] L. LEGUMIN0SJ3. (J. Gr. Baker.) 273 



■wemeb, tne most snowy ot tliose ot the Indian l/egummosae ; pedicels 2-4 in., \nth a 

 pair of large lanceolate persistent coloured bracteoles at the apex enclosing the buds. 

 Sepals membranous, coloured, 1 in. long. Petals mixed brilliant red and yellow, tho 

 upper one 2 in. long and broad ; tube as long as the sepals, cylindrical. Pod like 

 that of a Millettia, ^ ft. long, J^ in. broad, glabrous, truncate, 4-6-seeded. 



111. TAIUARZNDUS, Linn. 



A spineless tree. Leaves aWuptly pinnate. Flowers racemed- Calt/x-tiihe 

 turbinate ; disk produced some distance above its base ; teeth lanceolate, much 

 inibncated, the two lowest connate. Petals only the three upper developed, 

 ^e two lateral ovate, the upper hooded, the two lower reduced to scales. 

 wimens monadelphous, only 3 developed, the others reduced to mere bristles at 

 ' tne top of the sheath ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally, 

 ^fln/ many-ovuled, with a stalk adnate to the calyx-tube j style filiform, 

 stigma^ capitate. Pod ligulate, many-seeded, with a thin crustaceous epicarp 

 and thick pulpy mesocarp. Seeds exalbuminous. — A single species. 



. 1. T. indica, Zinn. : DC. Prodr. ii. 488 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 215 ; Wall 



C^. 5824 ; W.^A. Prodr. 285 ; Dalz, ^ Gibs. Bomh FL 82 ; Bedd. FL St/lv. 



*• 184. T. occidentalis, Gae7'tn, : DC. loc, cit T. officinalis, Hook. Bot Mag. 

 t4563. ' 



DiflPused through India and the Tropics generally, probably indigenous in 

 Atnca. . 



A large unarmed tree. Leaves abruptly] pinnate, with 20-40, glabrescent, ctose 

 owuse opposite oblong leaflets. Flowers few together, in copious lax racemes at the 

 sha ^\ ^"^^ tranchlets ; pedicels articulated at the base of the calyx ; bracts boat- 



r?P^'^^cl<^sing the buds, caducous. Petals under i in. long, yellow, striped with 



^- Pod 3-6 in. by 1 in. or more, 3-10-seeded. 



112. KUMBOZiBTZA, Vahl. 



Uuarmi 



d erect small trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with persistent usually 

 * ™.^ oui^oles. Flowers small, in copious racemes, each furnished with a pair 

 ^. persistent coloured bracteoles at the base, Cfcf/y.r-tube turbinate, with the 

 JJ?^ produced some distance above its base ; sepals 4, oblong, subequal, im- 

 ^cated. Petals 6 or 3, oblong-spat hulate, clawed, subequal, exceeding the 

 ^J^- Stamens 6, equal, exserted, alternating with 5 minute stammodes, 

 2^ents filiform ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. 02;^/ry 

 sHoi^ ^^^ immersed in the disk, linear, few-ovuled ; style very long, filiform, 

 jtP^ terminal. Pod^^^ A^^.;c.^^r.4■ ■P.-r^.n-ir />nn'a/»Annfl- &eds exalbuminous. — 



XRIB 



L?/. la^rifolia, 



^^^^■^^•t. lG05;'j?ecZk FL Sylv. 93. Batschia laurifolia, Vahl, Sijvih 39, 



*Ulab 



Ceylox 



Lea ves 



-^^t ana l;eylox. ., 



. low tree, with the internodes of the branchlcts conspicuously swoUen. 

 stipuU "^i ^^^^t« o^^o^g. cuspidate, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, 3-4 in. long ; 

 ment ^^^^^^o^s, very la?ge, oblong-lanceohite, 1 in. or more long above the attach- 

 in •rv^^^^'^ dense, axillary, drooping, nearly sessile, 3-6 m. ong ; pedicels j^ 

 lit* h^^ f ^°- long, exclusive of the exserted stamens ; bracteoles oblong-spathu- 



ng as the calyx. Pod rigid, liguhite-oblong, 3-4 m. long, beeds 3-4. 



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