Uraria.'] L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 157 



base, 3-5 in, by 2-3 in. Racemes much laxer than in the other species, resembling 

 those of a Desmodium, copiously panicled, reaching ^-1 ft. long ; bracts ovate, cuspi- 

 date, pubescent, deciduous ; pedicels | in'., often fascicled. Calyx in., all the 

 teeth deltoid-cuspidate. Corolla 2-3 times the calyx. Joints 4-6, opaque, drab or 

 brown. 



*** Leaves usually all \-foliolate. 



7. U. prunellcefolia, Grah. in Watt. Cat. 5686 ; stems erect, leaflets ob- 

 long-lanceolate, racemes short close oblong. Hedysarum hamatum, Heyne 



MSS. 



KTJMAON, alt. 3000 ft., Thomson. EAST HIMALAYAS, Griffith. 



Branches slender, shortly pubescent. Leaflet oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 

 rounded at the base, 3-4 in. by 1-1 in. ; petiole ^-\ in. Racemes terminal, simple, 

 1-2 in. by J f in ; bracts small, lanceolate, deciduous ; pedicels 2-3 times the calyx, 

 shortly bristly. Calyx | iu., lower teeth twice as long as the upper. Corolla 

 under twice the calyx. Joints 3-4, placed end to end, opaque or polished. 



8. IT. cordifolia, Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 33, t. 37 ; stems erect, leaflet cor- 

 date-ovate, racemes elongated lax cylindrical. U. cordata, Wall. Cat. 5679. 



PROME and banks of the Irrawaddi, Wallich. 



Branches stout, woody, densely clothed with short spreading hairs. Leaves casu- 

 ally trifoliolate, reaching 6-9 in. long, nearly as broad, acute, conspicuously hairy on 

 the raised veins below ; petiole | 2 in. Racemes lateral and terminal, 1ft. long, 

 resembling those of U. hamosa ; bracts small, lanceolate, deciduous ; pedicels ^ | in., 

 densely crinite. Calyx - in. ; teeth setaceous, nearly equal. Corolla scarcely ex- 

 serted. Joints 2-3, opaque, pubescent; 



47. ALYSICARPUS, Neck. 



Diffuse annuals or biennials. Leaves simple, rarely 3-foliolate, stipellate, sub- 

 coriaceous. Flowers in copious, axillary racemes. Calyx glumaceous ; teeth 

 deep, often imbricated, the two Tapper often connate. Corolla not exserted ; 

 standard broad ; keel obtuse, adhering to the wings. Stamens diadelphous ; an- 

 thers uniform. Ovary nearly or quite sessile, many-ovuled ; style incurved, stigma 

 capitate. Pod terete or turgid, composed of several indehiscent 1-seeded joints. 

 DISTRIB. Species about 15; weeds' everywhere in the tropics of the old 

 world. 



* XKicrocalycinae. Calyx not longer than the first joint of the pod. 



1. A. monilifer, DC. Prodr. ii. 353 ; stems clothed with fine spreading 

 hairs, pod distinctly moniliform turgid veinlej*. Wall. Cat. 5769 ; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 232. Hedysarum moniliferum, Linn. ; 2&rw. FL Ind. t. 52, fig. 3 ; Roxb. 

 Sort. Seng. 56 ; Fl. Ind iii. 345. A. Eubibarna, Wall C4 5771, 'ex parte. 



Tropical zone ; HIMALAYAS through India proper. BIRMA and TENASSERIM, Wal- 

 lich. DISTRIB. Nubia, Abyssinia. 



Stems densely tufted, -1 ft. long. Leaves all simple, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 

 %~^ in. long, often cordate ; petiole ^-5- in. long, finely downy. Eacemes close, 4-8- 

 flowered ; pedicels very short. Calyx j~-^ in., obscurely hairy ; teeth linear, erecto- 

 patent. Pod ^ in. thick, 4-8-jointed, ^-|~in. long, densely clothed with minute-hooked 

 pubescence, not at all reticulato-venose. 



2. A. hamosus, Edgew. Cat. Banda. PL 47; stems densely clothed with 

 short spreading hairs, calyx much shorter than the first joint, pod compressed 

 reticulato-venose not moniliform. A. rotundifolius, Wight $1SS. 



