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\Q8. Indigofera arborba (Roxb.) arboreous; leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets from 6 to 9 pair, oval emarginate ; racemes 

 the length of the leaves, wings expanded : legume fluted, 

 straight, smooth. — Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3 p. 881 



1 Flowering branch — 2 a dissected flower. Copied from 

 Roxburgh's drawing. 



369. Indigofbra atropurpurea (Buchan :) shrubby 

 erect: leaves pinnate; leaflets from 6 to 8 pairs, oval, 

 smooth : racemes when in flower as long as the leaves, 

 in seed twice their length : legumes cylindric, straight, 

 reflexed, from 8 to 9 seeded.— Roxb. Fl. Ind. S p. 311. 



1 Flowering branch — 2 a portion of a raceme, with 2 

 pods — 3 a pod after dehiscence. Copied from Roxburgh's 

 drawing. 



370. Tephrosia senticosa (Linn.) shrubby, diffuse, 

 nearly glabrous : leaves pinnated: leaflets 1-3 pairs, ob- 

 cordate, the terminal one the largest: upper side gla- 

 brous, under whitish with a very fine pubescence : sti- 

 pules subulate : flowers in pairs, axillary, towards the ex- 



375. Osbeckta truncata (Don.) herbaceous, an- 

 nual : stems slightly branched, 4-angled; the angles 

 clothed with adpressed and afterwards spreading or^e- 

 flexed !::»irs : leaves spreading or deflexed, ovate, strigose, 

 quite entire, ciliated, 3-nerved, the four upper ones ap- 

 proximated and forming a kind of involucre under the 

 flowers : flowers (very small) terminal, nearly sessile, ag- 

 gregated : calyx urceolate, covered with spreading simple 

 or palmate long bristles ; segments 4, deciduous : appen- 

 dages deciduous, shortish, crowned with bristles : anthers 



8, truncated (without any beak !) ovarv crowned with 

 16-20 bristles, 



W. and A. Prod. p. 322. 



1 Plant natural size— 2 a flower partially dissected 

 anthers back and front views 



3 



4 ovary cut vertically — 5 

 capsule natural *ize—§ cut vertically — 7 cut transversely 

 — S a seed. 



376. Osbfckia virgata (Don.) shrubby : branches 

 straight, twiggy, 4-angled, hispid: leaves petioled, Ian- 

 ceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, quite entire ; upper 

 side sprinkled with adpressed hairs; under hirsute on 



ca- 



lyx-tube urceolate, sprinkled with simple and 2-3-partite 

 spreading bristles, sometimes nearly naked ; segments o, 

 deciduous; appendages deciduous, being usually deeply 

 trifid or sometimes simple bristles: anthers 10, shortlv 

 beaked; ovary crowned with numerous bristles: style 

 incurved near the apex.— W. and A. Prod. p. 323. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 dissected flower 

 back and front views 



transversely — 7 a seed. 



4 capsule— 5 cut vertically— 6 cut 



377. Osbeckia aspf.ra (Blume) shrubby : branches 

 obscurely 4-angled, rough from short strigose bristles : 

 leaves shortly petioled, oblong-ovate, or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, obtuse at the base, 3-nerved; upper side co- 

 piously clothed with adpressed bristles ; under hirsute 



tremities of the branches nearly sessile : calyx-segments ^e nerves, otherwise glabrous : flowers aggregated 

 subulate: legumes compressed, glabrous, slightly curved 

 at the point. — W. and A. Prod. p. 211. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 dissected flower — 3 legume — 4 

 the same open. Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



371. Tephrosia incana (Graham Galega incana 

 Roxb.) shrubby, diffuse, every where except the upper 

 surface of the leaves tomentose or woolly : leaves pin- 

 nated; leaflets about 6 pair, obovate, retuse ; upper side 

 pubescent or silky, under woolly : stipules lanceolate, 

 reflexed : racemes terminal, elongated, interrupted, many- 

 flowered : flowers fascicled, almost sessile: calyx villous, 

 with long fulvous hairs ; segments subulate, several times 

 longer than the tube : vexillum silky : legumes dtflexed 

 and falcately curved upwards, obtuse, densely fulvous- 

 woolly, 6-S-seeded. — V\\ and A. Prod. p. 212. 



1 Flowering branch — 2 legume open. — Copied from 

 Roxburgh's drawing. 



