324 XLTIII. LEGUMINOS.i:. 



standard long-clawed, pubescent at the back. Pods 1-1 by ^-^^^ ^"-j 

 tliinly clotlied with appressed hairs. Seeds 6-10. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. Ill ; 

 r»alz! & Gibs. p. Gl ; Aitch. Ph. & Sind PI. p. 42 ; AVoodr. in Jouni. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 422 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, 

 p. 15. 3Iacronyx str'igosus, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 2 (1850) p. 35, 

 — Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 



Tolerably common. Konkan : Sfoc/isl, T)aheU\, Capf. Gehurne], Woodrow. 

 Peccan : Poona, along the railway line near the Bamburda crossing, abundant, 

 Cooke ! S. M. Country : Belgaura hills, liitchie, 134 ! Sind : S(ocks ! ; Jemadar ka 

 Landa near Karachi, SforJcs, ll85l — Disthib. India (Panjab, Birma) ; Laci^adives. 



The twigs are used by natiyes fur cleaning the teeth (Murro//). See Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Tephrosia tinctoria, Pei-s, Syn. PI. v. 2 (1807) p. 329. A 

 perennial undershrub 1^-3 ft. high; stems and branches more or less 

 angled, densely velvety with yellowish-brown pubescence. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, very variable, 1-4 in. long, subsessile ; stipules small, 

 triangular, acuminate, hairy. Leaflets usually 7-13 (sometimes reduced 

 to the terminal one), decreasing in size towards the base of the leaf 

 (the terminal leaflet much larger than the others and varying from 

 1-3 by g-|), elliptic-oblong, usually mucronate, glabrous above, more or 

 less densely silvery-silky beneath ; lateral nerves numerous, slender, 

 conspicuous on the under surface ; petiolules of lateral leaflets -^-q — rV^^-' 

 those of terminal ^-| in. long. Flowers in short erect densely fulvous- 

 silky 3-12-flowered close racemes ; peduncles usually longer than the 

 leaves ; pedicels short, densely silky ; bracts lanceolate, very hairy. 

 Calyx ^ in. long, hairy ; teeth longer than the tube, subulate from 

 a triangular base. Corolla bright pink, about twice as long as the 

 calyx ; standard i in. long, broadly obovate, silky-hairy on the back, 

 the claw cuneate ; keel glabrous. Style flattened, bearded throughout 

 its entire length. Pods 2-2| by -fV~4 ^"•' ^i'l^^i"? flattened, mucronate, 

 slightly curved upwards at the apex, more or less clothed with soft 

 silkj'' hair. Seeds 8-12, distant, g in. long, ellipsoid, compressed, 

 smooth, dark brown. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. Ill; Wight, Icon. t. 388; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 31 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 422 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, part 4, p. 15.— Flowers : Oct. 

 Vekn. JS'il ; GuU. 



Konkan: widely, IVonr/row; near Poladjinr, IVoodrowl Deccan : below ]\Talia- 

 Weshwar, Cooke '. Kanaka: Yellapnr, Tulhoil — Uistrib. India (W. Peninsula); 

 Ceylon. 



A blue dye sinn'lar to Indigo is sometimes extracted from this plant in Mysore. 

 Sec Walt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. and v. 4, pp. 410, 412, 4;)1. 



Var. intermedia. Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. T. v. 2, p. 112. Branches 

 velvety. Leaflets 9-115, much smaller than the type, :|— ] in. broad, the 

 terminal h^'iflets about etjualling the lateral ones in size ; nerves less 

 ])rominent. Kacemes not so close as in the type. Trim. Fl, Ceyl, v. 2, 

 p, 31. T, intermedia (sp.), Grab, in Wall, Cat. 5G32. 

 Konkan : Jliradongor near Pen, Sfacki^] 



3. Tephrosia coccinea. Wall. Cat. (1828) 5G33. An erect 

 branched shrub 2-3 ft. high ; branches terete, flexuons, closely argenteo- 

 canescent with soft appressed hairs. Leaves somewhat membranous, 

 liearly sessile, 2-3 in. long ; stipules scarious, lanceolate, acute, nerved, 



