80 The Floivering Plants of Western India. 



8. PSORALEA. 



P. corylifolia. A tall straggling plant with ovate or 

 roundish irregularly-toothed leaves, flowers small violet, tipped 

 darker, in close long-stalked spikes. Calyx segments unequal, 

 covered with granules ; pod small included in it. Bdwarchi. 



A common weed in the Deccan, and throughout the plains of 

 India (jff.), especially in cultivated fields. H. calls the flowers yellow. 



9. TEPHROSIA. 



T. purpurea. A much-branched erect half-shrubby plant, 

 with a most offensive smell, more or less hairy, leaflets 6 to 10 

 pair, oblong or obovate, flowers red or purple in long racemes, 

 legume slightly curved, short-pointed, 6 to 10- seeded. Sirpakha, 

 unhdla, utdti. 



A very disagreeable weed, often called bastard indigo, which 

 springs up very freely in the rains in company with Cassia occiden- 

 talis. Everywhere in the tropics (H,). 



* T. incana in Cntch (Palin) H. makes a var. of T. villosa, which 

 has the habit of T. purpurea, but more hairy and pods more densely 

 silky. * T. tennis, a small delicate plant, leaves linear or elliptic, 

 flowers solitary or twin, long-stalked, purple, pod straight. Konkan 

 (D.) and Sind. * T. senticosa, shrubby, leaflets one to three pairs, 

 narrow, flowers few, orange-red, pod with recurved tip. Konkan 

 Hills (D.), Sind. 



10. SESBANIA. 



S. aculeata. A tall weak herb, rather pretty, sometimes half 

 shrubby, stem and petioles with soft prickles, leaflets 20 to 40 

 pair, obtuse, flowers in racemes on slender pedicels, yellow, 

 dotted with purple, calyx nearly entire, pod nearly cylindrical, 

 sharp-pointed. Ran shei'ari, chinchani. 



Common ; known by its wonderfully rapid growth, springing up to 

 8 feet or more in a very few weeks. 



* 8. procumbens, a straggling plant with prickles like the last, 

 leaflets minute, 15 to 20 pair, flowers 2 or 3 together, pod much 

 smaller than the last. Bombay, Cutch, and Kattywar. 



8. Egyptiaca, sTievri,jayanti, Sdndeslar, a tree very like 8. aculeata 

 is with us considered to be a foreigner, but H. has it as wild 

 throughout the plains of India. 



8. grandiflora, dgdsi, hadjd, basna, a tree with very large white 

 flowers, and pointed pods ; cultivated for both. Native of the Indian 

 Archipelago, and of N. Australia. 



To this tribe belong: Milletia, petals Iong-clawe3, pod woody. 

 * M. racemosa (Wisteria r. and W. pallida, D.). A woody climber, 



