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Near the foot of the Tambacherry ghat in the plains of Malabar, about Poodoopara. 
as they go my specimens quite answer to Wallich's description of the Penang plant though it has 
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I have not seen the fruit, but as far 
not previously been found in India. 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
AlYSICARPUS RACEMOSUS. (Benth.) Stems pilose with longiah golden hairs, the upper leaves trifoliate the lower 
simple, leaflets oval to orbicular glabrous above at least in age silky beneath, the terminal ones 14-15 lines long by 9 lines broad the 
lateral ones small, petioles 3-5 lines long, stipules scariose setaceous 4-5 lines long, racemes lax aureo-pilose, pedicels 8-9 lines ion* 
slender, calyx segments setaceous nervoso-striate, legume exserted 3-6-articulated the lobes reticulated. Benth. in Linn. xxiv. 642. 
Rolampatty hills (Coimbatore) 2500 feet elevation, also on the Nilgiris. 
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GeISSASPIS CRISTATA. (WA.) Herbaceous procumbent, leaves equally pinnated, pinrne 2 pair cuneate obovata 
retuse slightly crenated, 5-6 lines long, racemes axillary and terminal on peduncles 1J inches long, bracts large orbicular manv-veined 
long ciliate on the margins, flowers soUtary in each bract small yellowish, legume 1-2-jointed tumid in the middle. WA. Prod.p. 218 
Coimbatore, Malabar and Tinnevelly. 
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StYLOSANTHES MUCRQNATA. (Willd.) Snffruticose branched spreading, branches shortly hirsute, stipules scariose 
bristly on the back adnate, leaves trifoliate about 1 inch long, leaflets rigid oblongo-ovate stiffly mucronate slightly ciliate with 
short stiff bristles, in age glabrous, under side when young a little hairy, 6-8 lines long by 2-3 lineB broad, veins prominent flowers 
axillary sessile and solitary or forming small few-flowered terminal imbricated spikes, bracts ciliate rather short, calyx tube villous 
about 2 lines deep the plumose rudimentary floret a little longer. Willd. Sp. 3 p. 1166 ;—WA. Prod. p. 218. 
A rather common undershrub in different parts of the Presidency, also in Africa, 
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MlLLETTIA SPLENDENS. (WA.) A lofty climber, young parts petioles and racemes clothed with golden or fulvous 
tomentum, leaves unequally pinnate, leaflets 2-3 pair with a terminal one oblongo-ovate to oblongo-lanceolate suddenly acuminate, 
rather undulate at the margins, glabrous above, silky beneath, 5-7 inches long by 2-3$ broad, panicles axillary 1$ feet long many 
flowered, the lateral branches short few flowered, pedicels 2-3 lines long, calyx short 4 cleft the upper segment the broadest entire or 
bifid, vexillum silky outside, the wings hairy, ovary 5-ovuled, legume very velvetty 2-4 inches long, 1-2 seeded. WA. Prod. p. 263. 
Eastern slopes of the Nilgiris ; the legumes in the drawing are very young. 
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VlGNA WlGHTII. (Benth.) Stems herbaceous climbing a little hairy or glabrous. Stipules very small lanceolate 
peltate, petioles l-2£ inches long, leaflets 3 membranaceous clothed with adpressed grey hairs on both sides the terminal one ovate- 
lanceolate acute 3-3| inches long, petioles 6-7 lines long, lateral ones more ovate and unequal sided a little smaller and on very short 
petiolules, peduncles much thickened 2-7 inches long, famished at the apex with 3-4 flowers, flowers large (l£ inch long) lilac very 
fragrant, calyx 5-6 lineB long the teeth linear subulate nearly equalling the tube, the 2 upper ones slightly connate at the base the 3 
lower equal all a little hirsute, corol 3-4 lines as long as the calyx, the inflexed auricles of the standard very prominent the keel curved 
at the point, pod linear straight terete 5 inches long blackish when ripe clothed with a very short pubescence, many seeded. 
Wynad and elsewhere on onr Western ghats up to 4060 feet, often called the Wynad sweet pea, its very fragrant beautiful 
flowers would render it a great favorite in gardens. 
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