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MSS. : stems robust not "bristlv. leaflets 20-24 



racemes lormin, 

 venose. 



.„■ Base of the Himalayas in Sikkevt, Herb, Griffith, HooJcfil. 



-^: St€7ns stout, erect,_3-4 ft. high. iea/-rachis 2^3 in. long; leaflets linear, oUuse, 

 without hristles, |~f in. long; lower stipules 1 in. long. Racemes subsecund, 6-12- 

 flowered, forming a corymbose panicle ^ ft. broad; pedicels erect, |-^ in. long, -with a 

 fewdeciduous bristles ; bracteoles | in., obtuse. Calyx f in. long; lips equal, trun- 

 cate, obtuse, with only a few small bristles at first. Joints largest of all, i in, 

 broad. 



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culated 



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W. ^- A. Pt-odr. 221 J Wight. Ic. t. Q8Q ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 64. 



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;■ East Himalayas, tropical zone up to 4000 feet. East Bengal, Nilghiris. 

 '." "^SQ^ial, suflfhiticose. Stems 1^-2 ft. high, the bristles very dense, spreading, 

 one, fragile. iea/-rachis under 1 in, long; leaflets firm, obtuse, bristle -tipped, ^-|in. 

 long, -with copious fine deciduous bristles on the rachis, edge and midrib. Eacemes 

 forming a dense terminal panicle, with coTjmhosQ branches; pedicels ^-J in., densely 

 Dnstly. Calyx ^~\ in., densely clothed with fine bristles on back and edge ; lips 

 equal ; upper broad, truncate. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Joints -^ in. 



broad. 



V^. 1. paniculata ; stems more slender, flowers fewer smaller crowded at the 

 2-7000 f^^ P^^^^^les. S. paniculata, Am, Puff, 12.— Hilly tracts of Ceylon, alt. 



^ ^^' ^* ^^cemosa; annual, more slender and fugacious, leaflets more membran- 

 ?ft^' /^ 8-6" in- lon^, corymbs formed of a few close subsocund racemes 1-1| in. 

 P \ ^; ^^^^^osa, Heyne iw Wall. Cat. 5670 ; W, 4^ A. Frodr. 221 ; Dale, 4' Gibs, 

 ^omb. Ft 63. S. hirsuta, Dalz. in Ketv Joxmu iii. 135 ; Dalz. ^' Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 63. 

 i lains of Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



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pin^f'^^ ^^^- ^^ underslirubs. Leaves with 



P mate smaU Unear leaflets. Flowers iu sparse racemes. Cahjx deeply 2-lipped, 

 Stam . °*'y toothed. Corolla fugacious ; standard orbicular ; keel not beaked. 



Stamens 



many-ovuled 



uniform. Ovari/ stalked, linear, 



with a stallv 



1. — DiSTKIB. 



Ee^^Y the calyx and 4-8 flattened . . ,- . .- 



about 30, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



T)«1,!^ ^' *^dica, Linn.: DC. Proch: ii. 320: stems slender much branched, 

 Jbl in ' "1"*^' ^^b'x and smaU corolla glabrous. TF. ^- A. Prodr. 219 ; Wt. 

 Ji i-pti " '• ^"^~- ^' (^ibs. Bomb. Fl. m. M. aspera, Wall. Cat. 5G06, nonLinn^ 



Hort-n ' .^- RoxT^urghii, Spreiw. Syst. iii. 322. Smithi 

 ^^■■Benc,. 56; Fl. Ind. iii. hd-Bheede Jlort. Mai. ix. t. 18. 



Kashmir 



A snV }F^^^^* Japan and everywhere in tropics of old world. 



branches ^'^^^® annual, 1-3 ft. high, glabrous, pale green, wi 



''^^P^les Ian 1 "^^'^ ^"^ ^°' ^^°S' leaflets close, 41-61, linear, 



pious ailK^^^^'*^' niembranous, deciduous, with a large auricle, i 



with slender terete 



obtuse, 1 -nerved; 



Flowers 1-4, in co- 





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