348 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosfe. [No. 2, 



formerly all seemed clear. And in this paper allusion is made to both 

 these kinds of difficulties, wherever they have been detected. 



From the present review the writer regrets to have had to exclude 

 the large genus Astragalus ; many species belonging to that genus have 

 been added to the Indian Flora owing to the extension of the Indian 

 Empire during recent years along its north-western frontier. It is his 

 hope however to present to the Society at another time a separate review 

 of the Indian species of Astragalus and of the closely allied genus 

 O.ri/tropis, which has also for the present been omitted from considera- 

 tion. 



1. PIPTANTHUS D. Don. 



1. PlPTANTHTJS NEPALENSIS D. Don. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Assam ; Khasia ; at Lailankote, etc., 

 C. B. Clarke ! G. Gammie ! Jaintea ; Prain ! Manipur, on a hill north- 

 east of Chingsow, Watt ! Burma ; Chin Hills, C. R. Dun ! 



2. THERMOPSIS R. Br. 



3. Thermopsis lanceolata B. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. iii. 3 - T 

 finely downy, leaflets ovate-oblong, corolla yellow, pod narrowly oblong- 

 linear. DC. Prodr. ii. 99 ; Ledeb. Flor. Alt. ii. 112 ; Flor. Boss. i. 510. 

 Sophora lupinoides Linn. Sp. PI 374. 



Eastern Temperate Himalaya; Phari; King's Collectors! Distrib. 

 Siberia, China. 



General habit of the other Himalayan species. RootstocJc woody. Leaves 

 petioled, petioles short ^~i in., leaflets glabrous above, downy below, 1| in. long, 

 A in across, apex obtuse base cuneate. Stipules like leaflets and almost as large. 

 Flowers verticillate 3-nate, stalks -}-% in. Calyx finely downy, the three lower 

 teeth hardly as long as tube. Pod distinctly stalked, 6-8-seeded, thin, flat, 2£ in. 

 long, ^ in. across from suture to suture. 



An extremely interesting addition to the Himalayan Flora. In general appear- 

 ance it much resembles the other species but is easily distinguished by its long 

 narrow pods and its petioled leaves. 



4. ARGYROLOBIUM Eckl. & Zeyh. 



2. Argyrolobium roseum Jaub. fy Spach. 



This species is said in F. B. I. to be ' nearly or quite glabrous ' with leaflets truncate 

 or emarginate and with corollas yellow tinged with red. The result has been that 

 this species has been frequently sent to Calcutta, after comparison with the F. B. I. 

 description, with the suggestion that it is either a new species or the one next to 

 be described. Sometimes, but very rarely, it is nearly glabrous and occasionally 

 all the leaflets are truncate or emarginate : much more usually, however, the 

 leaflets are mueronate. The flowers are " rose " (Jacquemont) or " purplish ' • 



