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$2 L. LEGUMi^os^. (J.G.Baker.) ICrotalam. 



•hes often stiff clothed vnth s 

 iceolate leaflets, racemes 3-6-i 



>. 191 ; Benth, in Hook. Lonci 



6435. 0. arenistoides, Willcl. 



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Western Penikstila. 



Perennial, reaching 2-3 ft. high, with very numerous ascending elongated hranclies. 

 Stipules small, setaceous, persistent; leaflets f-^ in. long, firm, obtuse, emarginate, 

 silky on both sides. Racemes copious, terminal and lateral; bracts minute, Imear- 

 setaceous, persistent. Calyx ^ in. long, finely do-wny; teeth linear, exceeding the 

 tube. Corolla yellow ; keel with a narrower and longer beak than in the last. Fod 

 pubescent, ^ in. long. 



65. C. trifoliastrum, ]VillcL Sp. PL iii. 983 ; herbaceous, branches elong- 

 ated ascending finely downy, petioles exceeding the obovate-oblong leaflets, 

 Tftcemes elongated 12-40-flowered, corolla thrice the calvx. Roxh. FL I'no. 

 iii, 277 ; WaiL Cat. 6432, excL G. H. ; W. ^- A. Prodr. 191 ; Wight Ic. t. 421. 

 C. virgata, Roxh. in E. I. C. Mas. tab. 373. 0. medicaginea^ DC. P)'odr. ii. 133. 

 O. stricta, Roth. ; DC. Pi^odr. ii. 133. Lupinus trifoliatxis, Rottl in Nov. Act 

 Ber. iv. 223,1. 5. 0. atipitata; Grah. in Wall Cat. 5425, A. 



Assam and Western Peninsula.. 



An erect perennial 2-3 ft, high, with numerous erecto-patent slender brandies. 

 Petioles i\n inch or more; stipules minute, setaceous; leaflets membranous, ^1 '^^' 

 long, glabrous above, obscurely silky below, obtuse at the point, often deeply emar- 

 ginate. Racemes copious, both terminal and lateral, short-peduncled, reaching 4-6 in. 

 long ; bracts minute, setaceous. Calyx ^ in. long, finely silky ; teeth linear, twice the 

 length of the tube. Corolla yellow, glabrous. Pod subquadrangular, sessile, thinlj 

 fiilky, J in. long. . . 



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scurely silky, leaflets middle-sized obovate-oblong, racemes closely 12-20- 

 flowered, corolla 2-3 times the calyx. Wight Ic. t. 752. 0. trifoliastrum, W^l^- 

 Cat. 5432, G. C. rostrata, W. ^- A. Prodr. 191. 



Nn^mius and Pclnky Mouxtaixs. . 



Branches firm, ascending, terete, clothed with minute grey silky hairs. Stipuh 

 setaceous, persistent, ^ in, ; petioles shorter than the leaflets ; leaflets cuneate in the 

 lower half, reaching 1-1^ in. long, green and glabrous above, thinly silky bejo*- 

 Eaceincs copious, short-peduncled lateral and terminal, 1-3 in, long; bracts staall. 

 setaceous. Calyx thinly silky, ^ in. long ; teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube. 

 Corolla yellow ; keel with a very long beak. Pod ^ in. long, subquadrangular, thinly 

 silky. 



Heijne] DC. Prodr. ii. 133; shrubby, branchl 

 lets minute obcordate, racemes 2-6"flowered 



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times the calyx. W. ^ A. Prodr. 191. 



Carxatic, Heyne, G. Thomson. 



A low shrub with very numerous woody subpatent branches, the old ones glal^ 

 scent, the copious branchlets almost spiny in old plants. Stipules setaceous, very 

 "inute; petiole very short; leaflets pale green, thick, obscurely silky, not more thao 

 in. long. Racemes copious, close, all terminal ; bracts linear, very minute. Ca^y^ 

 in. long, thinly silky ; teeth lanceolate, equalling the tube. Corolla yellow, glabrous: 

 ►eak of keel long and narrow. Pod ^ in. long, thinly silky. . > -., - 



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