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ments subulate, several times longer than the tube: vexillum silky: legumes 
deflexed, and faleately curved upwards, obtuse, woolly (fulvous or white), 
6-8-seeded.— Pers. syn. 2. p. 329 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 251; Spr. syst. 3. p. 233 ; 
Wall.! L. n. 5645 ; Wight! cat. n. 892, 894.— Cracca, n. 299, Linn.! fl. Zeyl. 
p. 139.—G. villosa, Linn. sp. p. 1063; Roxb.! ft. Ind. 3. p. 387.—0. hirta, 
Ham. in Linn, Soc. Trans. 13. p. 546.— Pluk. t. 59. f. 6. (from a poor speci- 
men); Burm. zeyl. t. 33. (good). 
Perhaps this and the two last are varieties of one species ; their aspect is 
more different than might be inferred from the characters. 
662. (11) T. diffusa (W. & A.:) shrubby, diffuse, procumbent, slender, 
villous: leaves pinnated ; leaflets 5—10 pair, cuneate, retuse, clothed with 
long adpressed hairs, particularly on the under side: stipules subulate: ra- 
cemes opposite to the leaves, at first very short, afterwards more elongated 
and with a small leaf at each pair of flowers: flowers small: calyx hairy, 
deeply 5-cleft ; segments long, setaceous: vexillum hairy: legumes ascend- 
ing, linear, nearly straight, compressed, more or less hairy —Wight! cat. n. 
895.—T. parviflora, Wight! in Wall.! L. n. 5642.—Galega diffusa, Rob. fl. 
Ind. 3. p. 387.—G. procumbens, Ham. in Linn. soc. trans. 18. p. 547.—G. 
prostrata, Koen.; herb. Madr.!—Pluk. t. 52. f. 1. (good). 
663. (12) T. purpurea (Pers.:) shrubby, somewhat erect, much branched ; 
branches glabrous, pubescent, or slightly villous: leaves pinnated ; leaflets 
cuneate-oblong or lanceolate; upper side usually glabrous, under more or 
less pubescent: stipules subulate from a broad base: racemes leaf-opposed, 
peduneled, often longer than the leaves, many-flowered : flowers on pedicels 
longer than the bracteas, 2-3 together: calyx pubescent ; segments about the 
length of the tube, subulate: corolla about 3 times the length of the calyx 
tube; vexillum silky, bent back from near its base: legumes slightly com- 
pressed, spreading, linear, slightly faleate, obtuse with a short point, at length 
pubescent or glabrous.—z«; leaflets cuneate, retuse.— Wight! cat. n. 897, 898. 
P purpurea, Pers. syn. 2. p. 329 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 251 ; Spr. syst. 3. p, 233; 
Wall.! L. n. 5638.—T. stricta, Graham ! in Wall.! L. n.5639.—T. Wallichii, 
Graham ! in Wall.! L. n. 5640.—T. lobata, Graham! in Wall.! L. n. 5646.— 
T. Taylorii, Graham! in Wall.! L.n.5637.—T. tinctoria, Graham ! in Wall.! 
L. n. 5643.—T. galegioides, Graham ! in Wall.! L. n. 5649.—T. lancesefolia, 
Link. enum, 2. p. 252; DC. l. c.—Craceca, n. 301, Linn.! in herb. Herm.! ; 
fi. Zeyl. p. 140,—Galega purpurea, Linn. sp. p. 1063 ; Roxb, ! ft. Ind, 3. p. 386. 
—G, Colonila, Ham. in Linn. soc. trans. 18. p. 545.—G, sericea, Ham.! l ¢., 
P. 544.—G. tinctoria, Lam. enc. meth. 2. p. 598. (not Linn.); Roxb. l. c.—Burm 
Zeyl. t. 32; Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 55.—8; leaflets oblong-lanceolate.— Wight ! 
cat. n, 899.—T. lanceolata, Graham! in Wail.! L. n. 5636.—Galega lancese- 
folia, a Jt. Ind. 3. p. 386.—G. ccerulea, herb. Rottl. !—— 4, very common. 
—$, Circars. 
The supposed type of this species has the whole plant, especially the stems 
and legumes, almost glabrous ; but we have observed so many transitions be- 
tween that state and those in which the stems might almost, be called villous 
and the legumes decidedly pubescent, and forms as variable as the soil in 
which this species is found, that we have been induced to neglect the pubes- 
cence as a character insufficient to mark a variety. To the more or less pu- 
bescent state, may be referred Wight’s cat. n. 898 (partly), T. a, ale 
Wall. L. n. 5638. (partly), T. stricta, Gr., T. lobata, Gr., T. tinctoria, a 
and to, the more densely pubescent or slightly villous Wight's cat. n. 
(partly), T. Wallichii, Gr., and T. galegioides, Gr. 
664. (13) T. maxima (Pers. :) shrubby, diffuse, procumbent; stems gla- 
brous or sprinkled with spreading hairs: leaves pinnated ; leaflets cuneate, 
emarginate; upper side glabrous, under thinly pubescent: stipules lanceo- 
late-subulate, reflexed: racemes leaf-opposed, elongated, interrupted, bear- 
ing usually a leaf at each of the lower fascicles of flowers : flowers on pedice}s 
