64 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Argyrolobium. 



TROPICAL and TEMPERATE tracts of north-west India, ascending from the plains to 

 9000 ft. 



A shrub with very slender diffuse branches reaching 12-18 in. high. Stipules 

 minute, linear, persistent ; petioles much shorter than the leaves ; leaflets pale, silky, 

 subequal, lanceolate, acute, i-| in. long. Flowers 1-6 in leaf-opposed racemes on 

 peduncles that exceed the leaves. Calyx |-| in. ; teeth shorter than the limb. Pod 

 densely silky, 6 8-seeded, i in. broad. Cytisus languitwsus, Royle MSS., is a form 

 with more densely silky vestiture. 



2. A. roseum, Jaub. fy Spach. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. ii. xix. 51 ; end leaflet 

 obovate-cuneate very obtuse, upper lip of calyx shorter than lower, teeth all 

 lanceolate. Cytisus roseus, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. JBot. iv. 35, t. 40. A. ornithopo- 

 dioides, Jaub. fy Spach, loo. cit. ; III PL Orient, i. 116. A. Kotschyi, Bow. 

 Diagn. vi. 32. 



TROPICAL and SUBTEMPERATE tracts of the north-west, ascending from the plains 

 to 7000 ft. in KUMAON. DISTRIB. Persia. 



General habit of A. flaccidum, but nearly or quite glabrous. Stipules the same : 

 petioles as long as or shorter than the leaves ; leaflets |-| in. long, often nearly as 

 broad, point truncate or emarginate. Peduncles 1-4-flowered, exceeding the leaves. 

 Calyx | in., glabrous ; teeth of upper lip exceeding limb. Corolla yellow tinged with 

 red; standard longer than upper lip of calyx. Pod glabrous, 10-15-seeded, ^ in. 

 broad. A. trigonelloides, J. $ S., with a similar habit, but a shorter flatter pod with 

 much fewer seeds, will probably be found in Scinde. 



5. LGTONCNIS, DC. 



Herbs or shrubs with digitately trifoliolate leaves, stipules connate or free, 

 flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes or umbels. Calyx-tube narrow- 

 turbinate ; lowest tooth deeper than the other 4. Corolla little exserted ; 

 standard very narrow ; wings shorter and still narrower ; keel longer, suddenly 

 incurved at the tip, its petals firmly joined along the back. Stamens united in 

 a tube slit along the top ; anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile, linear, oc-ovulate ; 

 style abruptly incurved at the base, stigma minute oblique. Pod linear, 

 usually compressed, but in our species turgid. DISTRIB. Species 60, nearly all 

 restricted to South Africa. 



1. Xi. Xieobordea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 607. Leobordea 



lotoides, Delile Fragm. PI. Arab. 23, tab. 1. 



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SCINDE ; between the plains and Rohill pass, Stocks. PUNJAB ; Peshawur, Stewart. 

 DISTRIB. Through the desert region to Algeria, Abyssinia and the Cape. 



A much -branched finely silky diffuse annual, | ft. or less high. Stipules minute 

 lanceolate, deciduous ; petiole as long as leaf; leaflets oblanceolate, rather fleshy, obtuse, 

 minutely mucronate, ~~ in. Flowers 1-5, subsessile in axils of most of the leaves. 

 Calyx silky, \~ in. Corolla pale yellow or red, scarcely exserted. Pod linear-oblong, 

 turgid, 4-8 -seeded, scarcely exserted. 



6. HEYXiANDIA, DC. 



Calyx-tube turbinate ; teeth lanceolate, three lowest deepest. Corolla much 

 exserted ; standard large, round ; wings much smaller, obovate ; keel-petals 

 narrow, joined along 1 the back, narrowed into an incurved beak. Stamens 

 united in a tube slit above ; anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile, 2-ovulate ; style 



