Smitliia.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G-. Baker.) 151 



11. S. grandis, JBenth. MSS.; stems robust not "bristly, leaflets 20-24, 

 racemes forming a lax corymbose panicle, bracteoles calyx, joints 2Q-25 



Base of the Himalayas in SIICKIM, Herb. Griffith, Hook. fil.. 



Stems stout, erect, 3-4 ft. high. Leaf-Tachis 2^-3 in. long ; leaflets linear, obtuse, 

 without bristles, ^ | in. long; lower stipules 1 in. long. Racemes subsecund, 6-12- 

 flowered, forming~a corymbose panicle ft. broad ; pedicels erect, %^ in. long, with a 

 few deciduous bristles ; bracteoles^ in., obtuse. Calyx f in. long; lips equal, trun- 

 cate, obtuse, with only a few small bristles at first. Joints largest of all, in. 

 broad. 



12. S. blanda, Watt. Cat. 5669 ; stems densely bristly, leaflets 6-10, 

 racemes copiously panicled, bracteoles half as long as the calyx, joints 5-6 reti- 

 culated. W. $ A. Prodr 221 ; Wight. Ic. t. 986 ; Dab. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 64. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, tropical zone up to 4000 feet, EAST BENGAL, NELGHIRIS. 



Perennial, suffruticose. Stems 1^-2 ft. high, the bristles Tory dense, spreading, 

 fine, fragile. Leaf-r&chis under 1 in. long ; leaflets firm, obtuse, bristle-tipped. i-| in. 

 long, with copious fine deciduous bristles on the rachis, edge and midrib. Racemes 

 forming a dense terminal panicle, with corymbose branches ; pedicels -^ in., densely 

 bristly. Calyx ^-\ in., densely clothed with fine bristles on back and edge ; lips 

 equal ; upper broad, truncate. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Joints ^ in. 

 broad. 



VAE. 1. paniculata ; stems more slender, flowers fewer smaller crowded at the 

 end of the peduncles. S. paniculata, Am. Pug. 12. Hilly tracts of Ceylon, alt. 

 2-7000 ft. 



VAK. 2. racemosa ; annual, more slender and fugacious, leaflets more membran- 

 ous, calyx g ^ in. long, corymbs formed of a few close subsecund racemes 11^- in. 

 long. S. racemosa, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 5670 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 221 ; Dais. $ Cribs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 63. S. hirsuta, Dale, in Kew Journ. iii. 135 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 63. 

 Plains of Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



30. JSSSCKYNOBKISBa'ZS, Linn. 



Erect herbs or undershrubs. Leaces with very numerous close sensitive odd- 

 pinnate small linear leaflets. Flowers in sparse racemes. Calyx deeply 2-lipped, 

 the lips faintly toothed. Corolla fugacious ; standard orbicular ; keel not beaked. 

 Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, linear, 

 rnany-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, stigma terminal. Pod linear, with a stalk 

 longer than the calyx and 4-8 flattened 1-seeded separating joints. DISTKIB. 

 Species about 30, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



1. 3E. indica, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. ii. 320; stems slender much branched, 

 peduncles viscid, calyx and small corolla glabrous. W. fy A. Prodr. 219 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 405 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 62. yE. aspera, Wall. Cat. 5666, non Linn. 

 yE. kashmiriana, Camb. in Jacquem. Toy. JBot. 40, t. 48. Hedysarum Neli-Tali, 

 Ito.vb. If art Bcng. 57 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 365. ^E. pumila, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 321. 

 M. diflusa, 7F//W. ; DC. Prodr. loc. tit. ; Wall. Cat. 5665. M. viscidula, Willd. 

 JEnum. 776. yE. Roxburghii, Spreng. Syst. iii. 322. Smithia aspera, Roxb., 

 Hort. Beny. 56 j Fl. Ind. iii. 313Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 18. 



HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and SIAM, ascending to 5000 ft. in KASHMIR and 4000 ft, in 

 KUMAOX. DISTBIB. Japan and everywhere in tropics of old world. 



A suffruticose annual, 1-3 ft. high, glabrous, pale green, with slender terete 

 branches. Leaf-rachis 2-3 in. long; leaflets close, 41-61, linear, obtuse, 1-nerved; 

 stipules lanceolate, membranous, deciduous, with a large auricle. Flowers 1-4, in co- 

 pious axillary racemes ; peduncle and pedicels usually viscid ; bracts small, lanceolate, 



