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rounded at the base. Racemes A:-^ in. long iu tho specimens seen; bracts 1-1} in. 

 long, orbicular, not oblique, obtuse, emarginate, thinner in texture than in the other 

 two and dissimilar to the leaves ; umbels 2-3-flo\rered ; pedicels as long as the cal3^x. 

 Calyx I in.; teeth deltoid, two upper connate, lowest lanceolate. Corolla ^-^ in. 

 Jmts of pod 2-3, downy, ^ in. long. \ . 



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 exstipellate leaves, minute bracts and flowers in long racemes. 



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 Boxb. FL Iml iii. 359. Dicerma biarticulatum, DC. Prodr, ii. 339 ; 

 Cat 5738; JV. ^ A. Pi^odr. 230 : Wight Ic. t. 419. 



♦fr Plains of Western Penixstjla., Ceylon and Bikma. — Distrib. Malay isles, N. 

 Atetralia. 



^K^ btems slender, densely ca^spitose, ^-2 ft., glabrous or downy. Stipules scarioso, 

 ..connate, 2-3 cleft; petiole ^-^ in. ; leaflets rigidly coriaceous, pale green, subequal, 

 ■ oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, subglabrous, f-|- in. long, nearly digibite. Racemes 

 peduneled, sublax, ^^^ ft., the lower flowers 2-4 together. Cali/x scariose, sub- 

 glabrous, under ^ in. ; teeth exceeding the tube, the two upper connate. Corolla 2-S 

 ™es the calyx. Joints usually 2, rarely 1, round-oblong, pubescent, ^ in. long, both 

 Biitnres deeply indented. 



f SiTBGE>^. 4. Catenaria, BeiM. Shruhs with woody hrauches, 3-foliolate 

 ^^ves, long racemes^ small bracts and long pendulous many-jointed pods. 



f)7m ^" l^'lJurnifolium, DC. Pi^odr. ii. 337. D. viticimmi; Wall Cat. 



p . -P' cateniferum, Am, in Nov. Act. xviii. 321. Iledysanmi laburnifoliimi, 

 ^oir Eimfc. vi. 422. Catenaria labui-nifolia, Benth. PL Jungh. 220. H. 

 caudatmn, Thu7ib. FL Jap, 28G ? 



■ii ^EXTRAL and East Himalayas, tropical zone; Ktjmaon to Assam and Mishmt, 

 J-eending to 4000 ft. in Sikkim ; (Seylon.— Distrib. Malay isles, China, Japan. 

 *> A shrub, with slender terete branches, soon glabrescent. Stipules free, minute, sc- 

 J^^ous; petiole 1-1| in., thickened, grooved down the face; leaflets oblong-lanceo- 

 5 ' ^^^^» 2-4 in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, shining above, hairy on ribs below. 

 tPPt^T^ ^~^ ^'^' ' pedicels i in.. Anally spreading. Calyx ^ in. ; hairs adpressed; 

 i! V ^a^ceolate, as long as tHe tube, lowest linear. Corolla whitish, \^^ in. Pod 2-3 

 h'-^^^S' J*^iiits 6-8, twice as long as broad, beset with minute hooked spreading 



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Detiol^^^^'* 5. Pteroloma, Desv. Shrub with 1- 

 ^ ^^y ^cemose flowers, minute bracts and acute keel. 



^3 ?• *riquetrum. nc. Prodr. ii. 32G: WalL Cat. 5688; W. ^'. A. 



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Sevchpii ""^l^^^iAON, SiKKiM and Khasia. Chittagoxg, Tavoy, Pegu.— Distkib. 

 /^neUes, China, Philippines. 

 W T"f '^ ^F'1«etrous, soon glabrescent. Leaflet ovate or lanceolate, reaching 6-S in. 

 iJu ;n*.'"gi<ily subcoriaceous, glabrous above, hairy on the ribs below; petiole 

 1-1 ft V'^ a wing on each side, like the leaflet in texture, ^-i in. broad. Racemes 

 nilate r^' ""^^^^'"^^ 'intl terminal ; pedicels ascending, ^-\ in. Calyx ^ in., campa- 



pttSescent^^'^- ^""^^ ^^'^^oxdi, lowest 'linear. Pod 1-2 in. long, 6-8-jointed 



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