'92 L. LEGUMIXOS-E. (J. G. Baker.) [Cyamopsis. 



16. CTTABIOPSZS, DC. 



Erect annuals, with 3-foliolate leaves, laterally attached hairs and small pur- 

 plish flowers in axillary racemes. Ccr/y^i-tube oblique ; teeth unequal, the lowest 

 'elongated, setaceous. Petals caducous : standard and wings narrow ; keel obtuse, 

 slightly incurved. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary 

 sessile, linear, 6-8-ovuled ; style short, filiform, much incurved, stigma capitate. 

 Pod linear, straight, subtetragonous, 2-valved, septate between the seeds. 

 DISTRIB. Species 2, the other Arabian and trop. African. 



1. C. psoralioides, DC. Prodr. ii. 216; Wall Cat. 5920; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 197; Wight Ic. t. 248. Psoralea tetragonoloba, Linn.Mant. 104. Lupinus 

 trifoliatus, Cav. Ic. t. 59. Dolichos psoraloides, Lamk. Diet. ii. 300. D. fabee- 

 formis, LHerit. ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 316. 



Plains from the HIMALAYA to the WESTERN PENINSULA, but often, perhaps always, 

 -cultivated. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



A robust, erect annual, 2-3 ft. high, clothed with adpressed grey hairs attached by 

 the middle, as in Indigofera. Stipules long, Jinear-setaceous ; leaves petioled, 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets ovate, acute, inci so-dentate, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 6-30 in copious close short- 

 peduncled axillary racemes ; bracts setaceous, protruded. Calyx - 1 in. Corolla 

 scarcely exserced. Pod thick, fleshy, straight, 1^2 in. long. 



17. XXroZGOFBXlA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs clothed more or less densely with adpressed hairs laterally 

 attached, often silvery-canescent. Flowers in copious axillary racemes. Calyx 

 minute, campanulate ; teeth 5, subequal or the lowest longest. Corolla caducous ; 

 standard obovate ; keel straight, not rostrate, spurred on each side near the base. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary sessile, usually niany- 

 ovuled ; style short incurved, stigma capitate usually penicillate. Pod usually 

 linear-cylindrical, rarely oblong or globose, turgid, rarely flattish, in one section 

 crescent-shaped, densely muricated. DISTRIB. Species 250-300, spread through 

 .all tropical regions and also abundant at the Cape. 



SUBGEN. 1. Acanthonotus, Benth. Pod recurved, sickle-shaped, 1- 

 seeded, muricated along the ventral suture. 



1. I. echinata, Willd.; DC. Prodr. ii. 222; Roxb. Hort. Seng. 98; Fl. 

 2nd. iii. 370 ; Wall. Cat. 5456 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 198 ; Wight Ic. t. 316 ; Dalz. 

 fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 57. Hedysaruni nummularifolium, Linn. Sp. PL 1051 (excl. 

 syn.}. H. rotundifolium, Vahl Symb. ii. 81. H. erinaceum, Poir. Diet. Suppl. 

 vi. 393. Onobrychis rotundifolia, Desv. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 348. O. cuneifolia, DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 348. Indigofera prostrata, Roxb. MSS. 



Plains of CEYLON and the WESTERN PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Guinea. 



A diffuse much-branched annual with stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves simple, nearly 

 sessile, broad-obovate, obtuse, mucronate, glabrescent, membranous, ^ | in. long ; sti- 

 pules linear-setaceous. Racemes copious, short-peduncled, 6-10-flowered. Calyx -^ 

 in. ; teeth setaceous, very long. Corolla pinkish, in. Pod under in. long, laterally 

 flattened, beaked with the persistent style. 



STJBGEN. 2. Spliseridiopliora, Desv. Pod minute, unarmed, globose, 

 J -seeded. 



2. I. linifolia, Retz-, DC. Prodr. ii. 222; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 370; Cor. 

 PL t. 100; Wall Cat. 5489; W. $ A. Prodr. 198; Wtffht Ic. t. 313; Dak. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. FL 58 ; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 188. Sphaeridiophora linifolium, Desv. 



.Journ. Bot. iii. 125, t. 6, lig. 35. S. abyssinicuni, Jaub. et Spach. III. t. 494. 



