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| Flemingia (John Fleming, Pres. Medical Board of Bengal; author of "A Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs," 1810). Leguminosae. Of this genus, two shrubs are cultivated in southern California and southern Florida. | | Flemingia (John Fleming, Pres. Medical Board of Bengal; author of "A Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs," 1810). Leguminosae. Of this genus, two shrubs are cultivated in southern California and southern Florida. |
| Herbs, sub-shrubs or shrubs of the Old World tropics, erect, prostrate or twining: lvs. mostly with 3 digitate lfts., rarely 1; stipules striate, often caducous: fls. papilionaceous, red or purple and mixed with yellow, in crowded racemes or panicles, or sometimes solitary; standard obovate or orbicular, auricled at base; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, often adhering to the incurved or nearly straight keel; stamens 9 and 1: pod short, oblique, swollen, 2-valved.—Species above 20, mostly of Trop. Asia, but occurring also in Trop. Afr. and to the Philippines. Allied to Dalbergia and Rhynchosia. | | Herbs, sub-shrubs or shrubs of the Old World tropics, erect, prostrate or twining: lvs. mostly with 3 digitate lfts., rarely 1; stipules striate, often caducous: fls. papilionaceous, red or purple and mixed with yellow, in crowded racemes or panicles, or sometimes solitary; standard obovate or orbicular, auricled at base; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, often adhering to the incurved or nearly straight keel; stamens 9 and 1: pod short, oblique, swollen, 2-valved.—Species above 20, mostly of Trop. Asia, but occurring also in Trop. Afr. and to the Philippines. Allied to Dalbergia and Rhynchosia. |