Galega. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, _ 383 
dric, perfectly erect, five-pointed. It flowers in the rains, and 
the seed ripens in the cool season. 
23. 1. purpurescens, R. 
Sub-arboreous, Bark a little scabrous, Leaves pinnate. 
Leaflets ten pair, from oval to broad-elliptic, sub-emargi- 
nate, a little hairy. Racemes axillary and from the leafless 
branches, length of the leaves. 
A native of the interior of the peninsula of India. In the 
Botanic garden it bas in two years grown to be a stout small 
tree, with a distinct trunk, and numerous spreading branches. 
It flowers in February and March, at which time few plants 
surpass it in beauty, the flowers being large, very numerous, 
and of a bright rose-colour changing to lively purple. Seed 
ripens in May. 
24, I. virgata. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets as far as twelve pair, 
sub-alternate, or opposite, linear-oblong. Racemes the length 
of the leaves. 
_ A native of Nepal. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta it 
flowers during the hot season, March, April and May. _ 
: 
GALEGA. Schreb. gen. N. 1206. 
Calyx with subulate teeth, nearly equal. Legume with 
Rg streaks between the seeds, 
a G. mina Willd. iii. 1250. 
Suffruticose, hoary, Leaflets minute, about nine, wedge- 
shaped. Stipules spinescent. Flowers axillary. Legumes 
scimitar-shaped, horizontal, smooth, about six-seeded. _ 
Teling. Mullo-yampalli. : A 
A small ramous species, a native of dry barren lands on 
the coast of Coromaridel. 4 gis 
