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361. C. TerNatea. w. & a. 6tl, Rox. Flora, 3. p. 321. Rheed. Mal. 
8.t. 33. Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 31. Bot, Mag. ¢. 1542. Ainslie. Mat. Ind. 2. p. 
139. 
A shrubby twining plant; in flower almost all the year round: there are 
varieties with blue aud white flowers.—In hedges and Jungles every where.— 
in gardens;—of easy growth and well adapted for covering trellis work.—The 
flowers are used in Amboina to tinge boiled rice a coerulean colour. 
(Rumphius.) 
352. C. ANNUA. G. 
Herbaceous, annual species.—common on Malabar hill &c. during the rains. 
353. C. VAUPELLII. G. 
A suffruticose, erect growing, much branched species: in Mr. Vaupell’s 
garden, at Bandora. 
354. C. BRASILIANA. Dc. prod. 2. p. 234,—Perennial, scandent, with large 
white or blue flowers. intd, by N. : 
184. PUERARIA. pe. Diadelphia Decandria. 
Puerari.—a professor at Copenhagen. E 
355. P. TuBerosa. w. & a. 642. Hedysarum tuberosum. Rox. Flora. 3.p. 363. 
A twining shrub, with woody stems, running over high trees; flowers 
in long simple or branched racemes; of a beautiful bright blue: appear in 
March and April.—Roxburgh says, cataplasms are made of the large tuberous 
roots, and used by the natives to reduce swellings in the joints. 
On Malabar hill near Walkeshwar village.—in hedges about Matoonga. 
~ Ithas the habit of a Desmodium and should probably be referred to that 
genus. 
185. TEPHROSIA. Pers. Diadelphia Decandria. 
Tephros—ash coloured; in aliusion to the colour of the bark and foliage 
of some of the species—Lam. t. 606: Gaert. f. 145. 
356. T: SuBerosa. w, & A. 652. Robiaia suberosa. Rox. Flora. 3. De 327: 
Soopee or Sooptee.—a shrub with corky, ash coloured bark, and very beautiful 
rose coloured flowers, in terminal racemes.—In gardens Bombay: grows abund- 
antly on the rocky hills tothe eastward of Belgaum. (Mr. Law.) The seeds are 
used to poison fish. Itgrows abundantly in the Wasua Ghaut.(Dr, Gibson.) 
357. T. CANDIDA. W. & A. 653. Robinia candidy, Rox. Flora. 3. p. 327. 
A shrub.—Dapooree, intd. from Bengal. (Dr. Lush.) 
358, T. Incana? w, & a. 659.—A shrubby diffuse plant.—in Guzerat; 
associated with the next species, but by no means so common. (Mr. Law.) 
359. T. Purpurea. w. & a. 663. Rheed. Mal. 1. ¢.55. Burm. Zey. ¢. 
32. Anslie. Mat. Ind. 2. p. 49. 
Galega purpurea and lancaefolia. Rox. Flora.%. p. 386. 4 
Wild Indigo;—a shrubby branched plant appearing with the rains and 
flowering towards the close of them, when it dies away.—common both in 
the Concan and Deccan, ard particularly abundant about Deesa. (Dr. 
Brown in Bombay Med. Trans. |. p. 202°) 
This plant, but particularly the Cassia occidentalis, when in progress towards 
decay, emita heavy sickening smell. 
186. SESBANTA. Pers. Diadelphia Decandria. 
Sesban—the Arabic name, 
360. S. Agcyptiaca. w. & a. 667. Aeschynomene sesban. Rox. Flora. 3. 
p. 382. Rheed. Mal. 6. ¢. 27. Asiat. Res, 4. p. 297. 
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