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Alhagi, ] 



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L. lEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 



145^ 



leaflets ovate-elliptic, J-1 In. long, chartaceous, dark green and glabrous above, glau- 

 cescent and pilose below. i?ace?;i€5 axillary, stiff, fiilvo-pubescent, twice as long as the 

 leaves ; bracts caducous ; pedicels very short. Calyx densely fulvo -pubescent, \ in, ; 

 teeth subulate. Corolla scarcely twice as long as the calj'x, probably blue. Immature . 

 fod oblique ovoid acuminate, silky. Martabax, Eev. F. Mason, ex Kurz loc. cit. 



, I cannot separate from L, tomentosa by the description L, pineiorum, Kurz in^ 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 42, 2, 231, from Martaban. ■> 



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Low shrub. Leaves simple. Floioers axillary. Calyx campaniilate ; teeth 5, 

 distinct, minute. . Corolla exserted ; standard broad ; keel obtuse. Stamens 



ous; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile, 6-8H3vulate; style fili- 

 form, incurved ; stigma minute, capitate. Pod linear, subcontinuous or mohi- 

 Hfonn; joints oblong, small, turgid, smooth.— Distrib. Species 1^ spread from 

 ' ^ongariato Greece and Nubia. ■ ;•' 



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1. A. maurorum, Besv.\ DC. Prodr. iii. 352; TFall Cat 5760; 

 F. <§- A. Prodr. 232 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 67 ; Boiss, FL Orient, ii. 558. 

 A. napaulensium, DC. loc. cit. A. mannifera, Desv. ; Jaub. ^ Spach. HI t. 401. 

 Hedysarum Alhagi, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 344. Manna hebraica and nepa- 

 lensis, Dm P^odr. 247. 



Plains of the North West Provinces, Upper Ganges and Coxcax, ascending to 

 3000 ft. on the Kishengunga. 



- A low shrub, armed with copious subpatcnt hard pungent spines ^1 in. long. 

 ^(^aves simple, drooping from the base of the spines or branches, oblong, obtuse, 

 -^ rigidly coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers 1-6 from a spine, on short pedicels. Calyx 



glabrous, i-^ m. 

 or straight. 



Corolla reddish, 3 times the calyx. Pod 1 in. long or less, falcate 





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Linn. 



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-Herbs. Leaves numerous, odd-piunate, exstipellate. Flowers usually 

 ^^ copious long-peduncled axillary racemes. 



ampanuiate or 



tals 



Stamens 



jjdehiscent joints, in our species"'n'ot muricated, but reticulately veined on the 

 ^ces, the sutures usually furnished -w^th acute entire or toothed borders. 



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lecies about 50, spread through the North Temperate zone. 



io , ^^'(y^^'"^ee^/i equalling or exceeding the tube. 



^^^.^^ — kumaonense, Benfh.MSS.: stemless, leaflets small subcoriaceous 

 ol)ovate-oblon; ^ " .... 



Ktjma 



ig,l)racts lanceolate, joints small firm turgid, sutiu-es not bordered. 



3 in.. 

 Joints of 



teeth "f ^^-^^^^^^"^^fi seen only in a late stage ; pedicels very short. Calyx \ 

 po3 Jf^^^?3, from a lanceolate l)ase, exceeding tube. Corolla ^^-^ m. 

 uutary in the specimens seen, rather downy, oblong, under \ in. long. 



oWT^rr^V^^'^'^^^^^se, Bmth. MSS.', stem dwarf, leaflets smaU linear- 

 GK^mi? ^^"^^^aceous, standard and wings shorter than the keel; joints large 

 ^embmnoua with toothed boM^^^ " ' ^ 



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