"92 L. LEGUMiNOSJi. (J. G. Baker.) ICyamopsis. 



16. CYAZtXOFSXS, DC. 



Erect animals, -with 3-foliolate leaves, laterally attached hairs and small pur- 

 plish flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx-tuhe oblique ; teeth unequal, the lowest 

 -elongated, setaceous. Petals caducous : standard and wings narrow ; keel ohtuse, 

 slightly incurved. Stamens monadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary 

 sessile, linear, 6-8-ovuled ; style short, filiform, much incurved, stigma capitate. 

 Fod linear, straight, subtetragonous, 2-valved, septate between the seeds. — 

 DisiEiB. Species 2, the other Arabian and trop. African. 



1. C. psoralioides, DC. Prodr. ii. 216; Wall. Cat. 5920; W. 8,- A. 

 Prodr.l&I; Wiffht Jc. t. 24S. Psoralea tetragonoloba, Xinji. iHfarrai. 104. Lupinus 

 trifoliatus, Cav. Ic. t. 59. Dolichos psoraloides, Lamh. Diet. ii. 300. D. fabse- 

 formis, L'Eerit. ; Itoxh. Fl. Ind. iii? 316. 



Plains from the Himalaya to the Wbsteen Peninsula, but often, perhaps always, 



■ cultivated. — Disteib. Afghanistan. 



A robust, erect annual, 2-3 ft. high, clothed with adpressed grey hairs attached by 

 - the middle, as in Indigofera. Stipules long, linear-setaceous ; leaves petioled, 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets ovate, acute, inciso-dentate, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 6-30 in copious close short- 

 peduncled axillary racemes ; bracts setaceous, protruded. Calyx ^| in. Corolla 

 scarcely exserced. Fod thick, fleshy, straight, l|-2 in. long. 



17. HfDZGOFERA., Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs clothed more or less densely with adpressed hairs laterally 

 . attached, often sUvery-canescent. Flowers in copious axillary racemes. Calyx 

 minute, campanulate ; teeth 5, snbequal or the lowest longest. Corolla caducous ; 

 standard obovate ; keel straight, not rostrate, spurred on each side near the base. 

 8tamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Ovary sessile, usually many- 

 ovuled; style short incurved, stigma capitate usually penieillate. Fod usually 

 linear-cylindrical, rarely oblong or globose, turgid, rarely flattish, in one section 



■ crescent-shaped, densely muricated. — Disteib. Species 250-300, spread through 

 all tropical regions and also abundant at the Oape. 



Stjbsen. 1. Acanthonotus, Benth. Pod recurved, sickle-shaped, 1- 

 seeded, muricated along the ventral sutm-e. 



1. 1. ecbinata, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 222 ; Roxb. Soi-t. Beru/. 98; Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 370 ; Wall. Cat. 5456 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 198 ; Wiff/it Ic. t. 316 ; Dak. 

 Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 67. Hedysarum nummularifoliiun, Linn. Sp. PI. 1051 (excl. 

 syn.). H. rotundifoUum, Vahl Symb. ii. 81. H. erinaceum. Fair. Diet. Swppl. 

 vi. 393. Onobiychis rotundifolia, Desv. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 348. O. cuneifolia, DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 348. Indigofera prosti-ata, Mo.xb. MSS. 



Plains of Ceylon and the "Western Peninsitla. — ^Distrib. Guinea. 



A diffuse much-branched annual with stems 1-2 ft. long. Leaves simple, nearly 

 sessile, broad-obovate, obtuse, mucronate, glabrescent, membranous, ^ in. long ; sti- 

 pules linear-setaceous. Bacemes copious, short-peduuded, 6-10-flowered. Calyx i 

 in. ; teeth setaceous, very long. Corolla pinkish, i in. Fod under i in. long, lateraUy 

 flattened, beaked with the persistent style. 



SuBGEN. 2. Sphaeridiophora, Desv. Pod minute, imarmed, globose, 

 1 -seeded. j o > 



2. 1. linifolia, Eetz-.DC. Prodr. ii. 222; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 370; Cor. 

 PI. t. 196; Wall. Cat. 6489; W. 8f A. Prodr. 198; WigU Ic. t. 313; Dalz. ^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 58 ; Bmss. Fl. Orient, ii. 188. Sphseridiophora linifolium, Desv. 



. Joum. Bot. HI. 125, t. 6, fig. 35. S. abyssinicmn, Jaub. et Spaoh. lU. t. 494. 



