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, for which it can be mistaken. 

 Seeds generally about fifteen, separated by very finn dis- 

 tinct partitions, and attached by convolute slender cords 

 to the upper margin. 



19. S. prostrata. R. 



Perennial, prostrate. Leaflets minute, twenty-paired, 

 daggered. Pec?Mwc/es 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. 



Root woody, perennial. Stems perennial, numerous, 

 spreading every way and pressing close upon the ground, 

 round, a little hairy, about a foot long. Leaves pinnsite, al- 

 ternate, bifarious. Leaflets from twelve to twenty- six pair, 

 minute, linear, acute, the lower margin ciliate. Glands, 

 a long pedicelled, peltate one between the lower pair of 

 leaflets. Stipules serailanced, 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. S. dimidiata. Buck. 



Annual, slender, erect. Leaflets thirty pair, with aflat 

 gland between the lowermost. Peduncles above the axils 

 from two to four-flowered- Stamens four, or five, all fer- 



