purea, figured in this work at t. 3065, differs most markedly 
from J. hebepetala in the darker colour of its flowers, in the 
narrower and smaller bracts, and in the number of its leaflets, 
never fewer than 11, usually 13-17; in J. hebepetala the 
maximum number, very rarely met with, is 11, the usual 
number being 5-7, though leaves with 9 leaflets are not 
uncommon. Though long ago segregated by Mr. Bentham, 
no description of this species was published till the Indian 
Leguminosae were taken up in the second volume of the 
Flora of British India. Owing to the inclusion in the 
species of what was then taken for a sub-alpine form with 
smaller leaflets, but is now known to belong to another 
species, the number of leaflets in the original description is 
given as 13-17, and the range of elevation is stated to be 
from 6,000 to 15,000 ft. The actual number of leaflets is, 
however, as stated above, 5-11, and the known range of 
elevation of the species is from 6,000-8,000 ft. 
Description.—Shrub, of considerable size. Branchlets at 
first sparingly beset with adpressed hairs, soon glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, 1}-2 in. apart, including the 14 in. long 
petiole 7-8 in. in length; leaflets 5-9, very occasionally 11, 
opposite except the distal leaflet, the pairs 1-1} in. apart, 
wide cuneate or rounded, obtuse or subretuse, mucronulate, 
nerves 8-10-paired, dark green at length glabrous above, 
paler more persistently adpressed pilose beneath, 14-23 in. 
long, 1-14 in. wide, the petiolules } in. long; petiole and 
rachis soon glabrous; stipules lanceolate or subulate, 4 in. 
long, caducous; stipels 7! in. long, subulate. Flowers in 
axillary 20-40-flowered racemes 3-8 in. long ; peduncles 
~2 in. long; pedicels +, in. long; bracts deciduous, 
crimson, sparingly hairy, boat-shaped and enclosing the 
buds, } in, long, 4 in. across, ending in a recurved cuspidate 
tip. Calye sparingly pilose, obliquely campanulate, } in. 
long, the lobes Red half as long as tube. Corolla 
in, long, with dark crimson standard s aringly silky out- 
side, rose-coloured wing-petals and kee -petals with dark 
crimson sparingly silky tips. Pod cylindric, straight, 
glabrous, with a sharp slightly recurved tip, 13-2 in. long, 
$ in. thick, 8-10-seeded.—D, Pratn. 
Wa . . . . . 
CULTIVATION.—So far as Kew is concerned this species 18 
