tfraria.] LEGUMINOSAE. 335 



Prostrate and trailing ; leaflets snborbicular, emarginate, end one 

 rather broader than long, '25 to "75 in. long 2. obcordata. 



1. LOUREA VESPERTILIONIS, Desv. ; F. B. I. ii. 154; W. & A. 

 221 ; Wt. Ic. t. 285. 



An introduced species, occasional as a weed in waste places., 

 sometimes in gardens. 



A curiously leaved plant, the leaves often clouded with 

 white ; flowers white. 



2. LOUREA OBCORDATA, Desv. ; F. B. I. ii. 154. 



Coimbatore District, at Sengadi, 2,600 ft. (Fischer). 



27. Uraria, Desv. 



Perennial herbs or imdershrubs. Leaves imparipinnate or 3- 

 foliolate, often 1-foliolate, with subulate stipels ; stipules lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, scarious, striate. Flowers in terminal racemes or 

 panicles of racemes, usually purple or yellow, the racemes often 

 elongate ; bracts stipular, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, striate, 

 conspicuous, persistent or deciduous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube 

 short, 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-partite, the lower 3-partite, often 

 elongate. Corolla small ; standard orbicular or obovate, clawed ; 

 wings oblong-falcate, adherent to the obtuse keel. Stamens 

 diadelphous, 9 and 1 ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly 

 stalked, 2-many-ovuled ; style inflexed, filiform ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod a lomentum of 2-6 small, turgid, 1-seeded, indehiscent joints 

 folded within the calyx, occasionally continuous. Seeds orbicular 

 or subglobose, strophiole 0. 



Upper leaves 5-9-foliolate, the leaflets linear-oblong, clouded ; 

 racemes long, cylindrical ; calyx-teeth subulate-lanceolate, the lower 

 twice the length of the upper, plumose ; lomentum joints 3-6, usually 



white and polished 1. picfa 



Leaves 3- and 1-foliolate intermixed : 



Racemes dense, very hairy ; lower teeth of calyx very long, the 

 upper very small ; lomentum joints usually 2, smooth and faintly 

 reticulate : 



Trailing undershrub with racemes usually under 1*5 in. long ; 

 leaflets 1 or 3, small, ovate, obtuse at apex, mucronate 



2. lagopodioides. 



Erect undershrub with racemes 2-4 in. long; leaflets 1 or 3, large,, 

 usually cordate at base, subacute at apex, mucronate 



3. alopecuroides- 



