386 DIADELPHIA DECANDUIA. Guk'f/a. 



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 in blossom most part of the year. 



7. G. lanceosfolia. Koxb. 



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, dicliotomous, round, pretty 

 smooth, coloured, ascending branches; the general height of 

 full grown plants in the Botanic garden is about two feet. 

 Leaves pinnate ; leaflets from five 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 long", 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. Floicers of a deep bright purple, short-pedicelled. 

 Legumes diverging, becoming rectilinear, smooth, incurve- 

 falcate, three, four, or five-seeded, and contracted on the side 

 between them. 



8. G. tinctoria. Willd. iii. 1248. 



Shrubby, ramous, villous. Leaflets from thirteen to 



