386 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Galega. 
greater part of the year. These plants delight most in the 
sandy lands at no great distance from the sea, 
6. G. purpurea. Willd, iii, 1247. 
Shrubby, sub-erect,smooth. Leaflets about seven pair, cu- 
neate, smooth, Stipules filiform. Racemes terminal, Bractes 
three-fold, subulate, three-flowered. Legumes ascending, 
sickle-shaped ; smooth, from six to seven-seeded. 
Coronilla zeylanica herbacea, Burm. Zeyl..77.t. 32. 
A native of the sandy lands of the coast of Coromandel, 
and im blossom most part of the year. 
7. G, lanceeefolia, Roxb. i yuey 
Shrubby, dichotomous. Leaflets from thirteen to nineteen, 
lanceolar, Stipules subulate. Racemes terminal, and lateral ; 
rachis angular. Bractes ensiform, many-flowered. Legumes 
falcate, smooth, from three to five-seeded. 
_ A native of the sandy lands near the shores of Coromandel, 
Flowering time the close of the rains, and cool season. 
Shrubby, with numerous, dichotomous, round, pretiy 
smooth, coloured, ascending branches; the genera) height of 
full grown plants in the Botanic garden is about two feet. 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets from tive to eight or nine pairs, and 
a terminal one, opposite, short-petiolate, lanceolar, smooth 
above,a little villous and paler underneath ; the largest about 
an inch Jong, and less than half an inch broad.» Petioles 
channelled, a little villous. Stipules subulate, permanent. 
Racemes lateral, axillary, or terminal, about as long as the 
leaves. Bractes three-fold, ensiform, from three to six-flow- 
ered. Flowers of a deep bright purple, short-pedicelled. 
Legumes diverging, becoming rectilinear, smooth, incurve- 
falcate, three, four, or five-seeded, and contracted on the em: 
between them. 
8. G. tinctoria, Witla.’ iii, 1248, 
Shrubby, ramous, villous.” pistes from thirteen. ie , 
