314 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Psoralea. 



with the rest; anthers small, uniform or slightly dimorphous, 

 Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 1-ovuled; style filiform or dilated 

 at base ; stigma terminal. Pod ovoid or oblong, 1-seeded, inde- 

 hiscent, the pericarp usually adherent to the seed. 



PSORALEA CORYLIFOLIA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 103 ; "W. & A. 198. 

 Deccan and Carnatic, in most Districts, a weed of roadsides 

 and waste places. 



An erect annual, 1-3 ft. high, with blue flowers in dense long- 

 peduncled heads and ovoid pitted pods. Leaves unifoliolate, 

 broadly elliptic, dentate, petioled, covered with large black 

 glands and a few white hairs. The seeds are used medicinally. 

 Yern. Hind. Babachi ; Tel. Bapunga ; Tarn. Karporgam. 



A South African shrub, Psoralea pinnata, Linn., has estab- 

 lished itself about Ootacamund. It has blue flowers and very 

 narrow leaflets. 



1C: Mundulea, DC. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually silky-pubescent. Leaves impari- 

 pinnate, the leaflets reticulate and peiminerved ; stipules small. 

 Flowers in terminal racemes, the pedicels fascicled; bracts small; 

 bracteoles 0. Calyx campanulate, lobes short, the two upper 

 often subconnate. Corolla much exserted ; standard large, with 

 2 calluses at the base above the claw ; wings falcate-oblong, long- 

 clawed ; keel petals incurved, abtuse at apex, clawed at base. 

 Stamens monadelphous, the vexillary filament free only at base, 

 alternate filaments slightly dilated above; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile ; ovules many ; style incurved, glabrous ; stigma 

 capitate. Pod large, linear, flat, subindehiscent, the sutures 

 thickened. Seeds reiiiform, estrophiolate. 



MUNDULEA SUBEROSA, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 110. Tephrosia sub- 

 erosa, DC.; W. & A. 210; Wt. 111. t. 79. 



Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, from Yizagapatam to Tinne- 

 velly, in dry forests on rocky hills and up to 4,000 ft. 

 A pretty little tree with thick corky yellow bark, close- 

 grained yellow wood resembling satinwood, pink rather 

 large flowers and silky shining leaves. Yern, Tarn. Pii 

 avaram. 



11. Tephrosia, Pers. 



Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 sometimes reduced to one leaflet ; side leaflets opposite, usually 



