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112 li. LKGUMlxos.^. (J. G.Baker.) ITephrosiq. 



jugate (reduced to one in T. Grahami, Wall. Cat 5f>o2), oblong, obtuse, suL- 

 . coriaceous, the end one much larger than the others, 2-3 in. long, J-1 in, broad, 

 green, glabrous above, clothed with persistent white silky pubescence beneath, 

 the nerves prominent; stipules lanceolate, ascending. Peduncles often exceeding 

 the leaves; racemes closely 3-12-flowercd ; flowers casually also in the axils of 

 the leaves; pedicels very short. Calyx ^ m., densely silky ; teeth long, setaceous. 

 Corolla |-4 in., pale red, silky. Pod slightly recurved, 2-2^ in. long, 10-12-seeded, 

 glabrescent. Stf/le flattened, l)earded throughout. 



Var. 1. pulchcrrima ; leaflets large (end one 3 in. long) coriaceous often solitixry, 

 veins below very prominent, bracts ovate-lanceolate, flowers few close, pod per- 

 sistently velvety. T, pulchcrrima, Wight MSS, Nilghiris and Ceylon. ' • 



Var. 2. coccinea; leaflets 1-5 ^-1 in. broad cuneately narrow^ed in the lo^er 

 half, branches closely argenteo-canescent, bracts linear minute, racemes elongatea. 

 T. coccinea. Wall. Cat. 5633 ; PL As. Ear. t. 60. Birma, Wallich. 



Var. 3. intermedia, W. 4^ A.; branches velvety, leaflets much smaller 9-13 

 \-\ in. broad the end one not much larger than the others, the veins less pro- 

 minent ; racemes not so close as in the type. T. intermedia, Graft, in Wall. 

 Cat. 5632. Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



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5. T. spinosa, Pers.-^ DC. Prodr. ii. 254; shrubby, "branches closely 

 arp:enteo-canescent, stipules spiny, flowers 1-2 all in the axils of the leaves. 

 Wall Cat. 5651. W. 8c A. Prodr. 214 {excl syn) ; Wight Ic. t. 372. Galega 



spinosa, Linn, ; Roxh. FL Ind. iii. 383. 



Plains of the ^V^estkrn Peninsttxa and CEyLOX.— Distrib. Java. 



A low shrub, with very numerous terete flesuose ascending branches. Spt^^ 

 spreading, ^— ^ in. Leaves short-petioled, ^-1 in. long; leaflets 5-7j narrow- 

 oblanceolate, rigidly subcoriaceous, truncate, often cmarginate, glabrous above, 

 ghracbus, nearly glabrous below. Flowers all axillary; 1-2 rarely 3 from the nodes; 

 pedicels ^-^ in. Calyx ^ in., teeth linear-acuminate, as long as the tube. Coram 

 red, twice the calyx. Pod J-1 in., nearly glabrescent, recurved, 5-6-seeded. Styl^ 

 much incurved, flattened, glabrous. ' 



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6. T. senticosa, Pers.-^ DC. Prodr. ii. 254; shrubby, branches closely 

 argenteo-canescent, stipules not spiny, flowers 1-2 all in the axils of ^he 

 leaves. W. Sr A. Prodr. 211 ; Wight Ic. t. 370 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 61. 

 Galega senticosa, -imM. Amcun. iii. 19. G. pentaphvlla, Hoxb. FL Ind. iii. 384. 

 T. pentaphylla, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5650. T. elegans. Wall Cat. 5G34. 



Plains of the Western Peninsula, and Ceylon ; Birma, Wallich. 



A low shrub, with copious erecto-patent terete slender branched ; petiole very 

 short; stipules minute, ascending, setaceous; leaflets usually 5, rarely 3, ^ar- 

 row-oblanceolate, \-l\ in. long, truncate or emarginate, green, glabrous abote, 



thinly silky beneath, cuneately narrowed in the lower half. Flowers usually gemmate * 

 pedicels ^ in., argenteous. Calyx ^ in. ; teeth linear, as long as the tube. Coroll^\ 

 more than twice the calyx, argenteous. Pod 1^-2 in. long, 6-8 seeded, ranch 

 recurved, persistently thinly canescent, ♦ 



7. T. purpurea, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 251 ; herl»aceous, stems glahrescent 

 or finely downv, racemes elonirated, pod glabrescent or finely downy slight')' 

 Tecun-ed 6-lO^seeded. Wall.^Cat. 5638 j W. 8f A. Prodr. 213 ; Dalz. §• GH^r 

 Bomb. FL 61. T. leptostachva, DC. loc. cit. Galega purpurea, Linn. ; Boxb- 

 FL Ind. iii. 386. G^. lanceoe'folia, Poxb. FL Ind. iii. 386. G. Colonila aud 

 sericea, Ham. in Ltnn. Trans, xiii. 54-1^5. G. tinctoria, LamJc. ; Poxb. FL 

 Ind. iii. 386, non L. T. stricta, Grah. in WalL Cat. 5639. - T. Taylom, 

 ^ Grah. in. WalL Cat. 5637. T. WaUichii, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5640. T. lobafc*, 

 Orah. in Wall Cat. 5646. T. tinctoria. Grah. in Wall Cat. 5G43. .T. gale- 



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