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D. Prain — Some additional Leguniinosae. 



[No. 2, 



8. Sesbanja grandiflora Pers. 

 Often cultivated, especially in Southern India, as a support for the Pepper- Vine. 



C. pygmxa. 



24. CARAGANA Lamk. 



Key to the Indian Species. 



Leaf-rachis suppressed 

 Leaf rachis produced : — 

 ■ Leaf-rachis terminating in a naked point :— 



Leaf-rachis persisting as a woody spine after fall of leaflets j 

 calyx-teeth long : — 

 Iiipe pods woolly within : — 



Pods short, hardly thrice calyx, hirsute externally 

 Pods long, 4-5 times calyx, glabrous externally 

 Ripe pods glabrous within : — 



Leaflets lanceolate, longer than broad : — 



Leaflets pubescent with long spreading hairs on both 



surfaces 

 Leaflets glabrous above, sparsely adpressed-pubescent 

 below 

 Leaflets hardly longer than broad, oblong or ovate : — 

 Leaflets densely pubescent, pod glabrous 

 Leaflets finely hoary, pods pubescent : — 

 Pods turgid curved, abruptly pointed ... 

 Pods narrow straight, gradually tapering 

 Leaf-rachis usually deciduous with leaflets ; calyx-teeth 

 short : — 

 Stipules persistent as strong spreading woody spines ; 



flowers solitary 

 Stipules weakly spinescent ; flowers several from one node 

 Leaf-rachis bearing a leaflet at its tip : — 



Leaf-rachis persisting after fall of leaflets ... ... 



Leaf-rachis not persisting : — 

 Leaflets retuse at apex 

 Leaflets rounded at apex 



2. Caragana conferta Benth. 

 Add to description of F. B. I. : — 



Pod linear acute, If in. long, ± in. across, straight, glabrous within, 

 externally sparsely covered with long spreading silky white hairs. 



This has recently been collected in a complete state by Mr. Duthie in Astoro ; 

 Gudhai valley, 11-12000 ft., Duthie n. 12196 ! 



3. Caragana Gerardiana Boyle. 

 Add to localities of F. B. I. :— 



Eastern Himalaya; at Ha-thom-py-ong, in Chumbi, Dr. King's Col- 

 lectors ! 



36. Caragana chdmbica Prain; leaflets 8-12, narrowly ovate-lan- 

 ceolate acute, densely pubescent, stipules pungent, flowers 1-2, short- 

 pedicelled, pod glabrous within. 



C. Gerardiana. 

 C. brevispina. 



C. chumbica. 



C. conferta. 



C. polyacantha. 



G. ambigua. 

 C. ulicina. 



C. Aitchisoni. 

 C. arborescens. 



C. crassicaulis. 



C. cuneata. 

 C. acaulis. 



