•272 LBaVMINOSM. [Elbiotis. 



1. L. sericea, 'M.iq_, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. Hi, 49 ; F. B, I. ii, 142. 



An erect undersliruTD, 2- 4ft. high, with long, slender tough hranches. 

 Leaves ascending, crowded ; petio/es short ; ieajlets i- ^ in. long, linear- 

 cuneate, emarginate, rigidly coriaceous, very shortly stalked, usually 

 glahrous above, clothed beneath with appressed grey or white silky 

 hairs. Flowers 2-4, on short pedicels in the leaf-axils; bracteoles 

 minute. Calyx with long linear-subulate teeth. Corolla twice the 

 calyx, white tipped with purple ; Heel obtuse, much incurved. Fod ^ in., 

 sessile, thinly silky ; style persistent, twice as long as the pod. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble), Eohilkhand (T. Thomson). Dtsteib. Himalaya 

 from Hazara to Assam, up to 8,0U0ft. ; Mt. Abu in Eajputana, Behar, 

 C, India, Upper Burma ; also in China, Japan and N. Australia. 

 Flowers during the hot season. 



2, L. stenocarpa, Maxim. Syn. Lesped. 23 ; Prain in Journ. As. 8oc. 

 Beng. LXVI, part ii, 376. L. sericea, Boyle Mss. {not of Miq.). L. 

 Eoyleana, Miq. L. macrostyla, F. B. I. ii, 143 {in part). 



An undershrub, with long virgate densely white-pubescent branches. 

 Petioles about ^ in. long; Leaflets |-| in. long, obovate-cuneate, 

 emarginate and often mucronate, rigidly coriaceous, densely white- 

 tomentose beneath. Racemes short, densely sikly ; tracts ovate, silky, 

 concealing the buds. CaJya;-teeth longer than the tube. Corolla abcut 

 ^ in. long, reddish-purple. Pod grey-silky, narrowly oblong, gradually 

 tapering upwards to the base of the persistent plumose style. 



Siwalik range, common on cliffs and steep banks. Djsteib. Outer 

 ranges of the W. Himalaya, from Simla to Kumaon. Flowers during the 

 latter part of the rainy season. 



50. ELEIOTIS, i^C. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 153. 



A procumbent herb with usually 1-foliolate stipellate leaves^ 

 Flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx with very short tube and 5 

 subequal setaceous teeth. Corolla minute, standard broad ; keel 

 obtuse, adhering to the wings. Stamens 1-adelphous, anthers 

 uniform. Ovary subsessilc; 1-ovuled ; styh siior., uncinate or nearly 

 straight, thickened at the base, stigma capitate. Pod of a simple 

 dimidiate membranous veined joint, with a flattened straight dorsal 

 and a rounded ventral suture, — A single species, confined to India 

 and Ceylon, 



' E. sororia, DC. Mem. Leg. vii, 350 ; W. ^ A. Prod, 231 ; F, B. I. ii,. 

 153. Hedysarum sororium, Linn. ; Roxh. Ft. Ind. Hi, 352. 



Stem hardly any ~, branches very long, slender, trailing, 3-sided, glabrous^ 

 Leaves subglabrous, membranous, consisting usually of a single short 

 stalked stipellate terminal leaflet, rounded or broader than long. 



