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A very distinct species in foliage, and at once recognised by the alternate am- 



Jlexicaul upper leavcR, but the lower leaves, habit, flowers and fruit differ little fiom 

 . sulcata and ThomsonL' The stem is 4-angled, peduncles short, flowers fewer and 

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 pubescent, branched, stout, leaves large membranous long petioled opposite 

 alternate or whorled ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate crenulate, 

 pedicels slender solitary or fascicled, flowers large, sepals subulate falcate 

 standard obovate spurred at the back, wings small, lip deeply saccate 

 spur short abrupt mcurved. L multiflora, Wall Cat 4742; HJ.&l^}^^ 

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Tropical Himalaya, Sikkim, alt. 2-5000 ft., J, D.H,; Bhotan, Dupbla HiUsi 

 Booth; Assam, Siliiet, and Khasia Mts., alt. 0-3000 ft. . , 



Annual. Stem stout, succulent, 1^-2 ft., swollen at the nodes, simple^or wim^op- 



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 crenatures olten with bristles. Pedicels 4-1 in., glabrous, bracteate at ine ^^J?^ ""r 

 fascicled on a short peduncle. Flowers red or purple, IJ in. from the base of the lip to ine 

 tip of the standard, glabrous or pubescent; sepals very small for the size of the tlower, 

 standard galeate ; wings with two suborbicular lobes ; hp rounded at the base, ^"r/^^f 

 narrowed into a spur. Capsule {-% in., ellipsoid, quite glabrous. Seeds many, V^^^^' 

 testa rough opaque.— Specimens of this might be referred to sections B. i. and l^. n»^ 

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 leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate crenate acuminate eglandular, pe^'^^%'; 

 subterminal bracteate slender 1-flowered, flowers pubescent violet, sepais 

 broad standard orbicular notched dorsally winged, terminal lobe of ^i^o^ 

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 glabrous. Seeds immature.— In the Linnean Journal I confounded with tms ^ 

 variety p, a Khasia plant which I now find should be referred to /. lella, i''fY"°,„ than 

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 setaceous twisted or 0, flower large, sepals ovate-cordate, staiuiar" 

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