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the lower. Petals when present twice as long as calyx, subequal ; standard obovate 

 emarginate ; wings linear-oblong ; keel obtuse. Pod rounded. 



An exceedingly distinct species, ascertained during recent years to be quite 

 common in the Khasia Hills. 



Subgen. Til. Oxyramphis Wall. (Campylotropis Bunge ; Maxim.) 



7. Lespedeza macrostyla Bah. in Maxim. Synops. Lesped. 22 in 

 part. Delete from synonyms of F. B. I. : — L. Royleana Miq. Ann. 

 Miis. Lugd. Bat. iii. 50 (L. sericea Royle not of Miq.) ; also Oxyramphis 

 stenocarpa Klotzsch in Bets. Pr. Wold. 158 t. i. fig. 2, (0. sericea Qrah. 

 in Wall. Gat. 5349). 



Delete all localities except Nepal ; Wallich (Cat. n. 5348) ! 

 76. Lespedeza stenocarpa Maxim. Synops. Lesped. 23. L. 

 Royleana Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. 238. L. sericea Royle MSS. not of Miq. 

 Oxyramphis stenocarpa Klotzsch, Beis. Pr. Wald. 151, t. I, fig. 2. 0. 

 sericea Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5349. 



N.-W. Himalaya ; Kamaon and Garhwal, veiy common, Govan 

 (Wall. Cat. 5349/B)! Wallich 5349/A! Boyle! Griffith! Thomson! 

 Anderson ! King / Gamble ! Lace ! Hume ! Stoliczka ! 



To Mr. Maximowicz Indian botanists are indebted for having pointed out that 

 the Nepalese plant (L. macrostyla) is very different from the representative form in 

 Kamaon and Garhwal (L. stenocarpa) ; the two are easily distinguished by their 

 pods, those of L. stenocarpa being grey-silky, narrowly oblong, and gradually taper- 

 ing upwards to the base of the style, while those of L. macrostyla are shortly broadly 

 ovate, abruptly rounded at the apex whence the long style arises, and are tawny- 

 pubescent. The leaves too of L. macrostyla are only sparsely tometose beneath, 

 those of L. stenocarpa are densely so. 



Mr. Maximowicz refers, in part, to L. stenocarpa another plant that occurs 

 in the North- West Himalaya, of which Falconer n. 443 K. D. is an example. 

 In this, however, he is certainly in error, for Falconer n. 443 includes two 

 plants that cannot be referred either to L. macrostyla or to L. stenocarpa but 

 which are much more closely related to L. eriocarpa; one of them indeed is that 

 species. 



The F. B. I. gives Khasia as a locality of L. macrostyla in the sense which incor- 

 porates the two preceding species. No botanist has, however, hitherto sent either 

 L. macrostyla or L. stenocarpa to Calcutta from the Khasia Hills. 



8. Lespedeza eriocarpa DC. 



Var. Falconeri Prain ; petiole hardly produced, leaflets smaller 

 ovate-acute, pods (young) more softly tomentose ; habit spreading as in 

 " L. paniculata Royle." L. macrostyla Maxim, in part, not of Bah. 



Garhwal ; Falconer n. 443 K. D. (flowering specimens only) ! 

 Simla ; Elysium Hill, Gamble 4968 ! 



The fruiting portion of the sheet of Falconer's collection quoted is only L. 

 paniculata Royle, which Mr. Baker very justly has reduced to L. eriocarpa. The plant 

 represented by the flowering specimens will, in all probability, when more fully 

 known have to be recognised as a species apart, L. Falconeri. 



