Thermopsis.~\ L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 63 



2. T. inflata, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. Sot. iv. 34, t. 39 ; finely downy, 

 leaflets obovate-cuneate, corolla yellow, pod broad-oblong. Benth. in Hook. 

 Land. Journ, ii. 431. 



HIMALAYAS of TIBET and KUNAWAR, alpine region, alt. 15-17,000 ft. 



General habit of the last, but not more than half a foot high. Bootstock -woody, 

 widely creeping. Leaves sessile ; leaflets fleshy, glaucous, | 2 in. Stipules like the 

 leaflets in shape and texture. Racemes close, 6-10-flowered. Flowers short-stalked, 

 in twos or threes. Calyx finely silky, the three lower teeth as long as the tube. 

 Pod short-stalked, 6-10-seeded, oblong, an inch or more thick, more membranous and 

 flexible than in T. barbata, and dehiscing less readily. 



3. ROTHIA, Pers. 



Diffuse annuals. Leave* petioled, digitately 3-foliolate. Flowers copious, 

 minute, in the axils of the leaves. Calyx-tube turbinate, the teeth as long as 

 the tube, the two upper broader and arched. Corolla scarcely exserted, all the 

 petals narrow, nearly straight, distinctly iinguiculate, those of the keel scarcely 

 cohering. Filaments united in a tube which is slit along the top ; anthers 

 uniform, minute. Ovary sessile, linear, oc-ovulate ; style short, straight, fili- 

 form, stigma capitate minute. Pod linear, slender, nearly straight, compressed, 

 continuous within. DISTEIB. Two species, the other Trop. African. 



1. XI. trifoliata, Pers ; DC. Prodr. ii. 382 ; Wall. Cat. 5821 ; Wt. 8> 

 Am. Prodr. 195 ; Wight Ic. t. 199. Lotus indicus, Desr. in Lam. Enc. iii. 

 606. Trigonella indica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 389. Dillwynia trifoliata, 

 Roth Cat. iii. 71. Glycine leptocarpa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5515. Hosackia 

 iudica, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5940. 



TROPICAL PLAINS from BTJNDELKTJND to CEYLON. DISTRIB. Australia. 



A copiously-branched diffuse annual with slender stems a foot or more long. 1 

 Stipules free, minute, ^-lunate, persistent ; petioles shorter than the leaflets ; leaflets 

 oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, minutely mucronate, rather fleshy, silky, ^-1 in. long. 

 Flowers 1-4, on short pedicels in the axils of most of the leaves. Calyx silky, 

 |-| in. Corolla inconspicuous, fugacious. Pod 1^-2 in., silky. Seeds 20 or more. 



4. AROYROLOBIUBX, Eckl. # Zeyh. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules free. Flowers 

 yellow, in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes or umbels. Calyx 2-lipped, slit 

 nearly to the base, with (in Indian species) 5 distinct teeth, 2 to the upper, 

 3 to the lower lip. Corolla scarcely if at all exserted ; standard roundish ; 

 wings oblong ; keel-petals broad, joined down the back to the obtuse incurved 

 tip. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers dimorphous. Ovary linear, sessile, 

 OD-ovuled ; style elongate, filiform, curved gradually upwards inside the keel, 

 stigma minute oblique. Pod linear, straight, continuous within, compressed, 

 subtorulose. DISTRIB. Species 40-50, mostly South African. 



1. A. flaccidum, Jaub. 8f Spach in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. xix. 48; 

 terminal leaflet lanceolate acute, upper lip of 'calyx as long as lower, 4 upper 

 teeth deltoid, lowest subulate. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 350. Oytisus 

 flaccidus, Royle III. 197. Glycine ? flaccida, Wall. Cat. 5517. A. divaricatum, 

 Jaub. $ Spach. loc. cit. ; III. PL Orient, i. 116. 



