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with produced nodes. Pod 1-2-seeded, 1-2 in. by ^-| in., thin, but firm, rather 

 Teined, persistently brown-silky, with a narrow wing down the upper and a very 

 obscure one down the lower suture. — Western Peninsula. ; Sheyagerry hills, Wight, 

 Pod clothed like that of B. hrevipes, but narrower and leaves much smaller. 



90. EUCKRBSTA, Bennett. 



Shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate, 'Flowers racemed. Calyx deeply campanu- 

 late, very oblique; teeth 5, deltoid, very short. Corolla much exserted; 

 standard narrow ; keel obtuse, its petals scarcely cohering. Stamens diadel- 



f>hous (9, 1), but the filaments fastened ver^^ slightly ; anthers versatile. Ovary 

 ong-stalked, 1-2-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod the size of an 

 olive, turgid, rather fleshy, filled up with the solitary seed. — Distrib. Species 

 2, the other Japanese. 



1. E. Korsfieldii, JSmnett PL Jav. Bar. 148, t. 31 ; £entL in Journ. 

 Linn, Soc. iv., Suppl. 118. Andira Horsfieldii, Lesch. in Ann, Mus, 16, 481j 

 t. 12 ; DC. Prodr, ii. 476. 



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Khasia Mts., Hook. fit. ^ Thomson. — Disthib. Java, Formosa. 



An erect shrub, with glabrous le'Uves and branches. Leaves long-petioled ; leaflets 

 3-5, oblong, acute, h ft. long, subcoriaceous, opposite, subsessile, pale green, the 

 reins immersed. Flowers (not seen in Indian specimens) in 'simple pedunclea 

 racemes ; pedicels geminate, minutely bracteate, shorter than the calyx. Corom 

 pure T\*hite, ^ in. long, twice the length of the calyx. Pod oblong, purplish-black, 

 ^— § in. long. 



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91. DAZ.KOVSXEA, Grah. 



A climbing shrub. Leaves 1-foliolate, Flowers in axillary corymbs, Ca**/*^ 

 campanulate; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla exserted ; petals equal in length; 

 standard broad ; keel obtuse. Stamens free ; anthers imiform, oolong, versatile. 

 Ovary subsessile, few-ovuled; style filiform^ stigma capitate. . Porf oblong, 

 subcompressed, dehiscent, rigidly coriaceous, continuous within, 1-3-seeded.— -^ 

 single species, with a peculiar distribution, as it is kno-svTi only in the East 

 Himalayas and Angola. 



1. D. bracteata, Grah. in Wall Cat. 5339; Wight Ic. t. 265. Poda- 

 lyria bracteata, Roxh, Cor, PL iii. t. 259; FL Ind, ii. 317. 



Eastern Himalayas, tropical region, Assam, Silhet, and Chittagong. , . 



A subscandent shrub, with slender finely grey-downy branches. Leaves simp^^* 

 distinctly petioled. ol)long, acute or obtuse, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, 4-12 i^- 

 long; stipules small, lanceolate, subpersistent. Flowers in sparse lax subsessi 

 axillary corymbs about as long as the petioles, terminal on the branchlets, "wliic 

 have several pairs of round membranous large persistent striated bracts; ^"^^^^lu 

 like the bracts, but larger, completely billing the flowers. Calyx ^ in., silky. ^*?''^ 

 whitish, twice the length of the calyx. Pod 2-4 in. long, the thick discoid seeds 

 inch broad. 



02. SOPKOBA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers showy, yellow or ^^^^^ 

 •pie, racemed or ranicled. Calvx ohliaue. broadlv camDanidate; i^^. 



^xt-ALviu, vcij^ Buuru K^urmia muca exserteu ; stanaara oroau ; pcuwc* -^- 



length, all with long claws ; keel obtuse, or appendiculate in § ^^^^f[f '^ 

 a small hooked mucro. Stamens " 



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uniform, versatile^ Ovary stalked, man\--ovuled : style incurved, stJg»* 





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