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.'^A tall tree, with thin grey bark, the prickles minute, conical, usually hlack. Pe- 

 tioles 4-6 in., mostly unarmed; leaflets membranous, subconcolorous, glabrous, the 

 end one round-cuspidate, 4-6 in. long and broad, truncate or broad-rhomboidal at the 

 base. BaceTTies dense, j ft. long, on spreading woody peduncles; pedicels J-J in., 

 downy. ^ Calyx 1-1 J in. long, with a very oblique mouth from the first, subglab- 

 xous, minutely 5-toothed at the very tip. Standard 2-2^ in. long, the blade 1 in. 

 broad ) wings and keel subequal, not more than half as long as the calyx. Tod ^-1 ft. 



Jong, distinctly torulose.— E. picta, Linn. {Eumpk, Amboin. t. 77) appears to be a 

 mere form of this, -wii-b -p-nriAfrnf-o^ ifimroc 



2. E. stricta, Roxh, Hort. Beng. 53 ; Fl. 1 

 the tip, keel-petals connate, pod 2-3-seeded. W. 

 Gils. Bomb. Flora, 70 ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. t 175. M 

 Lmruea^ xxiii. 740. 



Western Peninsitxa, common. 



A large tree. Prickles whitish, rnrftlv extendinf? t 



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Leaflets same 



SxTBGEx. 2. Micropteryx, Walp, Calyx campanulate, more or less 

 ^tinctly S-lipped, but not splitting down to the base. Fod turgid and seed- 

 oeanng through its whole length. 



2.^- E- resupinata, Roxh. Cor. PL t. 220; Hort Beng. 53; FL ImL iii. 

 jyi] herbaceous, leaflets as broad as loner, limb of standard oblono:. DC. Prodr. 



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Upper Ga^getic plain ; Nawal Khar, Dr. Brandts, Oudh, Dr. Ste^mrt. ■ 

 ^accTTies direct from the rootstock, under a foot higli, dense, appearing before the 

 jeaves. Petioles and peduncles prickly. Leaflets round-cordate, 2-3 in. long and 

 woau Calyx ^_J in. long, campamilato-bilabiato. Standard 3-4 times the 

 ^^"^ ' ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ l^^S ^^s the standard tinged with red, its petals united ; wings much 

 snorter, greenish. Upper stamen free from low down. 



4. E. ovallfolla, JRoxb. Hort. Beng. 53 ; Fl Lid. iii. 254 ; arborescent. 



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Malacca. — Distrib, Java, 



^ i perhaps not distinct from American E. glanca, vvuia. 



^ranches pale grey. Prickles usually black, not extending to the petiole. _ Leaflets 



from^flf^^^^^^' Sl^'^ucous, the end one orate or obovate-oblong, very different in shape 

 Vn?r. \ ^^ '"^^y ^^"^^"^^ species, often 4 ft. long, obtuse or subacute. 



Calyx ^-i in., 



1^2 .^^^tity, splitting nearly down to the base in two halves. >S'if«?ziZarJ deep scarlet, 



mhpr \^ ^^ ^"' f^marginate; keel petals adherent, 



^^^^er suorter. Pod 6-8-scedcd, ^ ft. long, distinctly torulosc, narrowed nito a short 



half as long as standard ; wing 



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^i^^' suberosa, i?oar&. Hort. Beng, ^; Fl Ind. iii. 253; arborescent, 

 3^ ! • ^ ■'^^^o as broad matted with pubescence beneath^^ Hmbj)f the ^standard 





260«'T^7f ^^"^ »« ^™ad, pod turgid. Wall. Cat. 5959 ; W. 9 ^. ^ /w,. 

 .^.' ^^'^- FL Svlv. 87 : Dais. & Gils. Bomb. Fl. 70, , Micropteryx sulerosa. 



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