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L. LEGUMiNOS-E. (J. G. Baker.) 



\_Perico^sis. 



fr. 



Branches slender, finely grey-silky. Leaflets 13-21, membranous, oLlong, obtuse, 

 glabrous, 1-1^ in. long. Eacemes copious, short-peduncled, as long as the leaTes; 



pedicels finely silky, much exceeding the calyx. 

 in. long, 5-6-seeded, glabrous. 



Calyx ^-^ in. Fod pliable, 3-4 



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, Thwaites. 



A tree. Leaves odd-pinnate, with large coriaceous leaflets. Flowets 

 racemed or panicled, Colyx large, cleft to below the middle, the upper teeth 

 sliortest, suDconnate. Co?'olla little exserted ; standard round, reflexed, rather 

 shorter than the obtuse wings and keel. Stamens free, as long as the corolla^ 

 recurved at the end; anthers uniform, versatile. Ofrtry stalked, few-ovuled; 

 style long, filiform, recurved at the end, stigma oblique. Pod like that of a 

 Dei'rk, rigid, indehiscent, flattish, strap-shaped, with a narrow wing down each 

 suture. — DiSTKiB. A single species, endemic in Ceylon, 



1. P. Mooxiiana, Thwaites Enum. 413 ; Bedd. Fl Sijlv. t. 187. Dal- 

 bergia Mooniania, Thioaites Enum. 93, D. lanceolaria, Moon Cat, SI, nm 

 Linn. 



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Ceylox, southern and central districts, Thwaites, Ferguson, 



A large tree, with slender subglabrous branches. SiipulcSy bracts and bracteoles 

 minute, caducous ; leaflets 5-7, glabrous, subcoriaceous, conspicuously alternate, 

 broad oblong, subacute, 2-3 in. long. Flowtrs in sparse axillary racemes and 

 terminal corymbose panicles. Cal^/x pedicellate, glabrous, ^ in., leathery; teCtS 

 lanceolate. Corolla dark purple, yellowish at the base ; keel-petals slightly cohering*. 

 Pod 3-5 in. by 1 in., 4-5 seeded, glabrous, polished. -^ 



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95. ORMOSZA. Jacks. 



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dense 



terminal 



Erect trees. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flotoers usually *u 



racemes. Cahjx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, the upper teeth the shortest. 

 Corolla not much exserted ; petals all with short claws, about equal in length ; 

 standard round ; keel-petals and wings oblong, obtuse, the former not connate. 

 Stamens free, much incurved, often exserted when the flower expands ; anthers 

 oblong, versatile. Ovart/ subsessile ; style long, filiform, circinate at the enu, 

 stigma oblique. Pod thick, rigid or rather fleshy, turgid, 2-valv^, continuous 

 within, the sutures not winged. Seeds with a bright scarlet aril or testa. 

 DiSTRiB. Snecies above 20. cosmonolitan in the tronics. 



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* Leaflets glaWous heneath. Seeds (tchef'e Icnotvn) lai^ge, 



1. O. robusta, Wight Le. t. 245 (Sophora in tab.) ; leaflet,. , 

 lanceolate dark green, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels f^^^^ 

 than the calvx, pod oblong with the valves round on the back. 

 Wall, Cat, 5337. Sophora robusta, Roxh. Ilwt, Beng, 31. Arillaria 

 Kurz in Journ, Asiat, Soc. Beng, vol. xlii. pt. 2, 71. 



b. floiibunda, 



robusta, 



SiLHKT, Roxburgh, Wallich, Pkgu and Tenasserim, Kurz, 



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LeafieU opposit^ 



A large tree, ^v'ith thick sulcate thinly prey-downy branches. LeafieU opP^®^ . ' 

 3-5 in. lonor, acute, rounded at the base, rigidlj subcoriaceous, dull green ^^*f 1 

 the veins fine, rather raised. Racemes in a large end panicle and also r ^^ 

 the axils of the upper leaves, the branches finely grey-downy; bracts ^^^*^^, ^^ 

 minute, subpersistent ; bnicteoles 0. Calyx und^r | in., brown-silky, the teetn 



long as the tube. Corolla twice the length of the cafyx. Ovary densely silky- 

 oblong, glabrous, bright yellow, rather fleshy, but two-valved, usually 1-seeaed, iS' I 

 in. long, sometimes 2-seeded. Seeds oblong, 1^^ in. long, ' enveloped in a comp 

 thick fleshy scarlet zxW—Kurz. ' ' 



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