] L. LEGTJMiNOSJ!. (J. G. Baker.) 151 



11. S. grandis, Bmth. MSS. ; steins robust not bristly, leaflets 20-24, 

 racemes forming a lax corymbose panicle, bracteoles | calyx, joints 20-25 

 venose. 



Base of the Himalayas in Sikkim, Herb. Griffith, Hooh.fil.. 



Stems stout, erect, 3-4 ft. high. iea/-rachis 2^3 in. long ; leaflets linear, obtuse, 

 without bristles, J-^ in. long; lower stipules 1 in. long. Bacemes subsecund, 6-12- 

 flowered, forming a corymbose panicle ^ ft. broad ; pedicels erect, |-J in. long, with a 

 few deciduous bristles ; bracteoles J in., obtuse. Calyx J in. long ; lips equal, trun- 

 cate, obtuse, with only a few small bristles at first. Joints largest of all, J in. 

 broad. 



12. S. blanda, Wall. Cat. 6669 ; stems densely bristly, leaflets 6-10, 

 racemes copiously panicled, bracteoles half as long as the calyx, joints 5-6 reti- 

 culated. W. 8f A. Prodr. 221 ; Wight. Ic. t. 986 ; Dak. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 64. 



East Himaiatas, tropical zone up to 4000 feet, East Bengal, Nelghieis. 



Perennial, suffruticose. Stems 11-2 ft. high, the bristles very dense, spreading, 

 fine, fragile, iea/'-rachis under 1 in. long ; leaflets flrm, obtuse, bristle-tipped, ^-| in. 

 long, with copious flne deciduous bristles on the rachis, edge and midrib. Bacemes 

 forming a dense terminal panicle, with corymbose branches ; pedicels ^^-J in., densely 

 bristly. Cah/x J-J in., densely clothed with fine bristles on back and edge ; lips 

 equal ; upper broad, truncate. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Joints ^ in. 

 broad. 



Vae. 1. paniculata ; stems more slender, flowers fewer smaller crowded at the 

 end of the peduncles. S. paniculata, Am. Pucf. 12. — Hilly tracts of Ceylon, alt. 

 2-7000 ft. 



Tab. 2. racemosa ; annual, more slender and fugacious, leaflets more membran- 

 ous, calyx ^^ in. long, corymbs formed of a few close subsecund racemek 1-lJ in. 

 long. S. racemosa, Het/ne in Wall. Cat. 5670 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 221 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 63. S. hirsuta, JDalz. in Kew Journ. iii. 135 ; BaXz. ^ Gibs. BomS. Fl. 63.— 

 Plains of Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



89. HSSCKTrNOIHCEZrE, Linn. 



Erect herbs or imdershrnbs. Leaves with very numerous close ssnaitite odd- 

 pinnate small linear leaflets. Flowers in sparse racemes. Calyx deeply 2-lipped, 

 thelips faintly toothed. Corolla fugacious ; standard orbicular ; keel not beaked. 

 Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, liijear, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, stigma terminal. Pod linear, with a stalk 

 longer than the calyx and 4-8 flattened 1-seeded separating joints. — DismiB. 

 Species about 80, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



1. S!. indlca, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 820 ; stems slender much branched, 

 peduncles viscid, calyx and small corolla glabrous. W. ^ A. Prodr. 219 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 405 ; Dah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 62. ^. aspera. Wall. Cat. 6666, ncm Dirm. 

 JE. kashmiriana, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. Bat. 40, t. 48. Hedysarum Neli-Tali, 

 Boxb. Hart Beng. 57 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 865. M. pumila, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 321. 

 M. dASasa.,Willd. ; DC. Prodr. loc. eit. ; Wall. Cat. 5665. M. viscidula, Willd. 

 Enum. 776. M. Roxburghii, Spreng. Syst. iii. 822. Smithia aspera, Bo.vb., 

 Bart. Beng. 56 ; Fl. Ind. iii. M^—Bheede Sort. Mai. vs.. t. 18. 



Himalayas to Cetlon and Siam, ascending to 5000 ft. in Kashmib and 4000 ft. in 

 KuMAON. — DisTEiE. Japan and everywhere in tropics of old world. 



A suffruticose annual, 1-3 ft. high, glabrous, pale green, with slender terete 

 branches. Leaf-racMs 2-3 in. long; leaflets close, 41-61, linear, obtuse, l-nerved; 

 stipules lanceolate, membranous, deciduous, with a large auricle. Flowers 1-4, in co- 

 pious axillary racemes ; peduncle and pedicels usually viscid ; bracts small, lanceolate, 



