LoTJBEA,] LEGUMINOSM, 275 



A straggling diffuse undershrub. Young parts clothed with long hairs 

 and shorter hooked bristles. Leaves 1- and 3-foliolate ; stipules 

 acuminate from a broad semicordate base, hairy ; leaflets 3-5 in. long, 

 round or obovate, obtuse or emarginate, rarely acute, rounded not 

 cordate at the base, glabrous above, downy beneath; stipels minute, 

 setaceous. Racemes cylindrical, lax, copiously panicled and elongatiiig* 

 in fruit ; bracts imbricating in bud, ovate-cuspidate, hairy, deciduous ; 

 pedicels i-^ in., incurved at the apex, often fascicled. Calyx ^ in., 

 teeth subequal, deltuid-cuspidate. Pod hairy, 2-6-jointed. 



Dehra Dun. Disteib. Eastward to Bengal, Sikkim and Burma, and 

 South to Ceylon ; also in the Malay Islands. 



6. U. prunellsefolia, B. Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5686; F. B. I. ii, 157 ; 



Duthie ^ Prainin Ann. B. Bot. Gard. Calc. IX, 25, t. 33. 



A small undershrub with a much reduced woody stem. Branches 8-16 in. 

 high, erect, herbaceous, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 1-f oliolate ; petiole 

 ^-^ in. ; stipules linear-lanceolate, erect ; leaflet 2^-^ in. long, oblong or 

 lanceolate, obtuse or acute, rounded or truncate at the base, hirsute on 

 the veins and nerves, especially beneath. Racemes about 2 in. long, 

 terminal, simple. Flowers in fascicles ; pedicels z-\ i^-j slender, bristly ; 

 bracts lanceolate, deciduous. CaJya; Jjy in,, bristly, tube campanulate ; 

 teeth lanceolate, lower twice as long as the upper. Corolla bluish, twice 

 the calyx. Pod 5-6-iointed, spiral or hamate, not folded within the 

 calyx ; joints black, sparsely puberulous. 



Eohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur (Duthie's collectors). Distrib 

 Kumatn at 3,000 ft. (T. Thomson), Eastern Himalaya up to 3,500 ft. 

 Flowers in April and May. This plant has all the appearance of having 

 become dwarted by periodical forest fires. 



52. LOUREA, Neck. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 154. 



Herbs, ieave* membranous, stipelkte, 1 -3-foliolate. Flowers in 

 terminal simple or panicled racemes. Calyx membrauous, accrescent, 

 the lanceolate teeth as long as the campaimlate tube. Corolla equal- 

 ling or exceeding the calyx, standard broad, heel obtuse. Stamens 

 2-adelphous, anthers uniform. Ovary few-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 inflexed, stigma capitate. Pod of about 4 small distinct 1-seeded 

 smooth veined joints, included in the calyx. — Species 4, inhabiting 

 Trop. Asia and Australia. 



L. Vespertilionis, Besv. Journ. Bot. i (1813), 122, t. 5, f. 18; W. ^A. 

 Prod. 221 ; F. B. I. H, 154. Hedysarum Vespertilionis, Boxh.; Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 352. 



An erect slender herb with finely downy stems. Leaves 1- rarely 3-folio- 

 late, rachis |-1 in.; terminal leaflet 2-3 in. broad and 4-|- in. long, with 

 2 linear spreading or slightly ascending _2-3-nerved halves, apex of each 

 lobe broadly emarginate and bristle-tipped ; side leaflets if present 

 much smaller, obliquely obversely deltoid. Bacemes simple or slightly 

 panicled, 3-6 i.u. long ; pedicels pubescent, shorter than the calyx, the 



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