Tephposia.] ' LEGUMIJSIOSJS, 345 



lower flowers often fascicled ; pe(£'icels about ^n. long. Calyx ^-^ in., 

 densely silky, tee!:h shorter than the tube. Corolla |-1 in., white or 

 tinged with red, standard densely silky outside. Style flattened, silky. 

 Pod 3-i in., slightly recucyed, clothed with brown silky hairs. 



Dehra Dun. Disteib. : Trop. Himalaya from G-trhwal to Khasia and 

 Assam, up to 5,000 ft. in Sikkim, Bengal, Sylhet, Chittagong, Martaban, 

 Malay Penins. and Islands. Flowers during the rainy season. The 

 leaves and bark are used fur poisoning fish. 



3. T. purpurea, Pers. fifyn.M, 339; W. Sf A. Prod 213; Royle III. 191; 

 D. 4* Q. Bomh.FL 61 ; F. B. I. ii, 112; WattE. D. Galega purpurea, Linn.; 

 Boxh. Fl. Ind.iii, 386. G. lance^folia, B,oxh. I.e. G. tinctoria, .Law-fc.; Boxi. 

 I.e. (not of Linn.J.—Yevn. SarphdnU. 



A copiously branched subereet herbaceous perennial, with slender firm 

 terete glabrescent branches. Leaves 3-6 in. long, short-petioled j 

 stipules subreflesed ; leaflets 13-21, narrowly oblanceolate. about i in. 

 long, green and glabrescent above, glaucous and obscurely silky beneath. 

 Bacemes 3-6 in. long, all leaf-opposed, las, lower flowers fascicled ; 

 pedicels short, hracteoles minute Calyx as long as the pedicels, densely 

 silky ; teeth linear, as long as the tube. Corolla ^-f in., red, thinly 

 silky. Style glabrescent, stigma penicillate. Pod l|-2 in. long, glab- 

 rescent, slightly recurved, 6-8- seeded. 



Common within the area, especially in sandy places. Distrib.; W. Hima- 

 laya up to 4,00U ft., and from Bengaltn Ceylon ; also in the Malay Penins. 

 and in Siam. Flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. The plant is 

 used medicinally. 



4 T. pumila, Pe7's. Syn. ii, 330 ; Prainin Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI, 

 pt. 2, 366. T. diffusa, W. Sf A. Prod. 213 ; Boyle III. 191. Galega diffu- 

 sa, Eoicb. Fi. lud- Hi, 337. T. purpurea var. pumila in F, B. I. ii, 113 ; 

 Watt E. D. 



A small herbaceous perennial, persistently downy. Branches diffuse. 

 Stipules line ir-seticeous. Leaflets 9-11, smaller and more downy than 

 those of the preceding, often cuneate towards the base and retuse at the 

 apex. Corolla and pods also smaller, and the latter much more downy. 

 Common on rocky ground and in sandy waste land. Disteib. Punjab 

 Plain, and throughout the hotter parts of India. 



5, T, villosa, Pers. Syn. ii, 329 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 212 ; F. B. I. ii, 113 . 



Watt E. D. Galega villosa, Linn.; Boxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 385. P. argentea* 

 Pers.; W. Sf A. Prod. 212. » 



A small diffuse shrub. Stems flexuose, hoary with appressed silky pubes 

 scence Leaves nearly sessile, 2-3in. long; stipules linear; leaflet- 

 13-19, greyish-green and glabrescent above, persistently silky beneath, 

 narrow, oblanceolate, often emarginate. Eacemes elongated ; lower 

 flowers in distant fascicles, lowest often in the axils of the leaves ; 

 pedicels very short ; bracts setaceous, plumose. Calyx about i in.. 



