216 



LBGVNLINOSM. 



[Flemikgia, 



¥. paniculata, 

 F. lineata. 



Leaves simple or 3-foliolate ; flowers in loose 

 panicled racemes., which exceed the leaves ; 

 tracts small, caducous. 



Leaves 1-foliolate. hracts hoat-shaped . I. 

 Leaves 3-£oliolate ; bracts minute, linear 5. 



Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; flowers in spike - 

 like axillary racemes, which fall short of the 

 leaves ; hracts linear or lanceolate. 



Bracts rigid, exceeding the . huds, suhper- 



sistent . . . - . . . 6. F. strict a. 



Bracts neither rigid nor protruded, deci- 

 duous. 



Erect woody undershruhs, with rather 

 tall stems. 



Eacemes condensed, often shorter 

 than the petioles. 



Leaflets large, broadly oblan- 



ceolate . , ■ 7. F. congesta. 



Leaflets smaller, narrowly lan- 

 ceolate . . . . 8. F. prostrata. 

 Eacemes elongated, exceeding the 



slightly winged petioles . 9. F. semialata. 



Low shrubs, with a woody subterra- 

 nean stem, calyx and pods beset with 

 garnet-coloared glands. 



Branches trailing, flowers in short 

 dense long-peduncled racemes . 10. 



Branches erect, flowers in dense 

 elongated racemes . . .11. 



Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, flowers in com • 

 pact heads surrounded by large persistent 

 bracts 12. F. involucrata. 



F. procumhens. 

 F. nana 



1. F. strobilifera. E. jBr. i/i. Ait. Sort. Kew, ed. II, iv, 350; W. &> 



A. Prod. 243 ; D. ^ G. Bomh. Fl. 75 ; Brand. For. Fl. 143; F. B. I. ii, 

 227 (typical form only) ; Watt E. D. Train in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. 

 LXVI, part ii, 42 Sf437. Hedysarum strobiliferum, Linn. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 Hi, 350. 



An erect shrub, 5-10 ft. high, with slender terete branches velvety towards 

 their tips. Leaves 3-4 in. long, obloug or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 rounded at the base ; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs ; petioles ^ in ; stipules 

 lanceolate, scarious. Racemes terminal, 3-6 in. long, the slender zigzag 

 rachis rusty— pubescent ; hracts 1 in. long, shortly stalked, deeply 



