J520 XLVIXl. LKGUMlXOS.t. 



ininuie, subulate. Leaflets 13-21, opposite, ^-^ in. luug, elliptic or 

 oWaneeolatc, rounded and nnicronale at the apex, densely clothed ou 

 both sides with persistent appressed white hairs, base acute ; petiolules 

 of the lateral leaflets -^j^ in. long, those of the terminal ones a little 

 longer, blowers in dense subsessile racemes, shorter than the leaves ; 

 pedicels short. Calyx -^-s; in. long, silvery outside ; teeth triangular, 

 acute. Corolla red, -g-^ in. long; standard broadly ovate, shorily 

 acuminate, hairy on the back ; keel-petals hairy outside. Pods 1- l-^ in. 

 long, straight, cvlindric, mucronate, clothed with appressed white hairs, 

 not deflext^d nor torulose. Seeds 8-12. El, B. 1. v. 2, p. 99; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 59 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 27 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 67. 



A rare plant. Koxkan : Htucks] S. M. Cocnthv : Belganw. Bit chic, WQ '., Datel/ '., 

 Stocks'., Talbot. — Disthib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



27. Indigofera pulchella, lioxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 57 : FJ. Inch 

 v. 3, p. 382. .An erect ramous shrub 4-6 ft. high; branches striate, 

 glabrous or more or less hairy. Leaves 3-6 in. long; petioles -j-l in. 

 long ; stipules very minute, subulate, caducous. Leaflets 13-21, opposite 

 or a few casually alternate, ^-1 by -jVi '"•' fHiptic-obloug, rounded, 

 truncate or emarginate, apiculate, thinly clothed with short grey ap- 

 pressed hairs, base acute ; main nerves prominent on tlie under surface ; 

 jjetiolules of the lateral leaflets j^-^ io., those of the terminal ones 

 J— I in. long. Flowers the largest of the genus, numerous, in moderately 

 close short-peduncled racemes shorter than the leaves ; pedicels short, 

 slender, hairy ; bracts large, boat-shaped, long-cuspidate, exceeding the 

 buds, silky-hairy, caducous. Calyx -jV-g i'^- ^o^'g? appressedly hairy 

 outside; teeth short, triangular. Corolla purple, 4-| in. long ; standard 

 orbicular, as broad as long, glabrous on the back : keel-petals glabrous 

 outside. Pods 1-1 1 in. long, straight, turgid, cylindric, glabrous. Seeds 

 8-12. Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 101 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 60 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 67 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomh Xat. v. 1 1 (1897) p. 421 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 387. /. GUmmn, Grab. Cat. p. 46. — Flowers : 

 Oct.-Jan. Yeek. Baroli ; C/iimnaii. 



Deccax : Mahableshwai-, Cookcl, II. N. Biidwuod, Wvodrow'.; Kartriz liilLs, 

 Kanitkor'.: hills abont Hewra, Graham. S. M. Country: Nagarg:!! near Pharwar, 

 Kanitkar\\ near Hubli, Hohoihackcr, 774!; Belgaiini, Bitrhir, 165! Kanaka: N. 

 Kauara iu moist forests along the gbats, Talbot. — Distrib. Throughout the bills ol' 

 India. 



12. PSORALEN, Linn. 



Herbs or undershrubs punctate with black or pellucid glands. Leaves 

 simple or imparipinnate, stipulate. Inflorescence capitate, spicate, sub- 

 racemose or fasciculate. Calyx-lobes subec)ual, or the lowest the larger, 

 the two upper often connate. I'etals all with distinct cla\As ; keel 

 obtu.so, the tip slightly incurved. Upjier stamen free or more or less 

 connate with the others, the tube often closed at the commencement of 

 flowering; anthers small, uniform or slightly dimorphous. Ovary sessile 

 or shortly stalked ; o\nIe 1 ; style filiform or dilated at the base, curved 

 above ; stigma terminal. Pod ovoid or oblong. 1-seeded, indchiscent, 

 the peri(arp usually adhering to the seed. — Disthiu. Chiefly the Cape 

 and North America : species about 100. 



Leaves simple !• i^- coryUfolia. 



Leaves 3-foli()late -■ P.plicafa. 



