1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosae. 375 



Upper Burma ; Shan Hills at Toungyi, 5000 feet elev., Collett ! 

 A rather large shrub, the flowering branches thickish, angular, adpressed-silky. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, silvery-sericeous everywhere, shortly petiolulate, rachis 

 and petiole 1-1'5 in. long ; leaflets thick, soft, elliptic, terminal 1*25-1"75 in. long, 

 "75-1 in. wide, lateral pair rather smaller. Flowers '5 in. long, in dense racemes, 

 pedicels shorter than calyx, bracts small persistent. Calyx '2 in. long, sub-2-labiate, 

 lobes narrow acute, the two upper almost completely connate, everywhere softly 

 hirsute. Petals subequal glabrous ; standard broad, claw very short ; wings ob- 

 long, claw long slender; keel 2-auriculate above the long, slender claw; long- 

 beaked. Stamens 2-adelphous. Ovary shortly stipitate, bearded along the upper 

 suture, elsewhere glabrous. Pod not seen. 



6c. Lespedeza pinetorum Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2. 230 ; 

 petiole distinct, leaflets large ovate-lanceolate acute softly velvety 

 above, densely softly tomentose beneath, flowers is very dense sessile 

 racemes, pod sessile hardly exserted. 



Burma ; Nattoung Mts., Bevd. Gross ! Pegu, Bookee Ridges, 4-6000 

 feet, Kurz 1637 ! Tenasserim ; Moolyet Range, common, Gallatly ! 



A stout erect simple or branching shrub 2-4 feet high ; all parts densely tawny- 

 pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate, petiole *6-*8 in. hardly produced, densely villous ; 

 leaflets very shortly and stoutly petiolulate, 2-3*5 in. long, 1-1*25 in. wide, base 

 cuneate or rounded, tip mucronulate, coriaceous, subrugose under the soft velvety 

 pubescence, prominently nerved and everywhere softly tomentose beneath. Flowers 

 *35 in. long, in very dense racemes 1*5-3 in. long, *7 in. across, pedicels shorter than 

 the calyx, bracts small persistent. Calyx '2 in. long, sub-2-labiate, lobes subulate, 

 everywhere softly hirsute. Petals subequal glabrous, standard broad. Pod dimi- 

 diate-ovate, "25 in. long, silky. 



A very fine and very distinct species. 



Subgen. II. Microlespedeza Maxim. Keel transverse obtuse, flowers 

 often apetalous, 1-3 fasciculate, axillary. Small annuals. 



6d. Lespedeza striata Hook. Sf Am. Bot. Toy. Beech. 262 ; her- 

 baceous, rigid, suberect, stems hoary, stipules longer than petiole, leaflets 

 cuneate-oblong or obovate, obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, margin ciliate, 

 veins numerous parallel, flowers axillary 1-3, shortly pedicelled, corolla 

 when present twice the calyx ; pod in perfect flowers slightly, in 

 apetalous flowers far exserted. Miq. Prol. Fl. Japon. 237 ; Maxim. 

 Synops. Lesped. 56 ; Benth. PI. Hong-Kong. 85. L. stipulacea Maxim. 

 Prim. Fl. Amur. 85, 470 ; Schmidt, FL Sachal. 124. Hedysarum stria- 

 tum Thunb. Fl. Japon. 289. 



Khasia ; common, Mann ! Clarke nn. 18604 ! 40531 ! 45227 ! Dis- 

 trib. China; Corea ; Mandschuria ; Japan; Saghalien; Bonin. 



An annual herb 3-15 in. high, somewhat branched. Stipules striate, adpressed. 

 Leaflets shortly petiolulate, rigid, midrib beneath adpressed -strigose, elsewhere 

 glabrous except the ciliate margins, '35 in. long. Bracteoles 2, ovate, striate, ciliate, 

 adpressed to calyx-base. Colyx narrowly campanulate, striate subangled plicate, 

 5-fid, teeth almost equalling tube, the two upper narrower and rather shorter than 



