112 L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) [TepJirosia. 



jugate (reduced to one in T. Grahami, Wall. Cat. 5652), oblong, obtuse, sub- 

 coriaceous, the end one much larger than the others, 2-3 in. long. -1 in. broad, 

 green, 'glabrous 'above, clothed with persistent white silky pubescence beneath, 

 the nerves prominent; stipules lanceolate, ascending. Peduncles often exceeding 

 the leaves ; racemes closely 3-12-flowered ; flowers casually also in the axils of 

 the leaves; pedicels very short. Calyx tin., densely silky ; teeth long, setaceous. 

 Corolla | in., pale red, silky. Pod slightly recurved, 2-2 in. long, 10-12-seeded, 

 glabrescent. Style flattened, bearded throughout. 



VAR. 1. pulchcrrima ; leaflets large (end one 3 in. long) coriaceous often solitary, 

 veins below very prominent, bracts ovate-lanceolate, flowers few close, pod per- 

 sistently velvety. T. pulcherrima, Wight MSS. Nilghiris and Ceylon. 



VAK. 2. coccinea ; leaflets 1-5 f-1 in. broad cuneately narrowed in the lower 

 half, branches closely argenteo-canescent, bracts linear minute, racemes elongated. 

 T. coccinea, Wall. Cat. 5633 ; PL As. Ear. t. 60. Birma, Wallich. 



VAR. 3. intermedia, W. $ A. ; branches velvety, leaflets much smaller 9-13 

 \- \ in. broad the end one not much larger than the others, the veins less pro- 

 minent ; racemes not so close as in the type. T. intermedia, Grrah. in Wall. 

 Cat. 5632. Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



5. T. spinosa, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 254 ; shrubby, branches closely 

 ar<reuteo-can'scent, stipules spiny, flowers 1-2 all in the axils of the leaves. 

 Wall Cat. 5651. W. 8r A. Prodr. 214 (excl. si/n.) ; Wight Ic. t, 372. Galega 



spinosa, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 383. 



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



A low shrub, with very numerous terete flexuose ascending branches. Spines 

 spreading, |- in. Leaves short-petioled, ^-1 in. long; leaflets 5-7, narrow- 

 oblanceolate, rigidly subcoriaceous, truncate, often emarginate, glabrous above, 

 glaucous, nearly glabrous below. Flowers all axillary ; 1-2 rarely 3 from the nodes ; 

 pedicels --^ in. Calyx ^ in., teeth linear-acuminate, as long as the tube. Corolla 

 red, twice "the calyx. Pod f-1 in., nearly glabrescent, recurved, 5-6-seeded. Style 

 much incurved, flattened, glabrous. 



6. T. senticosa, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 254; shrubby, branches closely 

 argenteo-canescent, stipules not spiny, flowers 1-2 all in the axils of the 

 leaves. W. $ A. Prodr. 211 ; Wight Ic. t. 370; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 61. 

 Galega senticosa, Linn. Amain, iii. 19. G. pentaphylla, Roxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 384. 

 'T. pentaphylla, Grali. in Wall. Cat. 5650. T. elegans, Wall. Cat. 5634. * 



Plains of the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; BIRMA, Wallich. 



A low shrub, with copious erecto-patent terete slender branches ; petiole very 

 short ; stipules minute, ascending, setaceous ; leaflets usually 5, rarely 3, nar- 

 row-oblanceolate, 1-1 r t in. long, truncate or emarginate, green, glabrous above, 

 thinly silky beneath, cuneately narrowed in the lower half. Flowers usually geminate ; 

 pedicels in., argenteous.' Calyx in. ; teeth linear, as long as the tube. Corolla 

 more than twice the calyx, argenteous. Pod l|2 in. long, 6-8- seeded, much 

 recurved, persistently thinly canescent. 



7. T. purpurea, Pers.; DC. Prodr. ii. 251' ; herbaceous, steins glabrescent 

 or finely downy, racemes elongated, pod glabrescent or finely downy slightly 

 recurved 6-10-'seeded. Wall Cat. 5638 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 213 ; Dalz. $ Gib's. 

 Bomb. Fl. 61. T. leptostachya, DC. loc. cit. Galega purpurea, Linn. ; Roxb. 

 FL Ind. iii. 386. G. laucerefolia, Jtoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 386. G. Oolonila and 

 sericea, Ham. in Linn. Trans, xiii. 544-5. G. tinctoria, Lnmk. ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 386, non L. T. stricta, Grali. in Wall. Cat. 5639. T. Taylorii, 

 Grali. in, Watt. Cat. 5637. T. Wallicbji, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5640. T. lobata, 

 -Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5646. T. tinctoria, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5643. T. gale- 



