64 L. LEGUMINOS-S). (J. G. Baker.) [Argyrohlium. 



Tropical and Temperate tracts of north-west India, ascending from the plains to 



0000 ft, 



A shnib with very slender diffuse branches reaching 12-18 in. high. Shpules 



minute, linear, persistent ; petioles much shorter than the leaves ; leaflets pale, silky, 

 subequal, lanceolate, acute, |-^ in. long. Flowers 1-6 in leaf-opposed racemes on 

 peduncles that exceed the leaves. Calyx i-| in. ; teeth shorter than the limb. Fod 

 densely silky, 6-8-seeded, | in. hvoad.—Cj/tisus latiguinosus, Eoyle MSS., is a form 

 with more densely silky vestiture, 



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2. A. roseum, Jaub, 4* Sjmch, in Ann, Sc, Nat, ser. ii. xix. 51 ; end leaflet 

 obovate-cuneate very obtuse, upper lip of calyx shorter tlian lower, teeth all 

 lanceolate. Oj-tisus roseus, Camb, in Jacq, Toy. Bot. iv. 35, t. 40. A. ornithopo- 

 dioides, Jaub. §• Spach^ loc. cit, ; III. PL Orient. I 116. A. Kotscliyi, Boiss- 

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Tkotical and Subtemperate tracts of the north-west, ascending from the plains 

 to 7000 ft. in KuMAOx. — Distrib. Persia- 

 General habit of A. flaccidum, but nearly or quite glabrous. Stipules the same: 

 petioles as long as or shorter than the leaves ; leaflets ^ in. long, often nearly ^ 

 broad, point truncate or emarginate. Peduncles 1-4-flowered, exceeding the leaves. 

 Calyx \ in., glabrous; teeth of upper lip exceeding limb. Corolla yellow tinged witn 

 red; standard longer than upper lip of calyx. Pod glabrous, 10-15-seeded, ^^ in, 

 broad. — A. trigonelloides, J". ^ S., with a similar habit, but a shorter flatter pod witfl 

 much fewer seeds, will probably be found in Scinde, 



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5. LOTONONXS, DO. 



Herbs or shrubs vrith digitately trifoliolate leaves, stipules connate or free, 

 flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes or umbels. Calyx-tvhe narrow- 

 turbinate; lowest tooth deeper than the other 4. Corolla little exserted; 

 standard very narrow ; wings sliorter ^nd still narrower ; keel longer, suddenly 

 incurved at the tip, its petals firmly joined along the l^k. Stamens united ia 

 a tube slit along the top -, anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile, linear, oc-ovulate; 

 style abruptly incurved at the l)ase, stigma minute oblique. Pod linear, 

 usually compressed, but in our species turgid.— Disxrib. Species 60, nearly all 

 restricted to South ^Vfrica. 



1. Ii. Zieobordea, Benth. in Sook: timd. Tmrn. ii. 607. Leobordea 



lotoides, Delile Fraym. PI, Arab. 23, tab. 1. 



ScixDE ; between the plains and Rohill pass, Stocks. Punjab ; Peshawur, Stewart- 

 DisTuiB. Through the desert region to Algeria, Abyssinia and the Cape. 



A much-branched finely silky diffuse annual, \ ft. or less high. Stipules minute 

 lanceolate, deciduous ; petiole as long as leaf; leaflets oblanceolate, rather fleshy, obtuse, 

 minutely mucronate, \^ in. Flowers 1-5, subsessile in axils of most of the leaves. 

 Calyx silky, \~\ in. Corolla pale yellow or red, scarcely exserted. Pod linear-obloD& 

 turgid, 4-8-seeded, scarcely exserted. 



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Catyx-tube turbinate ; teeth lanceolate, three lowest deepest. CoroZfo mtich 

 exserted ;^ standard large, roimd| wings muck smaller, obovate; Tceel-petals 

 narrow, joined along tne back, narrowed into an incurved l)eak. Stame^^ 

 united in a tube slit above ; anthers dimorpbous. Ovary sessile, 2-ovulate ; style 



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