704 JOURNAL, BOMB A Y NA TUBAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



Shrubs with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves, 

 Pod Bearing Plants. 

 Petals Dissimilar, Upper one Largest. 



TTraria neglecta, 



(of Prairi). 

 Deguminos^. 

 F. B.I. ii. 156. 

 Himalaya, 1-3,000 ft. 

 (Duthie.) 



Ebenus stellata, 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 140. 

 Himalaya, 4-8,000 ft. 



Leaflets Three. 



medium size ; slender, velvety. Tvoody branclies ; 

 this plant is like Uraria iagojms in its flowering parts 

 but differs in its foliage, bracts and pods ; leaves of 

 one leaflet (simple) or three leaflets, stipules long 

 pointed from a broad base, hairy, leaflets, 3-5 ins. 

 long, ovate-oblong, net-veined, entire, blunt-pointed 

 or notched, rarely short-pointed, base rounded, 

 smooth above, velvety beneath, terminal leaflet 

 largest, stalked, lateral nearly sessile, flowers ^-^ in. 

 purple, many on long, hairy stalks, crowded in cylin- 

 drical terminal racemes, 3-6 in, long and about 1 in. 

 broad, bracts overlapping in bud, ovate with a hard 

 sharp point, hairy, soon falUng off, calyx } in., 

 hairy, teeths, feathered, lower long, stamens and style 

 like the last species ; pod smooth, otherwise like the 

 last species, 



small, covered with spreading erect thorns 1-| in., 

 long ; leaves odd pinnate, shorter than the spines, 

 leaflets 3, lanceolate, ^-^ in. long, margins even ; 

 flowers red, sessile in crowded heads on axillary stalks, 

 surrounded by lanceolate bracts, calyx ^ in. long 

 covered with long brown silky hairs, teeth bristle- 

 like, feathery, corolla much shorter than the calyx, 

 stamens 10, united except the upper one ; pod flat, 

 oblong, thin, enclosed in the calyx tube, seed one. 



Lespedeza serieea, 

 Lbguminos^. 

 F. B. I. ii. 142. 

 Himalay<», 2-8,000 tt. 

 Simla CCollett). 

 Hazara, Kashmir. 



small, branches long tough slender, velvety ; leaves 

 directed, obliquely upwards, nearly sessile, crowded, 

 overlapping, leaflets 3, tip notched, ^-h in. long, 

 wedge-shaped, usually smooth above, white silky be- 

 neath ; flowers | in. long, white or yellow tinged with 

 purple in clusters of two to four in the leaf axils all 

 down the branch, stalks short, bracteoles linear, minute^ 

 calyx xi-^ in- with short white hairs, teeth awl-like, 

 very long, corolla ; in., stamens 10, all united, but the 

 upper one ; pod ^ in., thinly silky, hardly longer than 

 the calyx, one-seeded. 



