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minated by a straight short mucro, thickened on the sutures, many« 
celled. 
In the Warree country, flowering in the cold season. 
GENUS XIX. PSEUDARTHRIA. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Pseudos, false, and Arthron, a joint, alluding to 
the jointed pedicels which easily break off. 
Gen. Cuar. Diffuse or erect, perennial plants : calyx obscurely 
_2-lipped to about the middle, upper lip bifid, lower 3-partite, the 
middle segment the longest, corolla papilionaceous ;, petals nearly 
equal: vexillum roundish: style filiform, short: stigma capitate : 
legume 1-celled, covered with hooked hairs, flat linear, roundish at 
the apex, with a short point about its middle: seeds alternate, 
somewhat kidney-shaped. 
(1) P. viscrpa. (W. & A) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 209. 
Syn. Hedysarum viscidum, Linn. Roxb. fl. Ind. IIT. p. 856. 
—Desmodium viscidum, Dec. prod. II. p. 336.—Rhynchosia vise 
cida, Dec. J. c. p. 887.—Glycine viscida, Willd. 
Engrav. Burm. Zey]. t. 84. f. 1.—Wight’s Icon. t. 286. 
Spec. Cuar. Diffuse, prostrate: leaves pinnately trifoliolate; 
lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, terminal one, rhomboid-ovate, pu- 
bescent above, when old villous underneath: racemes filiform, 
elongated: legumes 3—4-seeded: flowers purple, in threes from 
each bract, on longish pedicels, jointed close under the calyx. 
Travancore. Dindigul. Flowering nearly all the year. 
GENUS XX. TEPHROSIA. 
Diadeiphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Tephros, ash-coloured, alluding to the colour of 
the bark and foliage of some of the species. 
Gzy. Cuan. Shrubs or herbaceous plants: leaves unequally 
pinnated, sometimes reduced to a single leaflet: racemes terminal, 
axillary or leaf-opposed: calyx 5-toothed or cleft, without brac- 
teoles: vexillum large, roundish, usually silky or pubescent out- 
side, spreading or reflexed: keel cohering with the wings: stamens 
variously united, the upper filament sometimes half united with the 
others: style filiform: legume generally sessile and flat, linear, 
many-seeded ; seeds compressed. 
