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era.) 
“Indian species); stipules — stem-clasping, but hardly adnate 
petiole; stipels 0. Flowers capitate, spicate, subracemose, or 
-fascicled, rarely solitary, in i axils of reduced floral leaves; 
bracts membranous often 2-3 flowers to each; bracteoles 0. Sepals 
standard ovate or orbicular, narrowed to a claw, sometimes 
auriculate at base; wings oblong, faleate; keel incurved, obtuse, 
its petals only slightly connate. Stamens 10; vexillary filament 
free or connate with the rest; anthers uniform or alternately 
attached at higher and lower levels. Ovary sessile or shortly 
-stipitate, l-ovuled; style filiform or dilated below, incurved 
above; stigma terminal, small. Fruit an ovate, indehiscent 
lomentum. Seed often adnate to pericarp 5 ; strophiole 0. 
627. PsoraLea coryuirousa Linn. ; F, I, iii, 3875 F. B. I, ii. 103; 
E. D. P. 1852. 
In all the provinces. 
An erect annual, 1-3 feet high. Hind. Babachi; Beng. 
Barachi, hakuchi; Uriya Bakuchi 
73. Cyamopsis DC. 
Erect herbs, beset with laterally attached hairs; leaves pin- 
nately 8-foliolate (in the Indian species); leaflets toothed ; 
stipules small, setaceous; stipels 0. Flowers in axillary racemes ; 
pedicels short, solitary; bracts caducous ; bracteoles rg Sepals 5, 
connate in an oblique tube; lowest tooth longest, setaceous. 
Petals caducous; standard obovate, sessile; wings oblong, not - 
adnate to the erect, obtuse inappendiculate keel. Stamens 10, all 
connate in a tube ; anthers uniform, connective apiculate. Ovary 
i 
4 
pane 
capitate. Fruit a linear, suberect pod, subquadrangular, acuminate, 
septate within. Seeds quadrate, compressed ; strophiole 0. 
628. Cyamopsts psoratrorpEs DC.; F. B. I. ii. 92; E. D. ©. 2514. 
Dolichos fabeformis F., I. iii. 316. 
An annual crop. 
A robust erect plant, 2-3 feet high. Hind. Guar ; 
Santal. Buru raher. 
274. Indigofera Linn. 
Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs, with adpressed, laterally attached 
“alts, occasionally with basifixed hairs intermingl led ; am odd- 
