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on the Hortus Malabarictts, Part I »i.> 



Flora Zeylanica (30'J.). in that plant there are kt legumina ttricta 

 glabra, caulis glaber, pedunculi ex singulis alts nud%\ apice tpicati, 



glabri." I must therefore now acknowledge the plants to be dif- 

 ferent, and Plukenet's I shall call 



Galega (seu Tephrosia) scricea, leguminibns pubescentibus arcua- 

 tis recurvis, foliolis 8 — 10-jugis subtus senceis cuneatis, ra- 

 cemis oppositifoliis sessilibus, stipulis subulatis. 



The plant, which I suppose to be the Colonil, I found in the 

 south of India very abundant, and I have since found it in the; 

 north. Dr. Roxburgh considered it as the Galega purpurea, in 

 which opinion I long agreed with him. It differs from the one 

 above described merely in being entirely smooth : but agrees 

 very well with almost every thing said in the Vlm-a Zeylanica 

 (301.) and inWilldenow (Sp. PL iii. 1247.) concerning the Ga- 

 lega purpurea, only the legumina cannot be called ttricta adscen- 

 dentia, they are recurvata subarcuata. This is so small a diffe- 

 rence, that I overlooked it until I compared the plant with the 

 Coronilla zeylanica herbacea flare purpurascentc of Barman (Thes. 

 Zeyl. 11 . t.32.), which is the proper authority for the Galega pur- 

 purea; and I now am convinced that I was mistaken, the plant 

 of Burman having racemes longer than the leaves and supported 

 by long peduncles. I therefore now call this plant 



Galega (seu Tephrosia) Colonila, leguminibus glabris arcuatis re- 

 curvis, foliolis 8 — 10-jugis subtus nudis, racemis oppositi- 

 foliis sessilibus, stipulis subulatis. 



Habitat in India; aridioribus. Vidi in Carnata, Draveda, Ma- 

 gadha. 



Galega tinctoria ditfert foliis subtus sericeis. 



The examination of the difficulties respecting the Colonil hav- 

 ing; led me to consider some of the other species of Galega or Te- 



phrosHi 



