Lespedeza.li l. lbguminosji. (J. G. Baker.) 143 



lanceolate grey-silky below, umbels sessile or short-peduncled in tbe axils of 

 ihe leaves, corolla large, pod small sessile. 



Along the Himalayas, temperate region, alt. 5-10,000 ft. ; Simla and Kttmaon 



to SlKKIM. 



Stems 1-3 ft., densely pubescent. Leaves moderately close, ascending ; leaflets 

 ^J in. long, rigidlji coriaceous, glabresoent on the upper side, densely grey-silky be- 

 low ; petioles 1- J in. Umbds 4-8-flowered, usually sessile ; bracteoles linear, half as 

 long as the calyx. Cfflija ^ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, 2-3 times 

 the tube. Corolla |-^ in. ; keel tipped with purple. Pod considerably shorter than the 

 calyx. 



4. Ii. eleg'ans, Camb. in Jaoquem. Voy. Bot. 43, t. 52 ; upper leaves 

 suppressed, petiole produced, leaflets oblong grey-silky beneath, umbels sessile, 

 pod small sessile. Maxim. Synop. Gen. Leap. 40. 



Kashmir, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. 



Stems 2-3 ft., finely downy. Petiole J-f in. ; leaflets ^-| in. long, obtuse, gla- 

 brescent above, densely grey-silky beneath. Flowers 6-8, in sessile umbels, rarely in 

 short racemes, reaching low down the branches and forming at the top a close leafless 

 paiiide. Calyx §— ^ in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, very long. Corolla 

 half as long again as the calyx. Pod ^ in. long, oblong, downy. 



5. Xi. elliptica, Bemth. Cat. Oriff. PI. No. 1745; petiole produced, leaflets 

 large obovate-oblong thinly grey-canescent beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes 

 the upper panicled, pod stipitate exserted. Maxim. Synops. Gen. Leap. 27. 



Khasia, temperate region, alt. 5-6000 ft., Griffith, Hook. fZ. and Thomson. 



Stems woody, reaching several feet high, finely pubescent. Leaves not crowded ; 

 leaflets subcoriaceous, 1-lJ in. long, obtuse, green, glabrous above, grey, finely downy 

 below ; petiole 1-1^ in. Racemes many-flowered, close or lax, the peduncles some- 

 times as long as the leaves ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracteoles linear, as long 

 as the tube. Calyx ^— i in., densely canescent ; teeth lanceolate, acute, twice as long 

 as the tube. Corolla deep red, twice as long as the calyx. Pod oblong, J in. long, 

 finely downy, distinctly stalked. — ^Very near the common East Asian L. bioolor, Turcz. 

 Led. Fl. Eoss. i. 715 (L. matorum, Champion), from which it diifers mainly by its long 

 acute calyx-teeth. 



6. Ii. tomentosa, Sieb. ; Maxim. Synops. 50 ; petiole short, leaflets large 

 obovate-oblong densely downy beneath, flowers in peduncled racemes, pod sessile 

 included. Hedysarum tomentosum, Thvmh. Fl. Jap. 286. L. glomerata, JSbraem. ; 

 BC. JProdr. ii. 350. 



■Western Himalaya, temperate region, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth. — Distrib. 

 China, Japan, Korea. 



Stems 2-3 ft., erect, densely pubescent. Leaves distant ; leaflets 1-2 in. long, ob- 

 tuse, thick, subcoriaceous, at first thinly silky above, densely silky, and the veins raised 

 beneath ; petioles l-J in. ; stipules subulate, persistent. Racemes distinctly peduncled, 

 2-4 in. long, moderately close, rarely congested, sessile (i. glonwrata, Hora.) ; pedicels 

 very short. Calyx ^-| in., densely pubescent ; teeth linear-subulate, 3-4 times the 

 tube. Corolla whitish, half as long again as the calyx ; standard not longer than the 

 wings and keel. Pod shorter than the calyx, oblong, pubescent. — ^Very near L. hirta, 

 Elliott, of North America. 



Sttb&en. Oxyrampllis, Wall. Keel acute and much incurved, like that 

 of a Orotalaria. (Campylotropis, Sunge.) 



7. Xi. macrostyla, Baker ; petiole short, leaves small thinly clothed be- 



