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Ougeinia:'] l. leguminos^. (J. .G. Baker.) 161 



- 1. O. dalber^ioides, Benth. PI. Jungh. 216 ; Bedd. Fl. Si/Iv. t. 36 ; Brand. 

 For. Flor. 146, t. 23. Dalbergia ougeinensis, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 63 : Fl. Ind. 

 iU. 220 ; Wall. Cat. 6851 ; Wight Ic. t, 391. 



Z, 



{ Hilly tracts of Nouthern 



An erect tree, 20-40 ft. high, with slender terete grey branches. Leaves distinctly 

 petioled, pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate ; leaflets rigidly coriaceous, glabrous or downy 

 below; end leaflet roundish or obovate, 3-6 in. long, obtuse, entire or obscurely crenate ; 

 nde ones smaller, opposite, oblique. Flowers very copious, in short fascicled racemes, 

 from the nodes of old branches; pedicels ^J— ^ in., filiform, downy or glabrous. Calyx 

 5-1 in.; teeth obtuse. Coro/ia whitish or pale rose. Pod 2-3 in. long; joints 2-3 

 times as long as broad. 



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Shruhs or herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate or simple, stipellate. Floivers sinall^ 

 . red, in copious usually dense racemes. Calyx campanulate or turbinate ; teeth 

 , longer or shorter than the tube, the two upper often subconnate. Corolla ex- 

 *^rted ; standard broad ; wings more or less adhering to the usually obtuse keel, 

 l-pper stamen entirely or partially free, the other 9 united. Ovary sessile or 

 stipitate, few- or many-ovuled ; style incurved, stigma minute capitate. Pod 

 usually composed of several one-seeded indehiscent joints, the faces compressed, 

 never muricated, the upper suture rarely finally splitting open.— Distrib. ISpo- 

 cies about 120; cosmopolitan in the tropics and severalin the Cape and North 



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I _p. CAJAKiFOLiTjM, I)C Prodr. ii. 331 (Hedysarum cajanifoHum, //. 2?. K. Nov. Gen, 

 t- o28. II. mucronatum, Blume ; Walp. Rep. i. 746) a species widely spread in tropical 

 Amerina line \..^^ :„*_„j.-_.,-. :__ r^...^ _ ^jjjj jg included in Wallich's distribution from 



Wall Cat, 5697 A. 



™ica, has been introduced in Ceylon, a 



™ Calcutta Garden as D. leptostachyum, 



^ Urkithopus PEapusiLLus is in Schmidt's Nilghiry collection, no doubt accidentiUy 



introduced. 



r. AeACHIS HYPOO.EA 



dilative. 







- ^.^CBom. 1. Dendrolobium, W. 8f A. Shrubs with woody branches, 3- 

 loiiolate leaves, flowf^r^ in rl^nQA siinrt-.npdnnnled or sessile axillary lunbels. 



»"nute deciduous bracts. 



Fl. 



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«;uatum, Linn. Sp. 1053; Jaco. Hort. Schoen. t. 297, non Roxb. II. arljoreum, 



Zeyl 



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Malacca, Ceylon.— Disthib. Mascarea 



k2 T' -PJi'lippines, Polynesia. ^ . . , , . 



sliehtW? • ^-^ ^^- J^iR^i. ^itli densely do^vny yonns branches. PetMles 1 in. or les3, 

 ^S ^""°^ed ; leaflets sulxjoriaceous, green and glabrous above, thinly grcy-canes- 

 Odm ..""'v'y gliibrescont beneath, the veins not much raised ; end one larger than sale 

 ^^dl^^ n\ °^ broad-oblong, 2-3 in. long. Umbels 6-12-flo^ered ; pedicels short, 

 TolCa til -^^ « '^'^- densely silky ; teeth shorter than or as long as the tube. Co- 



% in. long. 



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indenttr T-u f"""^ ^-2 in. long ; jo'ints 4-5, thict, glabrcscent or silky, ^-f in 

 ^ ^^ ^th sutures. 



2^3 l.^* Cephalotes, Wall. Cat. 5721 ; branches triquetrous, leaflets aculo 



Toi V^ ioii? as broad, joints of pod smaU as long as broad. W. &^\ A, 



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