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37. LEGUMINOS^. 



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20. RYNCHOSIA, Lour. 



Erect or twiuing shrubs. Leaves pinnaiely trifoliate, gland- 

 dotted. Flowers axillary or racemed. Calyx-tube short, teeth 

 sometimes broad foliaceons. Corolla included, or exserted; keel 

 incurved. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Style long 

 filiform^ sti" ma capitate. Pod usually continuous between the seeds, 

 deeply torulose, flat, turgid ; seeds arillate. 



R. cyanosperma, Renth. in Oliv. El. Trop. Africa. II. 218; Fl. Br. 1. 

 2. 222. Cijanospermum tomentosuvi, W. & A. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 75. 



Forests of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. Evergreen forests of 

 the South Konkan and North Kanara, nowhere abundant. Fl. Fr. C. S. 



21. FLEMINGIA, Koxb. 



Shrubs. Leaves simple or trifoliate, gland-dotted beneath. In- 

 florescence various, pedicels short not bracteolate. Calyx-tube short. 

 Corolla usually not exserted, keel obtuse or slightly rostrate. 

 Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform. Style filiform, stigma 

 capitate. Pod small, turgid, usually 2-seeded j seeds without a 

 strophiole. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers in small cymes, eacli in the axil o£ a large 



folded persistent bract ... ... 1, 7^, strohilifera^ 



Leaves digitately trifoliate. 



Flowers in dense sub-spicate axillary racemes, 



bracts linear, cadncous ... ... 2. F. congesta. 



Flowers in globose heads, bracts large, persistent ... 3. F. involucrata. 



1. P. strobilifera, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. 2. IV. 350 ; FL Br. 

 L 2. 227 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. FL 75. Kanhuti, Vern. 



Himalayas from Simla to Assam, Khasia, Siam, Malacca aud Ceylon. 

 Throughout the moist forests of the Konkan and North K4nara, common. 

 Bracts often with sterile flowers. Fl. Fr. R. and 0. S. A small shrub. 



2. P. congesta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 ; Fl. Ind. III. 340 ; FL Br. I. 



2. 228 ; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. FL 75 ; Var. nana, F, procumhens, Roxb. ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 75. Dow dowla, Yern. 



Central Himalayas to Ceylon and Malacca. Throughout the Presidency 

 the var. semialata, is very common in the moist forests of the Konkan and 

 North Kanara. Flowers throughout the year. A low diffuse under-shrub. 



3. P- involucrata, Benth. PI. Jungh. 246 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 229. 



Eastern Himalayas, Assam and Sikhim. In the deciduous forests of 

 the Konkan and North Kanara : a gregarious shrub growing in the open 

 glades. Fl. R. S. Fr. Noy.-Feb. 



22. DALBERGIA, Linn.f. 



Trees or climbers. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets alternate. 

 Flowers copious, small, in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx cam- 



