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150 L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [SinWik. 



Lracteoles 



s back and edge. Flowers 4-6, in copious short-peduncled racemes ; bracteoles 

 , ^ the calyx. Ca!^x I in., turLinate, densely bristle-ciliated; lips equal, upper 



on the 

 linear 

 truncate. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. 



e] S. eracUiB, Benth.in irohen. PL Ind. Or. Exsic. No. 1182 ; stems 

 naked or minutely hristly, leaflets 4-G, flowers in short axillary racemes^ brac- 

 teoles minute, joints 6-8 reticulato-venose. Benth. PL Jwngh. 212. 



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NiLGHmis, Schmidt y Wight. . 



A diffuse, very slender, perennial, with the general habit and inflorescence of 

 *S. bigemim. Leaflets obovate -oblong, \-^ in., minutely bristly. Calyx \ in., densely 

 ciliated with minute bristles ; lips equal, narrower than in the last, the lower acute ; 

 bracteoles linear. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Joints distinctly veined, 

 not at all echinulate as in 8, bigemina. 



7. S. cfliata, Rmjh III. 201 t. 35, fig. 2 ; stems not hristly, leaflets 6-16, 



flowers in dense axillary racemes, bracteoles large, joints 6-8 ohsciirely papillose. 

 S. pumik, Royle MSS. ; W. c& A. B^odr. 220. 



SiMUi. and Kumaon to Khasia andSiKKiM, alt. 3-6000 ft. Parasnath in Bkhab. 



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Annual. Ste'}7is slender, ^2 ft. high. ica/-rachis ^-1 in. ; leaflets linear, ^-g id. 

 long, obtuse, distinctly bristly on the edge and midrib below. Flowers up to a dozen 

 in dense copious short-peduncled secund racemes ; bracteoles leafy, oblong, ciliatea, 

 nearly as long as calyx. Calyx ^ in., densely bristly-ciliated; upper lip truncate, 

 "finally | in. broad ; lower lanceolate. Corolla yellow, little exserted. 



a S. Gapltata, Bah. in Keio Joum. iii. 203 ; stems not "bristly, leaflets 

 20-30, flowei'S in globose terminal heads, bracteoles large, joints 6-6 sniootn. 

 Dalz. 4- Gibs. Bomb. Flora ^ 63, non Desv. ; Bedd. Ic. FLInd. Or. t, 244. ^ 



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AVestern Pexixsuxa. 



An annual, 1-2 ft. high, with firm shrubby terete branches. Leaf-TaQ^^^ 

 densely bristly, lJ-2 in. long; leaflets linear, |-| in. long, bristly on the back ana 

 edge. Flowers in a dense globose head 1 in. thick, at the end of each branch ; pedicel* 

 very short ; bracteoles oblong, membranous, bristle-tipped, nearly as long as the calyx* 

 Calyx i in. long; both lips broad, truncated, ciliated with long bristles. Corom 

 jjurplish, much exserted. Joints neither venose, nor papillose. 



9. S. pyczxantba, Benth. MSS.] stems minutely bristly, leaflets 6-^? 

 flowers in globose terminal heads, bracteoles minute, joints 5-6 venose. 



CoNCAX, Stocl:s. Law. 3 



An erect annual, ^2 ft. high, the stem clothed densely with small bristles dilatea 

 at the base. Leaves distinctly petioled; leaf-rachis }j in. or less long, densely bn^^tiyr 

 leaflets linear, -l-^ in. long, with a few minute yellow bristles in the back and cdg • 

 Heads 1 in, or more broad, formed of densely congested racemes; pedicels shorter tn 

 the calyx; bracteoles half the calyx, obtuse. Calyx ^ in., with copious sessile hlac 

 glands and small yellow bristles on back and edge ; lips equal, truncate. Core 

 yellow, half as long again as calyx. 



10. S. dichotoma, Dalzell MSS. ; stems not bristly, leaflets 4-6, racemg 

 forming a lax corymbose panicle, bracteoles minute, joints 10-12 papillose, 

 blanda, Ilohen. Plant. Ind. Or. Exsic. No. 146, nan WalL 



Western Penixsxjt^. ^ . 



Stems annual, very slender, little branched, 1-1^ ft. high. i<?rt/-rachis ^ in. or les 

 long; leaflets membranous, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, -^--i| in. long, not aristate, ho 

 sides without bristles. Lower racemes of the panicles 5-6-flowered, secund ; pedice 

 ascending, |-J in. ; bracteoles linear, ^~\ calyx. Calyx membranous, f in. ; Ij^^^^ 

 acute lip slightly longer than the broad truncate upper one. Corolla yellow, halt a 

 long again as the calyx. 



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