114 PAPILIONACE^. 



base and slender branches. Leaves 2 to 4 inches, of 

 eleven to fifteen leaflets. Leaflets distinctly stalked, ^ 

 to I by 5^ to ^ inch, elliptic or oblong-obovate, mucro- 

 nate, dark green on the upper side, covered on both sides 

 with very regularly arranged closely appressed hairs. 

 Racemes I to 5 inches : pedicels very short. Corolla J^ 

 inch : standard petal reflexed. Pod straight I to l% 

 by % inch, sharply pointed, glabrous. Seeds 1/16 inch. 

 Wight Ic. t. 367. 



On the open downs. Pulneys : common above Kodaikanal. 

 Nilgiris. Fyson 2239. Bourne 99, 994. 



Geti. Dist. Himalayas and other Indian hills above 5,000 feet, 

 Kanara and the Ghats to the north of us, Mableshwar, etc. 



PSORALEA. F.B.I. 50 XVIII. 



Shrubs with odd-pinnate gland-dotted leaves and 

 indehiscent one-seeded pods. 



Species about 100 mainly in South Africa and North 

 America. 



Psoralea pinnata ; XVIII 3 ; a shrub of 2 to 6 feet, 

 with numerous branches sloping steeply upwards and 

 close set leaves of about seven narrow, linear, pointed 

 leaflets. Flowers towards the ends of the branches, 

 blue. t. 85. 



Near Ootacamund on the bank of the deep cutting through 

 which the road to Coonoor passes near the old aqueduct, 

 and by the toll-gate. An introduction. Not recorded from 

 anywhere else in South India. The species however has not 

 been determined with any certainty. 



DESMODIUM. F.B.I. 50 L. 



A large tropical genus, characterised by the pods 

 being composed of a number of flat one-seeded segments ; 

 the leaflets three, each with a pair of stipels ; and the 

 flowers in terminal racemes, blue or pink or a mixture 



