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chopoda in the flowers and their arrangement, but differs entirely 

 in the leaves. 



Stems very slender, suffruticose, terete, copiously branched, with ascend- 

 ing branchlets densely clothed with fine, variously directed, white, 

 pellucid hairs as long as, or longer than, their diameter. Stipules 

 minute, setaceous. Leaves very minute, nearly sessile, simple and 

 trifoliolate intermixed; leaflets obovate, cuneate in the lower half, 

 usually not more than a line long, complicate, digitate, subacute, 

 clothed with hairs similar to those of the branches, but shorter. 

 Flowers copious, solitary or rarely geminate on a thread-like, nearly 

 naked, ascending peduncle 3-4 lines long. Calyx \ line deep, densely 

 firmly pilose ; teeth deep, linear. Corolla reddish, three times as long 

 as the calyx, externally pilose. Staminal sheath | inch long. Pod 

 cylindrical, sessile, §— § inch long, at first obscurely hispid, finally gla- 

 brescent, dark brown, straight, many-seeded, not at all torulose. 



I. dissitiflora, Baker. Suffruticosa, ramulis gracillimis teretibus ob- 

 scure pilosis, stipulis setaceis, foliis petiolatis pinnatis, foliolis 1-4-jugis 

 lineari-subulatis oppositis pallide viridibus setis paucis adpressis, ra- 

 cemis laxe 3-5-floris pedunculatis, calyce minuto dense griseo-his- 

 pido dentibus lanceolatis, petalis parvis purpureis, ovario cylindrico 



multiovulato. 



Belongs to section Dissitiflor ^e,next Lpentaphylla y Linn., which 

 it closely resembles in the flowers, but differs entirely in its 

 leaflets and shrubby habit. 



Stem erect, suffruticose, with copious, very slender erecto-patent 

 branches clothed only with a few scattered, adpressed, bristly hairs. 

 Stipules minute, setaceous, persistent. Leaves of main stem an inch 

 long, distinctly stalked, with 3-4 distant pairs of opposite, linear- 

 subulate leaflets, which are £inch long, grey-green, pointed, narrowed 

 at the base, rather thick in texture, clothed only with a few obscure 

 adpressed hairs like those of the branches. Leaves of branches often 

 with only 3-5 leaflets. Racemes about as long as the leaves, laxly 

 3-5-flowered, distinctly stalked. Bracts minute, subulate. Pedicels 

 nearly or quite as long as the calyx. Calyx £ a line deep, densely 

 bristly; teeth lanceolate, as long as the broadly funnel-shaped tube. 

 Corolla purplish, three times as long as the calyx, shortly bristly. 

 Ovary cylindrical, multiovulate. Ripe pod not seen. 



I. Cameron i. Baker. Fruticosa, ramulis gracillimis teretibus obscure 

 pilosis, stipulis minutis setaceis, foliis pinnatis breviter petiolatis,foliolis 

 2-3-jugis oblongis subcoriaceis utrinque tenuiter pilosis, racemis densis 

 brevibus conicis sessilibus folio brevioribus, calyce minuto oblique 

 campanulato argenteo-sericeo dentibus deltoideis, petalis angusti* 

 clongatis extus brunneo-sericeis, ovario cylindrico multiovulato. 



