Psoralea. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 387 
nineteen, obovate-cuneate, emarginate, villous underneath. 
Stipules subulate. Racemes longer than the leaves. Bractes 
tern, more than two-flowered, in succession, Legumes spread- 
ing, slightly falcate, somewhat villous, from four to five- 
seeded, : 
A native of various parts of India, delighting in a, warm 
sandy soil. Flowering time the rains, and cool season. 
- 9. G. diffusa, R. : 
Shrabby, diffuse, scarcely villous. Leaflets from eleven 
to twenty-one, sub-cuneate, emarginate. Stipules subulate. 
Racemes terminal. Legumes diverging from the rachis, 
straight, nearly smooth, from six to seven-seeded. 
A native of the Circars, in flower and ripe seed most part 
of the year, but more frequently from the close of the rains to 
the end of the cool season, 
ASTRAGALUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1208. 
acti two-celled, wise 
<ul hamosus, Willd. iii. 1279. 
Caulescent, procumbent. Legumes dabulates recurved, 
smooth. Leaflets obcordate, villous underneath, 
A native of Persia flowering in the cold season in the Bo- 
tanic garden, 
| PSORALEA. Schreb: gen. N. 1210. 
ef: a rbd, with callous points, the length of the one- 
seeded legume. 
daiBe coryli ifolia. Willd. i iii. 1351. ‘Bure Ind, 172. 4, 49, 
SJ. Bebiacnsre 
Annus, erect, from Boe to four feet high. — Leaves: sim- 
| male, rarely ternate ; ovate-cordate, seallop-toothed,. Stipules 
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