376 BENGAL PLANTS. [Flen 
connate in a very short tube; teeth 5, qlee: subequal or the — 
af est ane Petals slightly or hardly exserted, subequal in 
obovate or Schiele 2- eacae at base; wings — 
chiguay om or spec adnate Pg straight or incurved 
obtuse or acute keel. Stamens 10, the vexillary filament free, 
the rest connate; anthers reid ae subsessile, short, 
2-ovuled; style Siiform or slightly thickened upwards, beardless; 
stigma terminal, capitate. Fruit a small oblong pane usually 
2-seeded pod, continuous within. Seeds rather thick, not strophio- 
late ; small, 
Bracts i persistent :— 
Leaves simple; flowers in small cymes, each hidden by @ broadly 
cordate folded membranous bract ; ost in copious panicles in the 
axils of leaves and at the ends of ie 
Axis of racemes zigzag; bracts hardly roads’ than long 
Erect shrubs, 5-10 fee eae leaves Berrie or ovate- ‘snoetal, 
rounded at the mai bracts -75-1 in. long :— a 
Lateral nerves all subequal eo airs; bracts 1 in., for 
puberulous, a all obscurely cuspidate, sometimes 1° — 
— Slightly emarginate ..........cccsssesesneeeeenes 12g 
teral nerves 4-6 pairs, the basal pair longer, stronger “— 
more oblique than the rest; bracts ‘75 in., softly hirsute sk : 
long hairs, usually all slightly emarginate, amaiiail the . 
obscurely cupidate : 
Low shrubs, 1-3 feet high; leaves lanceolate vrith “cuneate wale 
bracts 4 i in. eo softly pubescent with long spreading white | ond oo 
seereeesere 
acteatd. — 
cordate ; bracts at: sndinginate, firm, much br oader than long 
Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; flowers in dense globose ape a 
by a ring of lanceolate ac dminate scarious bracts .....+-++++ 
Bracts small, caducous :— Teal 
Leaves simple, thin ; flowers in lax panicles single or wae = a 
yrsoid ‘ak ends of branches .......csssecceseenrertt en” panic : 
i. otra 3- Sree 
copious axillary and oe lax panicles; 
oblanceolate oblong, obtuse, deeply plicate ......---s+-sste1t"" 
Flowers in dense subspicate axillary racemes ; leaflets acute -— 307) 
*Erect woody shrubs with distinct aboveground stems: in 
tBracts rigidly scarious ; leaflets long-acuminate :—[P- 7/7 
Jealets 
lineata. — 
