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15. PuLCHELLA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 382.— A shrub ; branches 

 angled; leaves pinnated ; leaflets 8 to 10 pair, obovate or broads 

 elliptic, emarginate mucronate ; racemes the length of the leaves, 

 sessile, many-flowered ; flowers large, bluish -purple, showy ; 

 legumes slightly deflexed, cylindrical, thick, straight, sharp-pointed, 

 10 to 12-seeded. An Alpine species ; all along the highest Ghauts. 

 Syn. I purpurascens, Roxb. loc. cit. 383 ; I cassioides, Rottl. DC. 

 Prod. 2, 225. Native name " Chimnatee." Ind. Gibsonii, Graham's 

 .Catalogue. 



1 6. Tbita, Linn. Suppl. 335. — Herbaceous or sufFruticose, erect, 

 rigid, more or less hairy ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate, ; leaflets oval 

 or oblong, mucronate ; racemes sessile, the length of the leaves i 

 legumes deflexed or horizontal, 4-angled, straight rigid, sharp- 

 pointed ; seeds 6 to 10, 4-sided. Very common. DC. /Votf. 2, 232; 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 371 ; Syn. I cinerea, Willd. sp. 1225 ; Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. iii, 372; I canescens. Lam. Enc. Meth. iii, 251. 



17. Kleinii, W. and A. Prod. 204. — H erbaceous procumbent ; 

 leaves pinnated ; leaflets alternate, about 9, obovate oblong, 

 glaucous and strigose beneath ; racemes peduncled, equal to the 

 leaves, many-flowered ; flowers small ; legumes crowded, imbricately 

 reflexed, straight linear, 4-angled, with a subulate rigid straight 

 point; seeds 8 to 10, 4-sided. At Belgaum. 



18. HiESUTA, Linn. sp. PI 1862. — Erect-branched, hairy all 

 over except the leaves ; leaves pinnated ; leaflets opposite, 2 to 5 

 pair, oblong obovate, large ; racemes dense peduncled, longer than 

 the leaves ; legumes reflexed, straight, 4-angled, mucronate, hairy; 

 4 to 6-seeded. A large coarse species ; a common weed in the 

 South Concan. DC. Prod. 2, 228 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 376 ; Rheede 

 Mai. ix, t. 30. 



4. PSORALEA, Linn. 



1. CouYLiFOLiA, Linn. sp. 1075. — Annual, erect, 3 to 4 feet 

 high ; leaves simple, rarely ternate, roundish ovate repand-toothed ; 

 racemes dense, spicate, on long axillary solitary peduncles; 

 legume very short, indehiscent, 1-seeded. A common plant in 

 waste places. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii 387 ; Syn. Tufolium unifolum, 

 Forsk. Native name " Bawurcheen." 



5. TEPHROSIA, Pers. - 



1. SuBERosA, DC. Prod. 2, 249.— A small tree; ends of the 

 branches and young shoots tomentose ; leaves pinnated ; leaflets 6 

 to 10 pair, elliptic-oblong, obtuse mucronulate, underside clothed 

 with silky pubescence ; racemes terminal, rose-coloured ; legume 

 long, straight, silky, contracted between the seeds, linear-com- 



