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XLVII. LEGUMINOS^E. 
[Clitoria. 
Shrub about 3 ft. tall, branched pilose. Leaves 2 to 3*5 in. 
long; petioles 'i in. long; leaflets 3, elliptic obtuse, base cuneate, 
coriaceous, finely reticulate, grey hairy beneath, 2 to 3 in. long, 
•75 to 1 in. wide. Flowers 1 to 2 on axillary peduncles 2 in. long, 
reversed. Calyx ‘75 in. long. Corolla 1*5 to 2 in. long; standard 
1-5 in. wide, pale violet to white with purple spot at base. Pod 
turgid, 1*25 in. long, *35 in. wide, glabrous, a rib along each valve- 
face. Seeds 5 to 7 globose, viscid adhesive. Hab. Common by 
roadsides in Singapore. Johor, Tebrau. Malacca, Bukit Sabukor. 
Selangor, Langat. Negri Sembilan, Rembau (Cantley). Native 
names : Beluntas Padi; Rumput Sabusuk ; Rumput Turi. 
A native of Brazil, but now introduced into Java, Siam and Borneo 
by cattle, to whose hair the viscid seeds adhere. Earliest date 1844 Malacca 
(Griffith). 
12 . TERAMNUS, Sw. 
Twining herb. Leaflets 3. Calyx campanulate, teeth sub¬ 
equal. Corolla little exsert; petals about equal; standard not 
spurred. Stamens monadelphous, alternate; anthers abortive. 
Ovary sessile; ovules many; style short, beardless. Pod linear 
hooked at tip by the style flattened, septate between seeds. 
Species 4, tropics. 
(1) T. labialis Spreng. Syst. iii. 235; Baker, l.c. 184; Prain, 
Lc. 79. 
Slender twiner sparsely hairy. Leaves 2*5 to 4-5 in. long; 
petioles i'5 in. long; leaflets 3, membranous ovate-oblong, base 
round, tip sub-acute or obtuse, terminal 1 to 2'5 in. long, ‘75 to 
1 - 5 in. wide, laterals smaller sparsely hairy beneath. Racemes 
lax axillary 8- to 12-flowered, 2 to 3 in. long; pedicels '2 in. long, 
fascicled above. Calyx *15 in. long. Corolla '25 in. long, reddish; 
standard emarginate. Pod glabrous linear recurved, 1*5 to 2 in. 
long, *2 in. wide. Seeds 8 to 12. Hab. Open rocky spots, rare. 
Penang (Wallich 1822, No. 5518). Perlis, Kanga. Distrib. 
Tropics. 
13 . DXOCLEA, H.B.K. 
Woody climbers. Leaves trifoliate sub-coriaceous. Flowers 
often appearing without the leaves in elongate racemes, blue or 
pink. Bracts long caducous. Calyx campanulate; teeth short, 
upper 2 connate. Corolla large; keel incurved not beaked. 
Stamens monadelphous, upper stamen free below, connate with 
the others in the middle; anther perfect, the other anthers alter¬ 
nately perfect and abortive. Ovary sub-sessile, hairy; style 
incurved glabrous. Pod oblong, turgid, 1- to 3-seeded, flattened 
along upper suture. Species 17 to 18, all tropical American except 
these two. 
Leaflets glabrescent; flowers 75 in. long . . . (1) D. reflexa 
Leaflets velvety beneath; flowers 1 in. long . . (2) D. javanica 
