LEGUMINOS^. 493 



Snb-tiibc SOPUORIEiE. 

 Leaves pinnatehj \-manij-foUolate. Puds indehiscent or dehiscent. 



* Leaves pinnate. Bracts and Iractlets small, deciduous. 



Sni'iroiu, Linnaus. 



Pods monilifoi'm, teroto or wiugcd, usually iudeliiscent. Arilhts none. Leaves 

 without stipulets. 



S. TOMExros.v, L. I'tgu ami tliu Audamaus. 



S. occidentalis, L. 



Theu-bo-ma-ji (Kurz). 



Aeillaria, Kurz. 



Pods flesliy-coriacoous, short, dehiscent. AriUas crimson, enveloping the whole 

 seeds. Leaves with stipulets. 



A. EOBUSTA, Roxb. Lower Pegu and llartaban. 



Kway-tanyin or Thyt-wa-gyi (?). 



** Stamens variously united into a tuhe, or info a slit sheath or into two separate 

 sheaths with the rexillar stamen, free or ad nut e. 



+ Pods jointed, dehiscent or not, very rarely ohsoletely or nut jointed, in which case 

 the valves are usually marked with transverse veins or lines. In a few genera the 2}ods 

 consist of a single joint. 



Sub-tribe HEDYSARIE.E. 

 Leaves often pinnately 3—1-foliolaie, rarely pinnate. 



* Stamens united into a single slit sheath, the vexillary \Olh one free. 

 + Ovules solitary. Pods \-jointed. 

 Lespkdeza, Miehaux. 

 Pods indehiscent. Flowers clustered or in I'acemes, usually axillary. 

 * Flowers in axillary almost sessile clusters. 



L. .sERicKA, Mic[. Khakyen Ilills. 



Jledysarum junceum, lloxb. 



Appressed silvery silk-hairy. Leaflets linear-cuneate. 



** Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes often collected info terminal panicles. 



X All parts densely and softly pubescent. Bracts deciduous. 

 L. pi.NETOKUM, Kz. Martaban, 4000 to 6000 feet. 



iSoftly tomentose. Racemes sessile. Calyx-teeth almost filiform and flexuose. 



X X Branchlets and under side of leaves appressedly greyish puberulous. 



L. DECouA, Kz. Martaban, 4000 to 6000 feet. 



Racemes glandular-pubescent. Bracts persistent. 



L. I'AEViFLOEA, Kz. ^s'at-touiig East of Toung-ngoo {fde Mason). 



Racemes tawny pubescent, not glandular. Bracts deciduous. 



Allied to L. elliptica, Btb., from which it differs by its much smaller flowers, 

 its subulate calyx-teeth, the diU'ercnt vestiturc of its inflorescence, and its deciduous 

 bracts (Kurz). 



-\ — \- Ovules 2 or more. Puds 2- or more-, rarely (by abortion) l jointed. 



° Pods not jointed, compressed or inflated. 



f Pud inflated like that rf Crotalaria. 



Picxosi'OKA, R. Browne. 



Herbs witli pinnately 3-foliolate leaves. Flowers in racemes. 



