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Stamens monadelphous. 



Leaves bipinnate. 



Pod thin, ligulate, the sutures not thickened . . - 128. AtBizziA. 



■ Pod large, turgid, oblong, indchisccnt, ihe sutures not 



thickened •ISO. Serianthes. 



Pod rather falcate, the sutures much thickened . '; .130. Calliandka. 



Podcirciuate 131. Pithecolobi«. 



LeaA'es simply pinnate ,• 132. Inga, 



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1. FZPTAKTKUS; D. Don. 



A shrub. Leaves' digitately S-foliolate. Flozve'rs racemed, bracteate, 

 Calyx-tube carapanulate ; teeth equal, lanceolate. Corolla three times the calyx; 

 T>fttals all with lonff claws : standard orbicular, erect, margins, reflexed ; wings 



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Stamens 



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style filiform, incurved; stigma minute terminal. Pod linear, flattened, con- 

 tinuous within. — DiSTRiB. A single endemic species. 



1. P. nepalensis, D. Don in Siveet, Brit, Flotver Gard. t. 264; Branl 

 For. Flor. 132. Thermopsis nepaulensis, DC, Prodr. ii. 99. T. laburnifolia, 

 Do/i Prodr. 239. Baptisia? nepalensis, FTook, ExoL Flor. t. 131. Anagyris 

 nepalensis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5340. A. indica, Lii/idl. in Trans. Hort. Soc, 

 vii. 245. * ■ '- ^ 



Temperate Himalaya, from Simla to Bhotax, alt. 7-9000 ?t. ' 

 A shrub 6-10 feet high ; habit of the laburnum ; branches downy. Stipules small 

 connate, amplexicaul; petiole 1 in. or less; leaflets glabrescent, lanceolate, 2-4 in.^ 

 narrowed to both ends. Floivers 12-20 in subdense racemes; bracts large, de- 

 ciduous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx downy, deciduous from the base/ Corolla yellow, above 

 I in, long. Pod 2-5 in,, 3-10-8eeded. 



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Perennial herbs. Leaves stipulate, 3-foliolate ; bracts large, leafy, free. 

 Flowers showy, usually yellow, racemed. Cahjx-tidye turbinate ; teeth lanceo- 

 late ; two upper more or less connate. Petals all long-clawed ; standard orbicu- 

 lar, sides reflexed; wings obovate; keel-petals obovate-oblong, faintly joined 

 down the back. Stamens free; anthers uniform-. Ovary linear, sessile ot 

 stalked, oc-ovxilate; style filiform, incun^ed ; stigma minute terminal. . Po^ 

 turgid, linear or oblong, straight or falcate, continuous within. — DistbIB. 

 Species 12, China, Japan, N. America. 



1. T. barbata, Royh PL 19G, t. 32, fig. 1 ; densely shaggy, leaflets 

 oblanceolate, corolla deep purple, pod linear-oblong. Hook. Pot, May. t. 4868. 

 Anagj'ris barbata, Grah. in JValL Cat. 5341. 





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Tempkratk and SunALrixE HiMALAyA, from Kashmir and Kttnawar to SiKKiifi 

 ascending to 11,000 ft. 



Pootstock woody. Stems 1 ft. oy more, copiously branched dichotomously. leaver 

 sessile, subglabrescent, often opposite ; stipules just like the leaflets in texture anJ 

 shape. /Y<?«7^5 5-12, short-stalked, opposite or X^'^^.^.TCaXyx shaggy, like tb© 

 leaves, 3 lower teeth twice the tube. Corolla 1 in, long. Pod short -stalked, ^-f i^' 

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