114, L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) lTephro$ia. 



W. & A. Prodr. 212; WL Ic, t. 371. Galoga incana, JRoxh. FL Ind. iii. 385. 6. 

 Colutea, WUld. Sp.PLiiu 1246 {excluding description of pod). T. Ehrenbergian^ 

 Schweinf. PL Mthiop, 18.— Distribution of the type. 



10. T- pauclflopa, Gmh. in Wall. Cat. 6G35 ; herbaceous, stems finely 

 silky, flowers usually all in the axils of the leaves, pod glahrescent or finely 

 downy slightly recurved 6-8-seeded. T. anthylloides, Hochst. ; Baker in Oliv. 

 I'lor/Trop. Africa, ii. 118 ? ' 



Plains of SciNDE, Stocks, Dalzell; Punjab, Stewart; Birma, Wallich. 



Stems densely csDspitose, under a foot high. Stipules ascending, setaceous; 

 leaflets 5-9, narrow oblanceolate, finely silky beneath, 1-1^ in. long, often ema^ 

 ginate. Fl<ywers usually all geminate on short pedicels in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, casually produced into a sparse raceme. Calyx ^ in., finely silky. Corom 

 red, twice the calyx. P^^ 1-2 in. by ^ in. ; style glabrous, flattened.— Probably a 

 third variety of T. purpurea. The Indian differs from the African plant by 

 smaller flowers and fewer seeds. 



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DOrBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. FUSCA, W. ^ A, Prodr, 210 (T. argentea, Wigld in Wall. Cat. 5648, non Pers.\ 

 is a plant gather^ by Dr. Wight on the Dindygul hills, of which the flowers are not 

 known. In general habit, leaves, inflorescence, vestiture, and the shape of the calyx 

 and pod, it resembles closely Mundulea suberosa, but the leaflets are shorter and more 

 obtuse, and the pod dehisces readily, like that of a Tephrosia, and the sutures are no^ 

 thickened so as to form a prominent border. The calyx is that of § Brissonia. 



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23. SSSBANZA, Fers. 



Soft-wooded shnihs or herhs. Leaves long, very narrow, abruptly-pinnfttef 

 with very numerous deciduous linear-ohlong obtuse mucronate leaflets. Flowers 

 in axillary racemes. Calyx carapanulate, shallowly 2-lipped or 5-toothed. Co- 



rolla much exserted ; petals all with long claws; standard broad ; keel obtusei 

 straight, or in § Agati recurved and subrostrate. Stamens diadelphous ; anthert 

 uniform. Ovan/ linear, stipitate, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, glabrous, 

 stigma capitate. Pod very long and narrow, dehiscent, with distinct septa he* 

 tween the very numerous seeds. — Distrib. Species about 20, spread everywhere 

 through the tropics. 



SuBGEN. 1. Susesbania. Flowers smstll i bud straisrht. 



1. S. CBgryptlaca, Pers,; DC. Pro^. ii. 264; perennial, unarmed, V^ 

 flexible twisted. Wall. Cat. 5656 ; W. ^ A. Prodr.'2U ; Wt. Ic. t. 32 ; Bedd. tj^ 

 Sf/lv. 86, Anal Gen. t. 12, fig. 3 ; Brand. For. Flor, 137 ; Boiss. FL Or: ii. l^j* 

 -^schvnomene Sesban, Linn. ; Roxh. FL Ind. iii. 332. M. indica, Burnt. FL I^^^' 

 169. Coronilla Sesban, Willd. Sp. iii. lU7—Iiheede Hort. MaL vi. t. 27. 



Plains from the Himaxayas to Cetlox and Siam, ascending to 4000 ft. in ^^^ 

 north-west. — Distrib. Cosmopolitan in tropics of old world. 



A soft- wooded slirub of short duration, 6-10 ft. high, with terete twiggy brancke?| 

 2€awp» 3-6 in, long; leaflets 21-41, glabrous, linear-ol>long, pale green. Flo^^ 

 C-10, in copious lax axillary racemes ; pedicels filiform, \-\ in. Calyx ^ in., glab^^ 

 Xfiembriinous ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla ^-J in., glabrous, pale yellow or i}^ 



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picta, Pers,\ Bat. Reg, t. 873), more or legs tinged with deep red., Pod 6-9 in. lox^* 

 weak, torulose ; sutures little thickened. * ^ ' '---yK '' ' il' ' ' ^ 



2. S- actileata, Pers. j DC Prodr. ii. 265 ; annual, muricated, pod lo^ 



firm not twisted nor torulose; WalL Cat. 5655 ^ W. & A. Pi^odr. 214 } Dal^ ^ 



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