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flowers 20-60 in dense terminal racemes, calyx i in. long with 
lanceolate teeth, bright yellow much exserted corolla, and a cylindrical 
glabrous rather recurved pod with 15-20 seeds. 
* C. vasculosa, Wall. Cat. No. 5427, is said to be a plant of 
Mauritius, but we have it only from the Calcutta G-arden. It is 
shrubby, with stems and foliage densely clothed with short brown 
spreading silky hairs, 3 oblanceolate or oblong leaflets, short petioles, 
minute setaceous stipules, flowers 30-60 in dense terminal racemes 
leafy up to the base, calyx subsessile silky in. long with lanceolate 
teeth, corolla twice the length of the calyx, pod small round sessile 
densely clothed with long dense dark brown silky hairs. 
* C. quinquefolia , Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 131 ; Wight 111. t. 16, a 
native of Tropical Asia, is established in Mauritius on the banks of 
the waterfall at Peduit and in plains round Fort Blanc. It is an erect 
branched annual, 3-4 feet high, with obscurely grey-silky branches and 
foliage, linear stipules, 5 linear leaflets 2-3 in. long, like those of a 
Lupine, flowers in lax terminal racemes with persistent lanceolate 
bracts, calyx naked \ in. long with lanceolate teeth, large veined 
petals, standard f inch broad, and a distinct stalked large oblong 
pod with 30-40 seeds. 
A plant found by Mr. Horne in the Seychelles in several parts of Mahe, is per- 
haps an endemic species near C. zanzibarica, Benth., but we have not yet seen 
either flowers or pod. It is a shrub with virgate branches, shortly pilose when 
young, trifoliolate petioled leaves with obtuse oblanceolate leaflets 1^ in. long, 
flowers in lax peduncled terminal racemes, minute linear bracts, and pedicels 
shorter than the calyx, which is campanulate, glabrous, £ in. deep, with lanceolate 
teeth shorter than the tube. 
# Melilotus parvijlora, Desf. ; DC. Prod. ii. 187 (M. indico , All. ; M. 
officinalis , Bojer, Hort. Maur. 89, non Willd.), of European origin, 
now widely spread as a weed of cultivation, is sometimes found in 
Mauritius. It is a glabrous erect slender annual, fragrant when dried, 
with three oblanceolate obtuse toothed leaflets, the central one stalked, 
copious flowers in long narrow racemes, calyx in. long with deltoid 
teeth, corolla pale yellow twice as long as the calyx, diadelphous 
stamens, uniform anthers, and an oblong one-seeded pod T \ in. long, 
obscurely reticulated. 
# Psoralea corylifolia , Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 218 ; Bot. Mag. t. 665, 
a native of the East Indies, is established in Mauritius on the sea- 
shore round Fort Blanc. It is an erect robust branched thinly pilose 
annual, with branches and leafy parts marked with copious glandular 
dots, large simple petioled membranous toothed ovate leaves, flowers 
in copious dense peduncled axillary racemes, calyx nearly sessile ^ inch 
long with 5 deep lanceolate teeth, yellow little exserted petals, upper 
stamen connate or free, anthers uniform, and a small globose one- 
seeded black glabrous pod. 
2. INDIGOFERA, Linn. 
Calyx tube campanulate; teeth 5, variable in shape, upper often 
