
          39123. MEIBOMIA FLORIBUNDA. 
From G. H. Cave, Darjeeling, 
India. A shrubby legume up to 5
feet high, with trifoliate leaves and
copious racemes of large pink or rose-
purple flowers, from the tropical and
temperate slopes of the Himalayas up
to 7,000 feet, and in western China.

39124. MEIBOMIA TILIAEFOLIA. 
From G. H. Cave, Darjeeling,
India. Semi-woody, leguminous plant
which sends up annually from a
woody root-stock a number of erect
stems 2 to 4 feet high, bearing trifoliolate, 
more or less downy leaves,
and terminal panicles (8 to 12 inches
long) of pale lilac to dark pink flowers 
1-2 inch long. Flowers from
August to October. Native of the
Himalayas at 9000 feet.

36879. MEIBOMIA UMBELLATA. 
Lala. From C. D.
Stearns, Pago Pago, American Samoa.
Leguminous shrub, 3 to 7 feet high
with densely downy terete branches
becoming glabrous with age; 3-folio-
late, glabrous green leaves; and axillary 
umbels of whitish pea-shaped
flowers. Found on the sand beaches.
A strand shrub of wide tropical dis-
tribution.
        