AlliagiJ] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 145 



leaflets ovate-elliptic, 5 1 in. long, chartaceous, dark green and glabrous above, glau- 

 cescent and pilose below. Racemes axillary, stiff, fulvo-pubescent, twice as long as the 

 leaves ; bracts caducous ; pedicels very short. Calyx densely fulvo-pubescent, in. ; 

 teeth subulate. Corolla scarcely twice as long as the calyx, probably blue. Immature 

 pod oblique ovoid acuminate, silky. MABTABAN, Kev. F. Mason, ex Kurz loc. cit. 



I cannot separate from L. tomentosa by the description L. pinetorum, Kurz in 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 42, 2, 231, from Martaban. 



33. AXiHAGX, Desv. 



Low shrub. Leaves simple. Flowers axillary. Calyx campanulate ; teeth 5, 

 distinct, minute. Corolla exserted; standard broad; keel obtuse. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile, 6-8-ovtilate ; style fili- 

 form, incurved ; stigma minute, capitate. Pod linear, subcontinuous or moni- 

 liform ; joints oblong, small, turgid, smooth. DISTKIB. Species 1, spread from 

 Sctogaria to Greece and Nubia. 



1. A. maurorum, Desv. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 352; Wall Cat. 5760; 

 W. 8f A. Prodr. 232 ; Dalz. $ Gibs-. Bomb. Fl. 67 ; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 558. 

 A. napaulensium, DC. loc. cit. A. mannifera, Desv. ; Jaub. fy Spach. III. t. 401. 

 Hedysarimi Alhagi, Linn. ; Roxb. FL 2nd. iii. 344. Manna hebraica and nepa- 

 lensis, Don Prodr. 247. 



PLAINS of the NORTH WEST PROVINCES, UPPER GANGES and CONCAN, ascending to 

 3000 ft, on the Kishengunga. 



A low shrub, armed with copious subpatent hard pungent spines | 1 in. long. 

 Leaves simple, drooping from the base of the spines or branches, oblong, obtuse, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers 1-6 from a spine, on short pedicels. Calyx 

 glabrous, yg- in. Corolla reddish, 3 times the calyx. Pod 1 in. long or less, falcate 

 or straight. 



34. HEDYSAXIUIK, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves numerous, odd-pinnate, exstipellate. Flowers usually red, 

 in copious long-peduncled axillary racemes. Calyx-tube campanulate or 

 tubular; teeth 5, distinct, long or short. , Corolla much exserted; petals 

 unequal in relative proportion in the different species ; keel obtuse. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, stalked, few-ovuled ; style very 

 long, filiform, abruptly inflexed, stigma minute terminal. Pod of 1-3 flattened 

 indehiscent joints, in our species not rnuricated, but reticulately veined on the 

 faces, the sutures usually furnished with acute entire or toothed borders. 

 DISTRIB. Species about 50, spread through the North Temperate zone. 



* Calyx-teeth equalling or exceeding the tube. 



1. K. kumaonense, Benth.MSS.; stemless, leaflets small subcoriaceous 

 obovate-oblong, bracts lanceolate, joints small firm turgid, sutures not bordered. 



KUMAON, temperate region, alt. 9000 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom. 



Leaves and peduncles in a dense rosette from a thick woody rhizome. Leaf-xachises 

 4-6 in. long, including distinct petiole; leaflets 17-25, i-f in. long, obtuse, with a 

 mucro, dark green, glabrous above, pale grey with adpressed silky hairs below ; veins 

 distinct. Inflorescence seen only in a late stage ; pedicels very short. Calyx | ^ in. ; 

 teeth setaceous, from a lanceolate base, exceeding tube. Corolla |-f in. Joints of 

 pod solitary in the specimens seen, rather downy, oblong, under ^ in. long. 



2. IE. sikkimense, Benth. MSS. ; stem dwarf, leaflets small linear- 

 oblong subcoriaceous, standard and wings shorter than the keel, joints large 

 membranous with toothed borders. 



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