AUiagi.y i. LEGCMiNOSJ!. , (J. G, Baker.) 145;; 



leaflets ovate-elliptic, J-1 in. long; chartaceous, dark, green and glabrous above, glau- 

 ceseent and pilose below. Bacemes axillary, stiff, ftilvo-pubeseent, twice as long as the 

 leaves ; bracts caducous ; pedicels very short. Calyx densely fulvo-pubesoent, ^ in. ; 

 teeth subulate. Corolla^ scarcely twice as long as the calyx, probably blue. Immature 

 fod oblique ovoid acuminate, silky, Mabtaban, Eev. F. Mason, ex Kurz loe. cit. 



I cannot separate from Ii. tomentosa by the description L. pinetorum, Kurz in 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 42, 2, 231, from Martaban. 



33. AZiKAeX, DesT. 



Lovir shrub. Leaves simple. Flmoers axillary. Calyx campanulate ; teeth S, 

 distiact, minute. Corolla exserted; standard broad; keel obtuse. Stamem 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile, 6-8-ovulate ; style fili- 

 form, incurved ; stigma minute, capitate. Pod linear, subcontinuous or moni- 

 liform ; joints oblong, small, turgid, smooth. — ^Distrib. Species 1, spread from 

 Songaria to Greece and Nubia. 



1. A. maurorum, JDesa.; DC. Prodr. iii. 352; Wall. Cat. 6760 j 

 W. §• A. Prodr. 232 ; J)aZz. ^ Gihs. Somb. Fl. 67 ; Boiss. Fl. Orimt. ii. 558. 

 A, napaulensium, BC. loc. cit. A. mannifera, Bese. ; Javh. Sr Spach. III. t. 401. 

 Hedysarum Alhagi, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 344. Manna hebraica and nepa-f 

 lensis, Bon Prodr. 247. , 



■ PiAiNS of the NoETH West Provinces, Ufpek Ganoes and Concan, ascending to 

 3000 ft. on the Ejshengunga. 



A low shrub, armed with copious subpatent hard pungent spines ^1 in. long. 

 Leaves simple, drooping from the base of the spines or branches, oblong, obtuse, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers 1-6 from a spine, on short pedicels. Calyx 

 glabrous, ^-J in. Corolla reddish, 3 times the calyx. Fod 1 in. long or less, falcate 

 or straight. 



34. KED'VSAZIUBI, Linn. 



Herbs. Leaves munerous, odd-pinnate, exstipellate. Flowers usually red, 

 in copious long-peduncled axillary racemes. Calyx-tube campanulate or 

 tubular; teeth 5, distinct, long or short. Corolla much exserted; petals 

 unequal in relative proportion in the different species ; keel obtuse. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, stalked, few-ovuled ; style very, 

 long, filiform, abruptly inflexed, stigma minute terminal. Pod of 1-3 flattened 

 indehiscent joints, in our species not muricated, but reticulately veined on the 

 faces, the sutures usually furnished with acute entire or toothed borders. — 

 DiSTKiB. Species about 50, spread through the North Temperate zone. 



* Calyx-teeth equalling or exceeding the tube. 



1. K. kumaonense, 5e)iiA. ilf'SjS. ; stemless, leaflets small subcoriaceous- 

 obovate-oblong, bracts lanceolate, joints small firm turgid, sutures not bordered. 



KmiAON,. temperate region, alt. 9000 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom. 



Leaves and peduncles in a dense rosette from a thick woody rhizome, iea/rachises' 

 4-6' in.long, including distinct petiole; leaflets 17-26, J-f in. long, obtuse, with a 

 muero, dark green, glabrous above, pale grey with adpressed silky hairs below ; veins- 

 distinct.i Inflorescence seen only in a late stage ; pedicels very short. Calyx |-i in. ; 

 teeth setaceous, from a lanceolate base, exceeding tube. Corolla |-| in. Joints of 

 pod solitary in the specimens seen, rather downy, oblong, under I in. long. 



3. K. sikkimense, Bmth. MS8. ; stem dwarf, leaflets smaU linear- 

 oblong subcoriaceous, standard and wings shorter than the keel, joints large 

 membranous with toothed borders. 



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