LespedezaJ] L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 143 



lanceolate grey-silky below, umbels sessile or short-peduncled in the axils of 

 the leaves, corolla large, pod small sessile. 



Along the Himalayas, temperate region, alt. 5-1 0,000ft.; SIMLA and KUMAON 

 to SIKKIM. 



Stems 1-3 ft., densely pubescent. Leaves moderately close, ascending ; leaflets 

 } in. long, rigidly coriaceous, glabrescent on the upper side, densely grey-silky be- 

 low ; petioles |- in. Umbels 4-8-flowered, usually sessile ; bracteoles linear, half as 

 long as the calyx. Calyx ^ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, 2-3 tirhes 

 the tube. Corolla f -^ in. ; keel tipped with purple. Pod considerably shorter than the 

 calyx. 



4. Zi. eleg"ans, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. Sot. 43, t. 52 ; upper leaves 

 suppressed, petiole produced, leaflets oblong grey-silky beneath, umbels sessile, 

 pod small sessile. Maxim. Synop. Gen. Lesp. 40. 



KASHMIR, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. 

 Stems 2-3 ft., finely downy. Petiole -f in. ; leaflets -f in. long, obtuse, gla- 

 brescent above, densely grey-silky beneath. Flowers 6-8, in sessile umbels, rarely in 

 short racemes, reaching low down the branches and forming at the top a close leafless 

 panicle. Calyx ^-\ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, very long. Corolla 

 half as long again as the calyx. Pod g- in. long, oblong, downy. 



5. X.. elliptica, Benth. Cat. Griff. PL No. 1745 ; petiole produced, leaflets 

 large obovate-oblong thinly grey-canescent beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes 

 the upper panicled, pod stipitate exserted. Maxim. Synops. Gen. Lesp. 27. 



KHASIA, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., Griffith, Hook. fil. and Thomson. 



Stems woody, reaching several feet high, finely pubescent. Leaves not crowded ; 

 leaflets subcoriaceous, 1-1^ in. long, obtuse, green, glabrous above, grey, finely downy 

 below; petiole 1-1 1 in. Racemes many-flowered, close or lax, the peduncles some- 

 times as long as the leaves ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles linear, as long 

 as the tube. Calyx - i in., densely canescent ; teeth lanceolate, acute, twice as long 

 as the tube. Corolla deep red, twice as long as the calyx. Pod oblong, i in. long, 

 finely downy, distinctly stalked. Very near the common East Asian L. bicolor, Turcz. 

 Led. Fl. Ross. i. 715 (L. viatorum, Champion), from which it differs mainly by its long 

 acute calyx-teeth. 



6. Xi. tomentosa, Sieb. ; Maxim. Synops. 50 ; petiole short, leaflets large 

 obovate-oblong densely downy beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes, pod sessile 

 included. Hedysaruni tomentosum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 286. L. glomerata, Hornem. ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 350. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, temperate region, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth. : DISTRIB. 

 China, Japan, Korea. 



Stems 2-3 ft., erect, densely pubescent. Leaves distant ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, ob- 

 tuse, thick, subcoriaceous, at first thinly silky above, densely silky, and the veins raised 

 beneath ; petioles 1-^ in. ; stipules subulate, persistent. Racemes distinctly peduncled, 

 2-4 in. long, moderately close, rarely congested, sessile (L. glomerata, Horn.) ; pedicels 

 very short. Calyx ~ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, 3-4 times the 

 tube. Corolla whitish, half as long again as the calyx ; standard not longer than the 

 wings and keel. Pod shorter than the calyx, oblong, pubescent. Very near L. hirta, 

 Elliott, of North America. 



STJBGEN. Oxyramphis, Wall. Keel acute and much incurved, like that 

 of a Orotala'_."~. ( Campy lotropis, Bunge.) 



7. la. macrostyla, Baker ; petiole short, leaves small thinly clothed be- 



