2. Fieminoia.] 43. PAPILIONACEJE. 



acuminate leaves 2-6" by £-3" with rounded base and 

 numerous axillary and terminal racemes 2-3-£'' long of small 

 white flowers T V long in short few- flowered cymes in the 

 axils of folded membranous cordate bracts. 



Beds of ravines in the Porahat forests. Shady forests, Saranda. 

 Eanchi, 1,500-2,000 ft., Wood. Parasnath. Santhal Parganahs near 

 streams (Banjhi, etc.) Fls. Jany. -April. 



L. densely covered with small red glands beneath, and fnlvous hairy 

 on the nerves. Sec. n. 10-13 prs. strong straight. Petiole slender £-f. 

 Stipules linear £-f as long as the petiole. Bracts (unfolded) ovate-cordate 

 acuminate or apiculate puberulous, \-lk'', usually about If'' broad by f" 

 long, puberulous. Calyx hairy and glandular, lower tooth linear nearly 

 as long as flower. 



2. P. bracteata, Wight. Syn. F. strobilifera, Var. brac- 

 teata of F.B.I. Sim-busac' S. 



A shrub 1-3 ft. high with shaggily pubescent angled 

 branches, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves 

 3-7" by 1-2 1" with sub-cordate base and mostly terminal 

 panicled racemes 2-5" long of large folded deeply cordate 

 bracts broader than long. 



Singbhum, in forests and usually in drier places than the last ; 

 Manbhum. 



Fls. Jany. -April, 



L. with very few or no glands beneath. Petiole densely pubescent J* 

 only. Stipules linear setaceous with a filiform tip £-1* much longer than 

 the petiole. Bracts (unfolded) very broadly orbicular and deeply cordate 

 pubescent, J 7 by If. Racemes usually with a zig-zag rachis. Fls. {" 

 pinkish. 



The above two species were united in the F.B.I. They were again 

 neparated by Col. Prain in * Bengal Plants." _ The two Chota Nagpur forma 

 appear to differ even more than is indicated in that work which states for 

 both : " Axis of racemes zig-zag, bracts hardly broader than long " and 

 proceeds to discriminate them by the number of sec. nerves (which I 

 do not find holds good in my specimen) and as follows : " strobilifera : — 

 bracts 1", finely puberulous, usually all obscurely cuspidate, sometimes 

 the highest slightly emarginate ; bracteata : — bracts §*, softly hirsute 

 with long hairs, usually all Blightly emarginate, sometimes the lowest, 

 obscurely cuspidate." 



Roots sometimes given for epilepsy, Camp. 



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