1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosa?. 377 



86. Lespedeza bicolor Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Mosc. (1840) 69 ; 

 petiole produced, leaflets sparsely adpressed-puberulous beneath, stipules 

 subulate, calyx and small subincluded pod very sparsely adpressed-hairy. 

 Ledeb. Flor. Ross. i. 715 ; Maxim. Synops. Lesped. 29. Desmodium race- 

 mosum Sieb. 8f Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. i. 121 not of DC. 



North- West Himalaya ; Black Mountain, 6-9000 feet, Buthie 

 7460 ! Hazara ; Dohar, etc., in the Kagan Valley, Buthie' s Collector 

 19308 ! 19309 ! Distrib. Siberia, China, Japan. 



A copiously branched erect shrub, with slender virgate rounded branchlets, 

 adpressed-puberulous or glabrous. Petioles '5-l'5 in. long ; leaflets ovate-rotund, 

 membranous, obtuse or emarginate, with a slender terminal mucro ; green, glabrous, 

 reticulate -venose above, glabrous or sparsely adpressed-puberulous beneath, the 

 stipules slender subulate. Racemes axillary many-fld. lax, much exceeding the leaves, 

 bracts and bracteoles minute ; pedicels £ in. Calyx ± in., teeth ovate or lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acute. Corolla purple, '35 in. long. Pod '25 in. long, rounded-elliptic, 

 mucronate, reticulate. 



96. Lespedeza Prainii Ooll. 8f Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 46 ; petiole produced, leaflets large minutely strigillose beneath, calyx 

 glabrescent, pod quite glabrous. 



Burma ; Shan Hills, 4-5000 feet, Collett ! King's Collector! 



A handsome shrub, 10 feet high, branchlets slender, striate, puberulous, at length 

 glabrescent, internodes abbreviated. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, petiole very slender 

 1 in. long, stipules persistent, narrow-lanceolate, '25 in. long, leaflets shortly petio- 

 lulate, terminal '5-1 in. long, rather exceeding lateral, thin submembranous, obovate 

 with rounded apiculate tips and cuneate bases, dark-green glabrous above, paler 

 strigillose beneath ; stipels obsolete. Flowers purple, '5-6 in. long, in dense, axillary 

 racemes longer than the leaves with slender peduncles and capillary pedicels exceed- 

 ing the calyx. Calyx glabrescent, lobes 5, ovate-acute. Petals glabrous subequal. 

 Pod shortly stipitate, ovate-oblong, *4-*5 in. long, glabrous, reticulate. 



A very handsome species, nearest to L. macrocarpa Bunge, from China, which 

 has, however, a ciliate pod. 



10. Lespedeza decora Kurz. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Desmodium angulatum Wall. Cat. 

 .5729 in part {letter I only). 



This species is very common in the Shan States and in Tenasserim. 



11. Lespedeza parviflora Kurz. 



Also very common throughout the Shan Plateau. 



33. ALHAGI Desv. 



1. Alhagi camelorum Fisch. Ind. Hort. Qorenh. ed. ii. 72 (1812);" 

 Boiss. Flor. Orient, ii. 559. A. maurorum Bah. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 145 

 vix Tournef. 



The Flora of British India adopts the view, suggested by Bentham and Hocker, 

 that the various forms of Alhagi should be reduced to a single species. After a care- 



