Bhenus.'] l. LEGUMiNOSiB. (J. Gr. Baker.) 141 



thoides, Jaub. ^ Spaeh. lU. iii. 68, t. 254. E. horrida and ferrucfinea, Javh. 8c 

 S^ach. III. p. 159-160. 



Punjab-Himalaya, alt. 4-8000 ft., Stewart.— Distbib. Persia, Afghanistan, Beloo- 

 chistan. 



A lo'vr imdershrub, densely armed -with woody erecto-patent spines 1-1 J in. long. 

 Iieaves shorter than the spines, digitately trifoliolate ; leaflets lanceolate, suheoriaceous, 

 sericeous, |-| in. long. Flowers sessile in dense stalked heads, on peduncles at most 

 as long as the spines, each head surrounded by a whorl of large lanceolate tracts. 

 Cali/x ^ in., densely clothed with long brown silky hairs. 



30. GEXSS APSIS, W. & A. 



_ Annuals. Leaves with two pairs of leaflets. Flowers in terminal racemes, 

 with large membranous persistent veined ciliated persistent bracts. Calyx deeply 

 2-lipped ; upper lip entire, lower obscurely toothed. Corolla 2-3 times calyx ; 

 standard roundish ; keel obtuse. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary short-stalked, Hovulate ; style incurved, stigma minute capitate. Joints 

 oipod 1-2, turgid in the middle, with a distinct flat border, reticulately-veined, 

 1-seeded, indehiscent. — Distkib. Sp. 3, the other Trop. African. 



1. Cr. cristata, W. 8f A. Prodr. 218 ; flowers not more than J as long 

 as the long-bristled bracts. Dah. §• Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 62. Zornia disperma, Grah. 

 ^ Wall. Cat. 5663. Hedysarum bijugum, Klein MSS; 



Plains of Westebn Pehiksula, Cetlon, Ava, Maktaban, TENASSEKOf, and 

 Peou. 



A densely csespitose trailing annual, with slender naked branches ^2 ft. long. 

 Leaves petioled, with a very short rachis; leaflets obovate, oblique, glabrous, truncate, 

 ^-^ in. long ; stipules lanceolate, membranous, distinctly spurred. Heads dense, ter- 

 minal, 4-2 in. long ; bracts much imbricated, ^ in. broad, reniform, ciliated with firm 

 yellow bristles ^ in. long. Calyx ^ in. long Corolla twice the calyx. Joints 1-2, 

 J in. long. 



2. tx, tenella, Senth. in Hohen. PL Ind. Or. No. 659 ; flowers nearly or 

 quite as long as the short-bristled bracts. 



Westebn Peninsdxa. 



Habit of the last, but much smaller. Leaflets all four nearly from the same 

 point, 1-^ in. long, obliquely obovate, truncate, glabrous. Eacemes copious, termi- 

 nal, peduneled, 4-12-flowered ; bracts obliquely oblong, less imbricated, |-| in. broad, 

 strongly veined, ciliato-denticulate. Calyx -^ in., deeply cleft. Corolla jelloT/r, J in., 

 Joints 1-2, with a flat edge, round, with a turgid centre. 



31. ONOBRYCKXS, Gaertn. 



Herbs. Leaves numerous, odd-pinnate, eistipellate. Flowers numerous, red, 

 in long-peduncled axiUary racemes. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5, dis- 

 tinct. Corolla much exserted ; standard broad ; wings short ; keel obtuse. 

 Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 1-2-ovulate ; style 

 filiform, incurved, stigma terminal minute. Pod compressed, reniform, inde- 

 hiscent, 1-2-seeded, alveolate or echinate. — Disieib. Species about 50, Euro- 

 pean and Oriental. 



1. O. Stewartli, Baker. 



Punjab ; Hazara, Br. Stewart. Eawul Pindee, Dr. Aitchison. 



Stems slender, 1^2 ft., glabrescent. Zco/'-rachis 3-4 in. long, including distinct 



