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thoides, Jaub. <§• Spac?i. Bl. iii. QS, t. 254. E. horrida and ferruginea, Jaub. &■ 

 \ Spach. HI. p. 159-160. 



^^; Ptojab-Himalaya, alt. 4-8000 ft., Stewart— Distrib. Persia, Afghanistan, Beloo- 

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. Alow undershrub, densely armed with woody erecto-patent spines 1-1^ in. long. 

 Xeav^ shorter than the spines, digitatelytrifoliolate; leaflets lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 

 Bericeous, |-^ in. long. Flowers sessile in dense stalked heads, on peduncles at most 

 as long as the spines, each head surrounded by a whorl of large lanceolate bracts. 

 ^(tlt/x i m., densely clothed with long brown silky hairs. 



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• iTf °^^' -Z^eai^e^ with two pairs of leaflets. Flotoers in terminal racemes^ 

 with large membranous persistent veined ciliated persistent bracts. Calyx deeply 

 ^-hpped; upper lip entire, lower obscurely toothed. Corolla 2-^ iim&& Cdlyx ] 

 smndard roundish; keel obtuse. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform. 

 i^ary short-stalked, biovulate ; style incurved, stigma minute capitate. Joints 

 1 !f ^~~2, turgid in the middle^ with a distinct flat border, reticulately-veined, 

 iiseeded, indehiscent.— Distrib. Sp. 3, the other Trop. African. 



1' ^' ^^*s*ata, TV. ^ A. Prodr. 218 ; flowers not more than i as long 

 . i^ Jong-bristled bracts. Dalz, ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 62. Zornia disperma, Grah. 

 ^ iVall. Cat 5663. Hedysarum bijugum, Klein MSS. 



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Pe ^^ Western Peninsula, Ceylon, Ava, Maetaban, Tenasseeik, and 



A densely cgespitose trailing annual, with slender naked branches ^2 ft. long. 

 ^e$ petioled, with a very short rachis; leaflets obovate, oblique, glabrous, truncate, 

 r^ in long; stipules lanceolate, membranous, distinctly spurred. Heads dense, ter- 

 ve)] i~^ ^^' ^^^? ' bracts much imbricated, ^ in. broad, reniform, ciliated with firm 

 ^euo^y bristles ^ in. long. Calyx ^ in. long Corolla twice the calyx. Joints 1-2, 



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mvf ■ ®," *®»eHa, Benth. in Ilohen. PL Ind. Or. No. 659 ; flowers nearly or 

 luite as long as the short-tristled bracts. 



Western Peninsula. 

 point 11°^ the last, but much smaller. Leapts all four nearly from the same 

 nal \j* \^' ^°i^g.' obliquely obovate, truncate, glabrous. Eacemes copious, termi- 

 stpn„„i •^'^' -^-IS-flowered ; bracts obliquely oblong, less imbricated, H ^'^- ^f^^^^' 

 Jointsl T'"^^'' <=iliato-denticulate. Calyx i in., deeply cleft. Corolla yellow, ^ m., 



i, "With a flat edge, round, with a turgid centre. 



Herhs. 



31. ONOBRYCKZS 



numerous 



tinct^^'P^^^Jicled axillary racemes. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5, dis- 

 Stam '^''°^^^ ojuch exserted : standard broad ; wings short ; keel obtuse, 

 filifor ."^°°*<ielphou8 ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 1-2-OYulate ; style 

 hiscent i^°o"^^'^'^*^?™a terminal minute. Pod compressed, reniform, lude- 

 T)»Ti ol'^Tr .^^^'^®^' alveolate or echiuate.— Distbib. Species about 50, Euro- 

 Pwn and Onental. 



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"'',' ^azara, Dr. Stewart. Eawul Pindee, Dr. Aitchison. 

 Slender, 1^2 ft., glabrescent. Xea/-rachi3 3-4 in, long, including distinct 



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