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XLIII. LEGUMINOSjE. 
67. FLEMINGIA, ltoxb. 
(After John Fleming.) 
Calyx-lobes nearly equal or the lowest longer. Standard oval obovate or 
orbicular, with indexed auricles at the base, often callous inside ; keel incurved, 
obtuse or acute ; wings usually rather shorter. Vexillary stamen free, the others 
united ; anthers uniform. Ovary short, sessile or nearly so, with 2 ovules ; style 
filiform, incurved above the middle and often slightly thickened ; stigma terminal. 
Pod very oblique, short, turgid, 2-valved. Seeds with a short hilum without any 
strophiole. — Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, rarely twining, usually tomentose or 
pubescent and sprinkled with resinous dots. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate or 1- 
foliolate, without stipellte, the veins of the leadets very prominent underneath. 
Stipules usually dry, striate, deciduous. Flowers purple-reddish, or mixed with 
yellow, in panicles or spike-likes racemes. Bracts either like the stipules or, in 
species not Australian, large, leafy, concave, enclosing the dowers. Bracteoles 
none. 
The genus is most numerous in tropical Asia, with one or two African species. Of the 
Australian species, 2 are common to E. India and the Archipelago, the other 2 are endemic. 
The species with large leafy bracts forming the section Ustry odium , DC., common in the 
Archipelago, have not yet been found in Australia. The habit and foliage of the genus are 
almost those of some Genistew, from which tribe, however, it is readily distinguished i>y the free 
upper stamen. Several species also resemble some Psoralens, but the ovary and pod are quite 
different. — Bentli. 
Flowers in small loose panicles 1. F. lineata. 
Flowers 2 or 3 on a short axillary peduncle 2. F. pauciflora. 
Flowers in axillary oblong spike like racemes 3. F. parvifiora. 
Flowers in dense globular sessile heads 4. F. involucrata. 
1. F. lineata (lined), Roxb.; DC. Prod. ii. 851 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 268. 
An erect undershrub or low shrub with slender branches, the young parts and 
indorescence minutely rusty-tomentose, the foliage at length nearly glabrous. 
Leadets 3, from obovate-cuneate to elliptical-oblong or broadly lanceolate, obtuse 
or acute, 14 to 3in. long. Stipules and bracts small, usually persistent. Flowers 
small, secund and loosely racemose along the branches of small irregular axillary 
or terminal panicles. Calyx minutely tomentose, about 3 lines long, the lobes 
much falcate, longer than the tube. Standard broad, scarcely exceeding the 
calyx ; keel at least as long, much curved, acute ; wings rather shorter. Pod 
very oblique, about 4 to 6 lines long and 3 lines broad. — Wight, Ic. t. 327. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller ; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Burdekin River and Denison 
Creek, Bowman; Port Denison and Edgecombe Bay, Dallacliy. 
The species is widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago. — Bentli. 
2. r. pauciflora (few-dowered), Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 269. A low perennial 
or undershrub, with the habit of F. parvifiora, but softly silky-pubescent or 
villous all over. Leadets 3, from obovate to elliptical-oblong, obtuse or softly 
mueronate, 1 to 2in. long. Stipules narrow, acuminate, often persistent. 
Flowers small, 2 or 3 together, almost sessile, on short axillary peduncles. 
Bracts narrow, silky, persistent. Calyx silky, the tube very short, the lobes 
narrow, acuminate, often 3 lines long. Petals shorter than the calyx-lobes. 
Standard rather broad ; keel obtuse. Pod very oblique, as broad as long, 
attaining nearly ^in. 
Hab.: Victoria River, F. v. Mueller ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborouyh. 
3. F. parvifiora (small-dowered), Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 269. A low peren- 
nial or undershrub, with rather slender prostrate or ascending stems, rarely 
exceeding 1ft., loosely pubescent, almost silky when young. Leadets 3, from 
obovate-cuneate and 1 to 14in. long to ovate-lanceolate and 3 to 4in. long, usually 
very rugose. Stipules very deciduous. Flowers small, pink, in short dense 
