~ Smithia.] LEGUMINOS#. 417 
585. LespepEza sericea Miq.; F. B. I. ii. 142. 
Chota Nagpur, on higher hills, rare : not reported from 
Parasna 
An erect undershrub with long, slender, virgate branches. 
264. Smithia Ait. 
Herbs or undershrubs; leaves even-pinnate, the rachis ending 
in a bristle, rarely with a terminal leaflet; leaflets small, sensi- 
tive ; ‘qed persistent, membranous oF scarious; stipels 
lowers 
t 
deeply 2- Ee calyx; upper lip entire or emarginate, lower entire 
or shortly 8-lobed. Petals exserted ; standard suborbicular, short- 
clawed ; sit hone oblong, yo obovate; keel incurved, 
obtuse. Sta connate in 2 lateral bundles 0 of 5 each, the 
bundles at, at ‘lightly anette in sone! anthers uniform. Ovary 
sessile or ae many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved; stigma 
terminal, capitat Fruit a lomentum of few or numerous, 
flattened or Peni 1-seeded ries folded together inside the 
yx. Seeds reniform; strop 
Calyx rigid, with close, parallel, aire 
Flowers in short, simple racemes ; Lane ae calyx slightly pais 
Flowers in pairs in the axils of the leaves; leaves and calyx distill 
bristly ; upper nodes of stem congested in a hea 
geminiflora var. eddies 
Calyx membranous, with distinctly separated anastomosing veins +-— 
Racemes dense axillary ; bracteoles nearly as lon: 
Oe cide er gra 
586. iodhas sensitiva Ait.; F. I. iii. 342; F. B. I. ii. in, 
E. D. 8. 2259. 
In all the provinces. 
An annual weed o 
Beng. Nala-kashina. 
587. SMITHTA GEMINIFLORA Roth var. CON 
f waste places. Hind. Oda-brini ; 
verta Bak.; F. B. I. 
i. 149 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A weed of waste places. 
