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pressed ; seeds 6 to 8, reniform. Rocky hills eastward of Belgaum. 

 Wasera Ghaut, Dr. Gibson ; seeds used to poison fish. Native 

 name " Sooptee." Syn. T sericea, DC. loc. cit.; Cylisu sericens, 

 Willd. sp. 1121; Robinia suberosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 327; R 

 sennoides, Roxb. loc. cit. 328. 



2. SENTICOSA, Pers. Syn. ii, 330. Shrubby, diffuse ; leaves 

 pinnated ; leaflets 1 to 3 pair, obcordate, underside whitish, with a 

 fine pubescence ; flowers in pairs, axillary, towards the extremities of 

 the branches nearly sessile ; legumes compressed, slightly curved 

 at the point, 3 inches long. On hills in the Concan; common. 

 DC. Prod. 2, 254; Syn. Galega senticosa, Linn. Amcen. iii, 19. 



3. PURPUREA, Pers. Syn. ii, 329. A weed, shrubby erect, much- 

 branched ; leaves pinnated ; leaflets cuneate oblong ; racemes leaf- 

 opposed, peduncled, longer than the leaves ; legumes slightly com- 

 pressed, spreading, linear-falcate, obtuse, with a short point. DC. 

 Prod. 2, 251. Common. Syn. T lancsefolia, Link. Enum. ii, 252 ; 

 Galega purpurea, Linn. sp. 1063 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 386 ; Galega 

 lancaefolia, Roxb. loc. cit. 386 ; G colonila and sericea, Ham. in 

 Linn. Trans, xiii, 545. 



4. TENUIS, Wall, list 5970. Annual, diffuse ; stems filiform 

 strigose, ascending; leaves simple linear or narrow elliptic mucronate, 

 3-nerved ; peduncles axillary, solitary or twin, shorter than the 

 leaf, 1 -flowered ; corolla with long claws to the petals ; legumes com- 

 pressed, linear straight, margins thickened, valves cohering between 

 the seeds, 7 to 8-seeded. The Concans ; flowers in August. Syn. 

 Macronyx strigosus, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 35. 



II. LOTE.E. 

 1. WISTERIA, Nutt. 



1. RACEMOSA, Dalz. Mss. A large climbing shrub ; leaves 

 alternate, unequally pinnate ; leaflets 6 to 8 pair, oval acute, entire, 

 smooth, 2 inches long, 1 broad; racemes axillary, erect, many-flower- 

 ed ; flowers large, rose-coloured ; legumes straight, pendulous, very 

 protuberant at the seeds, and flatly compressed between them ; 

 seeds 5 to 6, oblong, white. Near Belgaum. Syn. Robinia 

 racemosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 329; Tephrosia racemosa, W. and A. 

 Prod. 210. 



2. W PALLIDA, Dalz. Mss. A large climbing shrub ; leaflets 

 about 5 pair and an odd one, ovate or ovate-oblong acute, with 

 waved margins ; stipules subulate ; racemes axillary, solitary, long, 

 slender, from the axils of the uppermost young undeveloped leaves; 

 flowers small, pale-yellow, crowded; legumes straight, linear 

 narrow, about 5 inches long and half inch broad, very protuberant 

 at the seeds, compressed flat all around and between them ; seeds 



