62 L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Piptantlms. 



Stamens monadelplious. 

 Leaves bipinnate. 



Pod thin, ligulate, the sutures not thickened . . . 128. ALBIZZIA. 

 Pod large, turgid, oblong, indehiscent, the sutures not 



thickened 129. SERIANTHES. 



Pod rather falcate, the sutures much thickened . . 130. CALLIANDRA. 



Pod circinate 131. PITHECOLOBITJM. 



Leaves simply pinnate . . . . . .132. INGA. 



1. PXPTANTHUS, D. Don. 



A shrub. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. Flowers racemed, bracteate. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth equal, lanceolate. Corolla three times the calyx ; 

 petals all with long claws ; standard orbicular, erect, margins reflexed ; wings 

 obovate ; keel-petals obovate-oblong,' connate down the back, slightly incurved. 

 Stamens free ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, stalked, downy, 6-10-ovulate ; 

 style filiform, incurved; stigma minute terminal. Pod linear, flattened, con- 

 tinuous within. DISTRIB. A single endemic species. 



1. P. nepalensis, D. Don in Sweet, Brit. Flower Oard. t, 264; Brand. 

 For. Flor. 132. Therinopsis nepaulensis, DC. Prodr. ii. 99. T. laburnifolia, 

 Don Prodr. 239. Baptisia? nepalensis, Hook. Exot. Flor. t. 131. Anagyris 

 nepalensis, Grah, in Wall. Cat. 5340. A. indica, Lindl. in Trans. Sort. Soc. 

 vii. 245. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from SIMLA to BHOTAN, alt. 7-9000 ft. 



A shrub 6-10 feet high ; habit of the laburnum ; branches downy. Stipules small, 

 connate, amplexicaul ; petiole 1 in. or less ; leaflets glabrescent, lanceolate, 2-4 in., 

 narrowed to both ends. Flowers 12-20 in subdense racemes ; bracts large, de- 

 ciduous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx downy, deciduous from the base. Corolla yellow, above 

 1 in. long. Pod 2-5 in., 3-10-seeded. 



2. THERXKOPSXS, R. Br. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves stipulate, 3-foliolate ; bracts large, ( leafy, free. 

 Flowers showy, usually yellow, racemed. Calyx-tube turbinate ; teeth lanceo- 

 late ; two upper more or less connate. Petals all long-clawed ; standard orbicu- 

 lar, sides reflexed ; wings obovate ; keel-petals obovate-oblong, faintly joined 

 down the back. Stamens free ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile or 

 stalked, oc-ovulate ; style filiform, incurved ; stigma minute terminal. Pod 

 turgid, linear or oblong, straight or falcate, continuous within. DISTKIB. 

 Species 12, China, Japan, N. America. 



1. T. barbata, Royle HI. 196, t. 32, fig. 1; densely shaggy, leaflets 

 oblanceolate, corolla deep purple, pod linear-oblong. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4868. 

 Anagyris barbata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5341. 



TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, from KASHMIR and KTJNAWAR to SIKKIM, 

 ascending- to 11,000 ft. 



Eootstock woody. Stems 1 ft. or more, copiously branched dichotomously. Leaves 

 sessile, subglabrescent, often opposite ; stipules just like the leaflets in texture and 

 shape. Flowers 6-12, short-stalked, opposite or ternate. Calyx shaggy, like the 

 leaA-es, 3 lower teeth twice the tube. Corolla 1 in. long. Pod short-stalked, |-| in. 

 broad, 1-6-seeded. 



