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li. LEauMiNOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 



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lanceolate grey-silky below, umbels sessile or sbort-peduncled in the axils of 

 tlie leaves, corolla large, pod small sessile. 



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to SiKKIM. 



^ Stems 1-3 ft., densely pubescent. Leaves moderately close, ascending ; leaflets 



t~i in. long, rigidly coriaceous, glabrescent on the upper side, densely grey-silky be- 



w; petioles |-;j^ in. Umbels 4:~S~fioweYGd, usually sessile ; bracteoles linear, half as 



long as the calyx. Cal^x ^ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear- subulate, 2-3 times 



the tube. Corolla |-| in.; keel tipped with purple. Pot^ considerably shorter than the 

 calvx. 





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:! 4. 1,. eleg*ans, Camb. in Jacque7n, Voy. BoL 43, t 52; upper leaves 

 suppressed, petiole produced, leaflets oblong grey-silky beneath, umbels sessile, 

 pod, small sessile. Maxim. St/nop. Gen, Lesp. 40, 



>^^rKASHMiR, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., Jacquemont, ThoTmon, 

 ^^ Stems 2~^ ft., finely downy. Petiole ^| in.; leaflets J-| in. long, obtuse, gla- 

 ^brescent above, densely grey-silky beneath. Flowers 6-8, in sessile umbels, rarely in 

 snort racemes, reaching low down the branches and forming at the top a close leafless . 

 panicle. Calyx ^-^ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, very long. Corolla 

 iiaU as long again as the calyx. Pod ^ in. long, oblong, downy. 



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_ 6. t, elliptica, Senth. Cat Griff. PI. No. 1745; petiole produced, leaflets 

 |*rge obovate-oblong thinly grey-canescent beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes 

 lae upper panicled, pod stipitate exserted, Maxim. Synops. Gen. Lesp. 27. 



Khasia, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., GHffith, Hook.fiL and Thomson. 

 leafl ^ ^o'^dy, reaching several feet high, finely pubescent. Leahies not crowded; 

 l^,^^^,??ihcoriaceous, l-l| in. long, obtuse, green, glabrous above, grey, finely downy 

 tiTn^* petiole 1-1 1. in. Racemes many-flowered, close or lax, the peduncles some- 



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as th ^^ \^^ ^^ ^^^^ leaves ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles linear, as long 

 e tube. Calyx ^-\ in., densely canescent ; teeth lanceolate, acute, t^-ice as long 



"* " " as the calyx. Pod oblong, h in. long. 



^ the tube. 



Llvrl * C'oro/Za deep red, twice as long 



Lei in^ P^^' *^!®^^^^^ly stalked.— Very near the common East Asian L. bkolor, Turcz. 



acute 1 ^^^' ^' ^^^ (^- viatorum. Champion), from which it differs mainly by its long 





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oDova.t*''vf**™®^*°**' '^*^^- ■' -^«'^""»- Synops. 50 ; petiole short, leaflets larg-a 

 mclnH^ TT°^ densely downy beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes, pod sessile 

 I)n^' , ^^^'iysaruni tomentosum, ThunI). Fl. Jap. 286. L. glomerata, ^i; 

 fU iVo(;r. 11. 350. 



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CliinoT^^^ Himalaya, temperate region, alt 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth. —DisTmB. 

 •^°^' Japan, Korea. 



tuse t^^1. ^""^/*"' ®^^^*' <^ensely pubescent. Leaves distant ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, ob- 

 teneatli ^^°<=«"aceous, at first thinly silky above, densely silky, and the reins raised 

 2-4in 1 ^^^'^^^ l-^in-; stipules subulate, persistent. Racemes distinctly peduncled, 

 ^ery aW^' '^^^^''^tely close, rarely congested, sessile {L. glomerata, Horo.) ; pedicels 

 tube r 71 ^^ H in- densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, 3-4 times the 

 ^ioffs anTt Z'^^'^'^'^- '^'^^^ 'IS long again as the calyx ; standard not longer than the 

 EUiBtt of N 1 ^'^ shorter than the calyx, oblong, pubescent— Very near L. htrta, 

 . I -Worth America. 



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{Campy lotropis ^ Bunge.) 



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