142 L. legum[NOSjE. (J. G, Baker.) ^Lespedeza. 



petiole; leaflets 9-11, oblanceolate, subacute, distant, ^| in. long, obscurely canes- 

 cent; stipules linear, minute. Racemes long-peduncled, 6-9 in. long, lax; buds 

 crowded ; pedicels very short ; bracts linear, minute. Calyx campanulate, ^ in., 

 silky ; teeth lanceolate. Corolla 3—1 times calyx ; standard glabrous, veined. ^ Pod 

 reniform, turgid, |-| in., 1-seeded; faces woody, deeply alveolate ; edge muricated 

 with close minute spines. A second species, of which we have a scrap from Hazara, 

 gathered by Winterbottom, with oblong obtuse leaflets and a much larger calyx and 

 corolla agrees, as far as the material goes, with 0, heteropJiylla, C. A. Meyer ; Led. 

 Fl. Eoss. i. 711, from Persia and the Caucasus. 



82. X.Z:SPEDZ:ZA,Micli. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves exstipellate, trifoliolate. Floweis copious, in 

 racemes, or crowded in the leaf-axils. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth lan- 

 ceolate or linear. Corolla exserted ; standard broad ; keel obtuse or acute. 

 ;S5fa?rte?i^s diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or stipitate, 1-ovulate; 

 style long, filiform, incurved ; stigma minute, terminal. Pod small, oblong, com-, 

 pressed, 1-seeded, reticulato-venose, indehiscent. — Distrib. Species 20-25, the 

 others Siberian, Chinese, Japanese^ and N. American, one Javan. Monographed 

 lately by Maximowicz. 



Sttbgen. ZSulespedeza. Ked obtuse, not much incurved. 



1. Zi. sericea, Miq. Ann. Mvs. Lug. Bat. iii. 49 : petiole short, leaflets 

 small linear-cuneate 4-6 times as long as broad grey- or white silky beneath, 

 flowers 2-4 congested in the leaf-axils, pod small sessile. Hedysarum sericeuni; 

 Thunb. Jap. 289. Aspalathus cuneata, Don Prodr. 246. L. cuneata, G, Do^h 

 Gen. SysL ii. 307. Anthyllis cuneata, i>wm. 5o^. Cult vi. 100. L. juncea, 

 Wall Cat. 5743; DC. Prodr. ii. 348 in part^ non Pers. L, argyrsea, Sieb. ei 

 Zucc. Abh. vi. 2, 120. 



Along the Himalayas from Hazara and Kashmir to Assam, alt. 3-8000 ft.— ' 

 Distrib. China, Japan, N. Australia. 



An erect undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, with tough long slender branches. Ledves 

 ascending, crowded ; leaflets ^-J in. long, rigidly coriaceous, truncate or emarginate, 

 narrowed gradually in the lower half, very variable in vestiture, usually glabrous 

 above, clothed with adpressed grey or white silky hairs below, rarely both sides clothed 

 ■with loose white pubescence ; petiole | in. Flowers 2-4, on short pedicels in the axils all 

 down the branch; bracteoles linear, minute. Calyx -^^-^ in., canescent ; teeth lineal? 

 subulate, very long. Corolla twice the calyx, white, tinged with purple. Pod ^ iQ«» 

 thinly silky ; style twice its length, 



2. Zi. juncea, Pers. Eneh. ii, 318 ; petiole short, leaflets small oblanceolate 

 3-4 times as long as broad thinly grey-silky beneath, flowers 2-6 in umbels sessile 

 or shortly peduncled in the leaf-axils, corolla small; pod small sessile. P^* 

 Prodr. ii. 848 in part, non Wall. Hedysarum junceum, Linn. fil. Dec. i. t. 4. 

 L. variegata and L. kanaorensis, Caynb. in Jacquetn. Voy. Bot. 42, t. 50^ 51. 



Kashmir and Ktjnawar^ temperate region, alt. 4-8000 ft. — Distrib. Siberia, North 

 China. 



Stems sUnder, 1-2 ft. high, finely downy, erect or decumbent. Leaves not nearly 

 so crowded as in the last ; leaflets J— | in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, obtuse, narro'ff'ca 

 gradually in the lower half ; petioles |-^ in. Umbels usually sessile, produced f*^ 

 down the branches. Co/j^j:!-^ in., canescent; teeth linear-setaceous, 3-4 times the 

 tube. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod and style as in L. sericea. 



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