372. Tephrosia spinosa (Pers.) shrubby; branches 

 numerous, woody, rigid, spreading in every direction, 

 clothed with white soft adpressed somewhat cottony hairs: 

 leaves pinnated ; leaflets 2-4 pair, cuneate, emarginate; 

 upper side glabrous, under clothed with adpressed white 

 silky hairs : stipules subulate, patent, rigid, spinous (in 

 the wild plant); flowers axillary, 1-2 together, short pe- 

 duncled : calyx hairy ; segments subulate, about the 

 length of the tube : vexillum hairy: legumes spreading, 

 much compressed, linear, falcate, more or less clothed 

 with somewhat adpressed hairs, tj-8-seeded. — W. and A. 

 Prod. p. 214. 



Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



3 anthers 



3/3. Desmodium cfphalotes (Wall.) (Hedysarum 

 cephalotes, Roxb.) arborescent : branches obtusely tri- 

 angular, densely clothed when young with adpressed 

 white silky pubescence, afterwards more glabrous: leaves 

 trifoliolate ; leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, clothed 

 with woolly or silky hairs when young, soon glabrous; 

 nerves parallel, woolly beneath : stipules scariose, acu 

 urinated : peduncles axillary, several times shorter than 

 the petioles, many-flowered: lower calyx-segments nar- 

 rower and longer than the others: legumes densely vil- 

 lous, 2-3-jointed.— W. and A. Prod. p. 224. 



I Flowering branch— 2 cluster of legumes — 3 a single 

 legume. Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



374. Desmodium recurvatum (Graham. Hedy^arum 

 recurvatum Roxb.) shrubby: branches spreading, re- 

 curved, clothed as well as the raceme with short ad- 

 press: d hairs, angled ; young shoots triquetrous : leaves 

 bifarious, trifoliolate ; leaflets ovate or oval, glabrous 

 above, pubescent beneath: stipules lanceolate, acumi- 

 nated : racemes terminal, drooping before the flowers ex- 

 pand, afterwards very long (1-2-feet) : bracieas lanceo- 

 late surrounding several smaller setaceous ones : flowers 

 several together : legumes narrow -linear, straight on both 

 sutures, clothed with short hooked hairs ; joints more 

 than twice as long as bioad. — Graham Prod. p. 226. 



on the nerves, and ^ harshly pubescent between them : 

 flower* on short pedicels, terminal, somewhat racemose : 

 calyx-tube cup-shaped, copiously clothed with adpressed 

 rigid pubescence ; segments 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, de- 

 ciduous ; appendages caducous, consisting of a tuft of a 

 few (sometimes only 1) bristles: stamens 10; anthers 

 acuminated but scarcely beaked : style incurved at 

 the apex ; ovary crowned with numerous bristles,— W. 

 and A .Prod. p. 323. ' 



1 Flowering branch— 2 dissected flower— 3 capsule cut 

 transversely— 4 cut vertically— 5 a seed — 6 the same cut 

 longitudinally -7 the embryo detached. 



378. Loranthus tomentosus (Heyne) all over grey- 

 ish with starry t omentum ; branches terete : leaves al- 

 ternate, roundish-obovate, obtuse, somewhat cuneate at 

 the base, petioled, at length nearly glabrous on the upper 

 side : peduncles axillary, solitary, bearing an umbel of 

 3-5 pedicelled villous flowers ; bractea foliaceous, much 

 larger than the ovary, unilateral, close to the ovary, cu- 

 neate-obovate, obtuse : calyx-limb 5-toothed : corolla tu- 

 bular, gibbous on one side above the middle, curved, 

 splitting into 5 linear recurved unilateral segments, one 

 of the fissures 



cb deeper than the others : filaments 

 muricated: anthers linear.- W and A. Prod. p. 385. 



In this plate three varieties are represented— varying 

 in the forms of the leaves and of the bracteas, but agree- 

 ing in all having large foliaceous bracts. 



1 Flowering branch— 2 a flower with its attached brac- 

 tea— 3 a dissected flower— 4 stamens— 5 ovary after the 

 fall of the corolla. 



_ 379. Capparis mijruayana (J. Graham) shrubby, 

 diffuse, armed with short recurved (orange coloured) 

 prickles ; young shoots tomentose : leaves small, round- 



Copied from Roxburgh's drawing. 



ish, glabrous : flowers large : upper sepal larger than the 

 others, saccate : berry loiig peduncled, oval, ribbed. 



^ For the drawing and a solitary specimen of this very dis- 

 tinct species, I am indebted to the late Mr. John Graham 

 of Bombay. It is found in ravines at Mahableshwur hills. 

 " Flowers white, beautifully suffused with red, large 

 and showy." Nimmo in Graham's catalogue. 



1 Flowering branch - 2 anthers— 3 ovary cut longitudi- 

 nally. 



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