1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosa?. 383 



66. Uraria paniculata Clarke, Joum. Linn. Soc. xxv. 15, t. 4 ; 

 stems erect, leaflets large narrow-ovate, acute, mucronate; racemes 

 laxly paniculate, lower calyx-teeth not elongated. 



Naga Hills ; Kohima, 3000 feet, Clarke n. 40924 ! 



Stems 3-6 feet high, small twigs and racemes covered with long spreading hairs 

 brown below and with white tips, scattered in a close brown short tomentum ; 

 petioles 2 in. long densely-brown tomentose, leaflets 4-6 in. long, 2|-3 in. across, 

 green and very sparsely hairy above, paler beneath more closely covered with brown 

 hairs on midrib and veins, white over the interspaces. Racemes a foot long, nearly 

 as wide, much branched laterally ; bracts ovate-acute, externally brown-tomentose. 

 Calyx ■£• in., much as in U. hamosa. Corolla 2-3 times the calyx, rose-purple. Joints 

 5-6, black, pod completely exserted, with a few hairs on the sutures, otherwise 

 glabrous, reticulated. 



This is an extremely distinct species, nearest perhaps, as Mr. Clarke says, to 

 17. hamosa but differing in the points that he notes. Its most striking peculiarity, 

 which it shares with the next two species, is that its pods are far exserted. 



6c. Uraria gracilis Prain; stems erect, leaflets small ovate-ob- 

 long, racemes laxly paniculate, lower calyx-teeth not elongated. 

 Burma ; Sagaing, Dr. King's Collectors ! 



Branches woody, very slender, shortly pubescent. Leaves very like those of U. 

 hamosa, terminal leaflet 1J in. long, £ in. wide, base truncate, apice retuse mucro- 

 nate. Racemes axillary and terminal, all laxly paniculate ; bracts very small ovate- 

 acute, externally sparsely puberulous as is the calyx. Calyx £ in., as in U. hamosa. 

 Corolla 2-3 times the calyx, purple. Joints 4-6, black, puberulous, pod quite exserted 

 as in U. paniculata. 



Very like U. hamosa, but more slender than that species usually is and with very 

 different, much smaller, not cuspidate bracts, also with different pods. In its lax 

 inflorescence it resembles U. 'paniculata ; this it likewise does in having exserted 

 pods, but it is a much smaller plant with different tomentum and very different 

 leaves and bracts. 



* * * Leaves usually all 1-foliolate. 



lb. Uraria latifolia Prain ; stems erect, leaflets orbicular cordate 

 at base, apex subacute or acute, racemes simple close cylindric. 

 Borma; Fort Stedman, King's Collectors! 



Branches stout woody, densely clothed with short spreading hairs. Leaves 

 5 in. in diam. shortly hairy on the raised veins below, secondary nervation very promi- 

 nent; petiole 1|— 2 in. Racemes terminal only, dense, 4-8 in. long; bracts narrow 

 ovate -acuminate ; pedicels 4— f in., abruptly recurved at tip after flowering. 

 Corolla white, exerted. Joints of pod 2-3, black, pubescent with short straight hairs. 



The leaves of this species much resemble those of U. cordifolia for which at 

 first sight it might be mistaken, especially as the flowers are white as in that species. 

 But the inflorescence and bracts are totally different as are the pods which are more 

 like those of U. crinita and U. acuminata, 



7c. Uraria Collettii Prain ; stems erect, leaflets orbicular cor- 

 date at base ; apex subacute or acute, racemes copiously panicled. 



