standard veined with 

 purple. Pod 1-1^ in. long, straight or slightly curved ; upper sutur 



