352 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Senna, 
ly equal and fertile, the superior three small and sterile. 
Legume linear, very thin; smooth, somewhat pedicelled, 
with a gland, or conical process on the upper edge of the 
pedicel. This is particularly conspicuous in the germ, 
and is a good specific mark and immediately distinguish- 
es it from S. Sumatrana which has no such gland and is 
the only species known to me, forwhich it can be mistaken. 
Seeds generally about fifteen, separated by very firm dis- 
tinct partitions, and attached by convolute slender cords 
to the upper margin. 
19. S. prostrata. R. 
Perennial, prostrate. Leaflets minute, twenty-paired, 
daggered. Peduncles from two to three-flowered. Sta- 
mens five ; all fertile. Legumes straight, six-seeded. 
Teling. Nalla Jeelooga. 
A native of pasture ground. Flowers during the wet 
and cold seasons. 32 ome 
Root woody, perennial. Stems perennial, numerous, 
spreading every way and pressing close upon the ground, 
round, a little hairy, about a foot long. Leaves pinnate, al- 
ternate, bifarious. Leaflets from twelve to twenty-six pait, 
‘minute, linear, acute, the lower margin ciliate. 
a long pedicelled, peltate one between the lower pair of 
leaflets. Stipules semilanced, very acute. Flowers above 
the axils, peduncled, small, yellow, from one to three. 
Calyx. Leaflets equal, daggered. Stamens five, nearly 
equal ; no sterile filaments. Legumes linear ; partitions 
obliquely-transverse, as is Galega, smooth. Seeds from 
six to seven, shining, dark brown. 
_ Cattle eat it. 
» 20.8. dimidiata, Buch.. i aS : 
_ Annual, slender, erect. Leaflets thirty pair, with aflat 
gland between the lowermost. Peduncles above the axil8 
from two to four-flowered- Stamens four, or five, all fer 
