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appressed silk-hairy cluster in the axils of the leaves, those of en 
lower clusters often apetalous with imperfect stamens; calyx 2 
nearly 3 lin. long, slightly pubescent, the lobes stiff, lmear- cause 
: lla 4 lin. long; s almost rotaindate; com- 
pressed, appressed silk-hairy, 14 to 2 lin. long, l- rarely 2- 
aay Ys s * 
Has.—aAva hills east of Bhamo.—Fl. May. 
2. L. pinetorum, Kz.—An erect branched or almost simple- 
stemmed shrub, 2-4 ft. high, all parts softly tawny pubescent, the 
stems angular ; stipules 2-3 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent ; leaves ee! 3-foliolate, on a strong tawny pubescent 
petiole 4- 1 in. long; leaflets on a very thick and short petiolule, 
elliptically to oval-oblelg, blunt or bluntish with a mucro, 1-2 in. - 
long, almost coriaceous, puberulous and almost wrinkled above, 
beneath densely pubescent, the nervation prominent ; flowers rather 
small, yellowish with the keel pale-rose at the tip, on pubescent 1- 
2 lin. ‘Tong pedicels, forming dense rather robust tawny pubescent 
racemes in the axils of the leaves and usually collected also ina 
short panicle at the end of the branches, flexuose ; calyx 24-3 lin. 
long, tawny villous, the lobes subulate; corolla about 34 to 4 lin. 
long; pods obliquely ovate, ‘compressed, stylose-acuminate, about 
3 lin. se appresed silky pube 
Has.— uent in the drier i —— especially the pine forests, 
of the Martaban hills, east of Tounghoo, at 4,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation —Fl. Fr. 
M we —1.—SS.=Metam. 
3. L. decora, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 144. pes erect branched 
shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, ae stems angular and minutely greyish, 
when young appressed ta ubescent ; stipules about 3 lin. long, 
stiff, linear-subulate ; Taavas pinnately 3-foliolate, on a slender 1-14 
in. long petiole; leaflets shortly petioluled, oboval to almost elliptical, 
rounded with a mucro, chartaceous, 1-14 in. long, dark-green and 
glabrous above, ianeatb glaucescent and minutely appressed ag 
cent ; flowers bright-blue, middling-sized, on slender about $ an 
long. * raha Si aera pedicels, forming short but slender ‘awe 
glandular-pubescent persistent-bracted racemes often collected into 
ort panicles in the axils of the a and at the end of the branches ; 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, about a line long, elan- 
dular-puberulous; calyx about 3 Hin. long, tawny pubescent, the lobes 
ovate, acuminate; corolla } an in. long; pods (unripe) obliquely ovate- 
lanceolate te, acuminate, compressed, shortly appressed silk-hairy. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests, senpectelly the the aa forests, at 4,000 
to ~ ft. elevation.—Fl. March ; Fr. Apr. = 
L. parviflora, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 144.—A shrub, the 
Sabet, angular, appressed silky-puberulous ; oe stiff, lingass 
