39123. M E I BO M I A FLORI- 



BU N DA. From G. H. Cave, Darjeel- 

 ing, 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 TILIAE- 

 FOLI A. From G. H. Cave, Darjeeling, 

 India. Semi-w oody, leguminous plant 

 which sends up annually from a 

 woody root-stock a number of erect 

 stems 2 to 4- feet high, bearing tri- 

 foliolate, more or less downy leaves, 

 and terminal panicles (8 to 12 inches 

 long) of pale lilac to dark pink flow- 

 ers 1-2 inch long. Flowers from 

 August to October. Native of the 

 Himalayas at 9000 feet. 



36879. MEIBOMIA UM- 

 B ELL ATA. Lala. From C. D. 

 Stearns, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 

 Leguminous shrub, 3 to 7 feet high 

 with densely downj^ terete branches 

 becoming glabrous with age; 3-folio- 

 late, glabrous green leaves; and axil- 

 lary umbels of whitish pea-shaped 

 flowers. Found on the sand beaches. 

 A strand shrub of wide tropical dis- 

 tribution. 



