"02 L. leguminosj:. (J. G. Baker.) ICyamopsis. 



16. CYABZOPSIS, BC. 



Erect annuals, with 3-foliolate leaves, laterally attached hairs and small pur- 

 plish flowei-s in axillary racemes. Calyx-tuhe ohlique ; teeth unequal, the lowest 

 •elongated, setaceous. Petals caducous : standard and wings narrow ; keel ohtuse, 

 slightly inciun-ed. Stamens nionadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary 

 jsessile, linear, 6-8-ovuled ; style short, filiform, much incurved, stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear, straight, suhtetragonous, 2-valved, septate hetween the seeds. — 

 DisTRiB. Species 2, the other Arabian and trop. African. 



1. C. psoralioides, DC. Prodn ii, 216; WalL Cat. 5920; W. ^' A. 

 Prodr. 197; Wujht Ic. t. 248. Psoralea tetragonoloha, Linn.Mant, 104. Lupinus 

 trifoliatus, Cai\ Jc, t. «59. Dolichos psoraloides, Lcwih Diet. ii. 300. D. faha3- 

 formis, Lllerit. ; Roxh. FL Ind. iii. 316. 



Plains from the Himalaya to the "Westerx Penij^sula, hut often, perhaps always, 

 cnltivated. — Distkib. Afglianistan. 



A roLust, erect annual, 2-3 ft. high, clothed with adpressed grey hairs attached by 

 the middle, as in Indigofera, Stipules long, linear-setaceous ; leaves petioled, 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets ovate, acute, inciso-dentate, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 6-30 in copious close short- 

 peduncled axillary racemes ; bracts setaceous, protruded. Calyx J-| in. CoroUd 

 .-scarcely exsened. Pod thick, fleshy, straight, l|-2 in. long. 



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Herhs or shmhs clothed more or less densely with adpressed hairs laterally 

 attached, often silvery-canescent. Flmvers in copious axillary racemes. Cr//y^^' 

 minute, campanulate ; teeth 5, suhequal or the lowest longest. Corolla caducous ; 

 standard ohovate ; keel straight, not rostrate, spurred on each side near the base. 

 StanieTis diadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary sessile, usually many- 

 ovuled ; style short incur\-ed, stigma capitate usually penicillate. Pod usually 

 linear-cylindrical, rarely oblong or globose, turgid, rarely flattish, in one section 

 crescent-shaped, densely muricated, — Distrib. Species 250-300, spread through 



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Stjbge>'. 1, Acantbonotus, Penth. Poi recurved, sickle-shaped, 1- 

 seeded, muricated along the ventral sutm'e. 



1. 1. ecbinata, Wilkl ; DC Prodr. ii. 222 ; Poxb. Hort. Beng. 98 ; Fl 

 Ind. iii. 370 ; Wall Cat. 545G ; W. 8r A. Prodr. 198 ; Wu/ht Ic, t. 316 ; Dalz. 

 Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 57. Hedysarum nummularifoliiun, Z«ww. Sp. PI. 1051 (exch 

 $yn.). H. rotundifolimn, Vahl S)/?nb. ii. 81. II. erinaceiun, Poir, IHct. Snppl* 

 vi. 393. Onobnchis rotundifolia, Desv. ; DC Prodr. ii. 3-18, 0. cuneifoUa, DC 

 Prodr. ii. 348, Indigofera prostrata, Roxb. MSS. 



Plains of Ceylox and the "Westerx Penixsi^la. — Distrib. Guinea. 



A diffuse much-branched annical ^\it)l stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves simple, nearly 

 sessile, broad-oLovate, obtuse, mucronate, glabrescent, membranous, ^-J in. long ; sti- 

 pules linear-seticeous. Racemes copious, short-peduncled, 6-10-flowered. Calyx 15 

 3n. ; teeth setaceous, very long. Corolla pinkish, \ in. Tod under \ in. long, laterally 

 flattened, beaked with the persistent style. 



SxTBG-Ex. 2. SpbaBridiophora, Desv. Pod minute, unarmed, globose^ 

 3-see3ed. 



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2. X. linifolia, Retz ; DC. Prodr. ii. 222 ; lioxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 370 ; Cor. 



n. t. 196; Wall. Cat. 5489; W. 8r A. Prodr. 198; Wight Ic. t. 313 ; Dah. ^• 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 68 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 188. Sphajiidiopliora linifoliiun, Besn. 

 .Journ. BoL ilJ. 125jt. 6, tig. 35. S. abjssinicum, Jaith. et Spach. HI. t. 494. 



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