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Group 5. Tinctorice. Leaves odd-pinnate. Racemes many-flowered^ usually 

 peduncled. Tods linear, usually many-seeded. 



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16. Z. trifollata, Linn. ; DC, Prodr. ii. 223 ; suffiuticose, branches and 

 i»pm*hmnmia leaves thinlv clothed with adnressed hairs, racemes sessile con- 



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W. ^ A. Prodr. 201 ; jyiffM Ic. t. ^314 ; Ualz, c^ Gibs. J5omb. ±L b\}. 

 strata, Wilkl ; DC. Prodr. ii. 233 ; Roxh. Hart Beng. 98 •, FL hid. iii. 373. 

 L moluccana, DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. multicaulis, DC. Pi'odr. ii. 223. I. canes- 

 cens, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5448. I. pereprrina, DC. Prodr. ii. 224. I. orixensis, 

 Roxb. MSS. I. adeuophylla, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5462. I. congesta, Grah. in 

 Wall Cat. 5471. 



Himalaya's (ascending to 4000 ft. in Kumaon) to Ceylon, Tekasseuim, Heifer.— 

 DiSTRiB. Java, China, Philippines, North Australia. 



Perennial, Stems copiously branched, trailing or suberect, 1-2 ft. long, soon 

 glaLrescenfc. Stipules mmute, setaceous; petiole shorter than the leaflets, which are 

 always 3, digitate, oblanceolate, ^-1 in. long, grey-green above, glaucous belo^v vltli 

 black dots. Racemes 6-12-flowered, usually shorter than the petiole. Calyx ^ in. ; 

 teeth long, setaceous. Corolla red, 3-4 times the calyx. Pod deflexed, ^-f in. long, 

 the sutures acutely bordered, the valves not torulose. 



17. I. vestita, RaJcer; suffruticose, branches and leaves densely pubes- 

 cent, leaflets 3 the end one sessile, racemes sessile congested, pod straight 

 pubescent many-seeded. 





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Westebx Peninsula ; Pulney hills, Wight, 

 . Closely allied to the preceding, differing mainly in pubescence. Branches very 

 slender, densely csespitose, under a foot long, ascending, clothed like the petioles, and 

 leaves -vsith short spreading soft brownish hairs. Petiole ^-| in. ; leaflets crowded, 

 ohovate, soft, thick, obtuse, ^-| in. long. Racemes as in /. trifoUata, Calyx densely 

 pubescent, teeth setaceous, plumose. Pod clothed with brown pubescence like that 



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18. Z. trita, Linn.Jil ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232 ; suffruticose, branches and mem- 

 branous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs, leaflets 3 obovate the 

 end one stalked, racemes congested, pod straight tetragonous 6-10-seeded not 

 torulose. Roxh. Fl Ind. iii. 371 ; Don Prodr. 245 ; Hooh. Comp. Rot. Mag. 

 t. 16; W. ^' A. Prodr. 20 i; Wall Cat. 5449; Wight Jc. t. 315, 386; Dab. 

 ^ Gibs. Romh, Fl 60. I. cinerea, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 232. I. timoriensis, 

 Wilkl] DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I. canescens, Lainh.-, DC. Prodr. 224, non Wall 

 L hedysaroides, Lamh.-, DC P'odr. ii, 232. I. arcuata, Willd.] DC Prodr, 

 ii. 232. I. rigida, Wilhl ; DC. Prodr. ii. 224. I. armata, Wall Cat. 5453. 

 I. argentea, Wall Cat. 5455, in part. I. Leschenaultii, DC. Prodr. ii. 223. I- 

 ternata, Roxb. MSS. I. -virgata, DC. Prodr. ii. 224, non Roxb. 



Plains of India from the Himalayas to Ceylon; Birma, — Distrib. Trop. Africa* 

 Malay isles, North Australia. 



An undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, with firm slender branches, soon glabrescent. Stip^^^ 

 minute, seticcous ; petiole J--J in. ; leaflets always 3, the end one 1-1 J in. long, tho 

 side ones opposite. Racemes 6-12-flowored, usually sessile, seldom over an inch long. 

 Calyx ^-|- in.,white-canescent; teeth long, setaceous. Corolla purplish-red, twice the 

 calyx. Pod deflexed, f-1^ in. long, the firm glabrescent valves obtusely keeled. 



19. Z. subulata, Vahl] DC. P^odr. ii. 232; suffruticose, branches a 

 membranous leaves thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs, leaflets 5 obovf 

 the side ones opposite, racemes elo'ngated, pod long recurved 10-15-seeded i 



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