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102 L. LEGUMixOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [IncUgofera, 



coated -with sliort adpresscd grey hairs. Racemes short-peduncled, modemtely close, 

 1-3 in, long; pedicels short; bracts exceeding the buds, usually hoat-shaped "with a 

 cusp. Calyx ^ in. long, argcnteo-canescent ; teeth short deltoid. Corolla bright 

 red, glabrous externally, the largest of all the species, generally §-^ in., reaching 

 ^-^ in, long, the standard § in. broad, reflexed in the expanded floirer. Pod straight, 

 turgid, glabrous, l^-lf in. long, 8-12-seeded, the sutures broader than in the 

 preceding. • 



38, X. Dosua, Ilamilt,] DC. Prodr. ii, 225; slirubby^ branclies densely 

 pubescent, leaflets small linear-oblono: 21-31, stipellai abortive, bracts exceeding- 

 the buds. Don Prodr, 244 ; Wall Cat. 6481 A, nan J?, nee Hot Reg, 28, t. 57. 

 L heterantba, Wall. Cat. 5480 C, ex parte. I. virgata, Roxh. Fl. Iml. iii. 383? 



Temfekate Cextral and East Himalai'as ; Simla to Bhotan and Assam, 

 6-8000 ft, 



A low shrub, with woody branches, clothed with short spreading grey or- 

 brownish pubescence. Leaves subsessile, 1-3 in. long; leaflets usually opposite, mem- 

 branous, obtuse, ^— ^ in. long, dull green above, glaucous below, more or less densely 

 pubescent. Racemes distinctly peduncled, moderately close, 1-3 in. long; bracts ^ in. 

 long, lanceolate-cuspidate, silky ; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ in., densely silky ; 

 teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla bright reel, glabrous, |— J in. Pod straight, glabrescent, 

 1-1^ in, long, 8-12-seeded, with very broad sutures. 



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Var. tomentosn ; branches clothed with dense brown silky pubescence, leaves 

 6-9 in, long, leaflets 41-51 often subacute and 1 in. long, racemes longer, bracts 

 densely brown- velvety, with a very long^, cusp, I. tomentosa, Grak, in Wall. 

 Cat. 5487- I. stachyodes, Lindl Pot. Reg. 1843, t. 14.— Khasia, Sikkim, Silhet, 

 Bhotan, l-oOOO ft. 



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39. X. mysorensis, Rottl. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 222 ; Wall. Cat. 5469 ; IF. ^- A. 



Prodr. 202. I. polyphylla, Heync MSS., non. DC. 



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Plains of the Carxatic, Heyne. 



A low erect copiously-branched sJirid), the young stems slender, clothed -with 

 short spreading grey pubescence. Learns sessile, of the main branches 1-3 in, long; 

 leaflets 11-21, oblong, membranous, opposite, |-^ in. long, thinly clothed on both 

 sides with adpressed grey hairs ; stipules setaceous, \ in., persistent. Racemes lax, 

 elongated, more or less panicled, each flower subtended by a bract just like the leaflets, 

 and the branches furnished low down "with 3-5-foIiolate leaves. Calyx ^ in. ; teeth 

 lanceolate, very long. Corolla red, glabrous, twice the calyx. Pod linear-cylindrical, 

 straight, ^-| in, long, 4-6-seeded, finely pubescent. 



SuBGEX. 4, Amecarpus, Bentli. Ovary with at least two ovules. 

 Pod linear, unarmed, flattened. 



40, X. anabaptista, Steud. Xom. edit. 2, 805. I. Iloclistetteri, Bakei' 



in Oliv. Flor. Trap. Africa^ ii. 101. I. ornithnpodioides, Ilochst. et Steud. in 

 Schimp.Iib. Arab. No. 70i); Jaub. et SpacJi III PI Orient, t. 480; Roiss* 

 FL Orient, ii. 188, non Schum. et TJionn. ' 



■Plains of SciXDKand the Punjab.— Distrib. Afghanistan, Arabia, Nile -country. 



_A diffuse annual, with stems 1 fl. or more long, thinly clothed with adpressed 

 Vfhite hs.ivs. Leaves short-petioled ; leaflets 3-7, opposite, oblanceolate ^-1 in, long. 

 Racemes short-peduncled, closely 12-20-flowercd, under an inch loTig. > Valyx yin.. 

 argenteo-canescent ; teetl^. setaceous. .: ^QTotta scarcely exserted. Pod linear, refiexed 

 4-| in. long, iR-8-seeded. ' "^ .^ - ,.-. .. 



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