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L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker,) 



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■ Kashmir, temperate region, Falconer, 



Stems above a foot high, densely clothed with short adpressed whitish hairs. Leaf^ 



rachises 6-8 in. long; leaflets 19-2o, oblong-lanceohite, obtuse, 1-1 J in. long, flexible, 



dabrescent above, thinly white-silky beneath. Racemes dense, 2-3 in. long; the 



mi3s quite hidden by the imbricated scariose ciliated bracts ; pedicels very short. 



Calyx tubular, \~\ in. long ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate, not more than \-^ tube. Corolla 

 jellowish, under | in, long. Pod unknown. 



l^^ 8. K. xnicrocalyx, Bakery stems robust, leaflets large membranous, 

 "bracts linear minute, corolla several times calyx, keel exceeding standard, joints 

 large membranous entire, 



- West Himaiatas, temperate region; Gubwhal, Falconer; Kashmir, Lance; 

 Lahul, Jaeschke, 



Stem 1^2 ft. high, stout, sulcata, glabrous. . i^ff/-rachises 6-9 in. long; leaflets 

 11-13, distant, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 1-1^ in. long; both sides 

 green, glabrous. Flower-racemes 2-4 in. long, lax ; pedicels ^-^ in. long, grey- 

 ' pubescent. Calyx ^ in., campanulate, membranous, glabrous ; teeth minute, deltoid- 

 cuspidate. Corolla bright red, |-| in. Joints 2-3, obtong, ^-f in. long, thin, 

 glabrous, the sutures both distinctly margined. 



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-A *^fted low shrub. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers axillary. Calyx-titie 

 turbinate; teeth 5, lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla much exserted; 

 ^ndard broad ; keel as long as the other petals, iucmTed and obtuse at the tip. 

 «"«mews diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Omry linear, sessile, few-ovuled ; style 

 .?o? filiform, abruptly incurved, stigma minute capitate. Fod flat, not visibly 

 jomted, tuuricated along the edge and face and marked with conspicuous trans- 

 verse veins.— Distrib. A single endemic species. 



1- S. tibetica, JBenth. in Hooh. Keto Jmirn. v. 306 j Walp. Ann. iv. 545. 



alt 1^^'^'^^ Himalayas, alpine region, from Pangong eastward to East Ki^U 



\f'^A^^ ^^'' ^^^^^<>^h StracJiey ^ Winterbottom, #c. 



iatems densely tufted, from a slender woody rootstock, the leaves and peduncles 

 *. ^,^^ette at the surface. Leaves odd-pinnate; leaflets 11-15, oblong, obtuse, 

 iod ^^^' leaf-rachis 2-4 in. long, including a distinct petiole, articulated at the 

 fiilfe^^' ^?^^^^ ^"^^ shortly pedicellate, on very short peduncles ; bracts lanceolate, 

 ^y. Calyx 1 in., densely pubescent. Corolla ^| in., reddish, glabrous. Fod 



membranous, 1 in. long. 



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ODi>n °t" •' ^^^^^ ^^^n^ geminate coriaceous bracts and dotted leaflets in 1-2 

 conmf r^'^' -^'o'"«'s ii lax racemes. Cali/x minute; upper teeth sliort, 

 stanrl ^' t!^^^* shorter than the two middle ones. Corolla much exserted ; 

 Phous n^ ' ^^^ incurved, acute. 'Stmiims nionadelphous ; anthers dimor- 

 capu„: ^^"''y sessile, nianv-ovuled ; stvle tiliform, incurved, sti^aiia minute 



"'^ several small round flattened finely muricated 1-seeded inde- 



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fiedV- . *' *»P*»ylla, Pcrs. ■ MeniJi. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. 80, t. 21-2. 

 '^^^^ diphyllum, Linn. ■ T.o.vh. Fl. Ind. iii. 353. Z. angustifolia. Smith : 



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-6o/n6. Fl. G2. 



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/^.Oictyocarpa, DC. P;-o(7/-. u. 317. Z. gibbosa and grammea 

 Ltrnma. XV. 102.— i2/ieec?e Hort. Mai. ix. t. 82-3. 



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