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Procumbent or trailing shrubs. Leaves simple or of 3 nearly 
sessile leaflets, entire, lower surface gland-dotted. Flowers in 
small clusters, racemose, each cluster hidden within a large 
folded bract, or terminal, on long, axillary stalks without enve- 
loping bracts. Calyx-tube short ; teeth 5, narrow, long-pointed, 
the lowest the longest. Petals nearly equal, longer than the 
calyx : standard broadly ovate, spreading ; keel incurved, obtuse 
or acute. Upper stamen free, others united. Style incurved, 
thickened near the middle, tip glabrous or hairy ; stigma small. 
Pod short, oblong, turgid ; seeds 1 or 2. 
Leaves simple, flower- clusters racemose, each enclosed 
by a large, folded, bract . . . . . .1. F. fruticulosa. 
Leaves of 3 leaflets. Flower- clusters terminal on long, 
axillary stalks without enveloping bracts . . . 2. F. vestita. 
1. Flemingia fruticulosa. Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 227, under 
F. strobilijera. Branches procumbent, 6-18 in., spreading from 
the base. Leaves simple, cordate, ovate or nearly orbicular, 
Fig. 41. Flemingia fruticulosa. 
1J— 3 in. ; upper surface nearly glabrous ; veins on lower surface 
prominent. Flowers pink or white, ^ in. long, in small clusters 
enclosed by folded, membranous, orbicular bracts nearly f in. long 
and arranged in two rows in short racemes. Keel slightly incurved, 
obtuse. Style-tip glabrous. Pod \ in. ; seeds 2. (Fig. 41.) 
Simla, on banks ; August-October. — W. Himalaya, Dalbousie to Kurnaom 
4000-9000 ft. . • 
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