218 LEGCMINOS^, [Elemingia. 



slightly cuspidate, deltoid at the base, 3-nerved and deeply plicate,, 

 rigidly suhcoriaceons, grey-canescent on "both surfaces ; stipels ; petiole 

 |-2 in. ; stipules raDher small, lanceolate, scarioas, suh-persistent. 

 Floivers in copious axillary and terminal panicled racemes, crowded 

 towards the ends of the branches ; pedicels very short ; hrocts minute,- 

 linear, Calyx-teetk lanceolate. Corolla little exs.rted, reddish, heel 

 beaked. Pods f-j in., finely downy, and covered with mealy glands, 

 2-seeded. 

 Northern Oudh. Disteib. Throughout India from the base of the 

 'Himalaya to Ceylon ; also in Burma, Siam, the Malady Islands and in 

 N. Australia. Flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. 



6. F. stricta, E'.«5. Eort. Beng. 56 ; Fl. Ind, Hi, 342 ; W.<^- A. Prod. 



242 ; F. B. I. a, 228. 



A tall shrub with woody and distinctly 3-quetrous branches clothed with 

 scattered appressed hairs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; leaflets 6-12 in. 

 long, oblong, acuminate, thinly subcoriaceous, glabrous above, hairy 

 on the veins beneath ; petiole 4^-5 in. long, 3-quetrous, sulcate, not 

 winged ; stipules 2 in. kng, lanceolate, rigidly scarious, caducous. 

 ■ Racemes 2-4 in. long, dense, oblong-cylindrical, often fascicled ; bracts 

 linear, firm, mtich exceeding the buds ; pedicels very short. Calyx 

 nearly 3 in. long, teeth linear, the lowest much L nger than the others. 

 Corolla'^ as long as the lowest calyx-tooth ; Iceel obtuse. Pod about | in, 

 long, glabrescent. 



Dehra Dun, in swampy ground, also in Oiadh. Disteib. Himalaya, at low 

 elevations, from Kumaon to Sikkim, C. a:.d S.India, Sylhet, Assam, 

 Burma, extending to China. Flowers during March and April. 



7. F. congesta, RoxK Eort. Beng. 56 ; Fl. Ind. ii% 340 ; W, 8f A. 

 Prod 241 .■ B. Sf G. Boml. FL 75 ; Brand. For FL 143 ; F. B. I. ii, 228 

 (excL syn. F. angustifoUa. B.oxh. and all vars.) Watt E. B. (mpart); Prain 

 inJourn. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI, 43 4' 440. Vern. Bara sdlpdn, hancum, 

 (Dehra Dun). 



An erect woody shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with slender triangular sulcate 

 branches, silky towards their tips. Leaces 6-9 in. long, 3-foliolate; 

 petioles 2I-85 in., hardly winged ; stipules ^ in long, linear, caducous ; 

 leaflets 3-5 in. long, oblanceolate, acute, the terminal one cuneate and 

 the lateral obliquely rounded at the base, subcoriaceuus, dark green 

 and puberulous above, the lower surface with minute ; uby-coloured 

 glands and silky hairs on the veins : lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, the 

 lowest pair long and very oblique ; stipules 0. B'cemes dense, axil- 

 lary, shorter than the petioles, usually fascicled in the lower axils ; 

 bracts lanceolate, membranous, silky outside, deciduous. Cahja; densely 

 siky; teeth lanceolate, the lowest exceeding the others. Corolla 

 with purple wings ; standard white striped with pink. Pod oblong, 

 I in. long, tomentose, 2-seeded. 

 DehraDun, common in sal forests. Disteib. Throughout the hotter 

 parts of India, and in the Malay Pen. and Java. Flowers April— Aug. 



