Ormocarpum. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 143 
late cuspidate. Petioles 1-3 in. long, articulated at the apex, glabrous. 
Leaves simple, ovate acuminate, 3—4 in. long, when full grown, by 14-2 
in. broad, both sides glabrous, the upper one dark green, veins clightly 
prominent. Flowers 1—4, laxly racemose, on a peduncle about half an 
Inch long from the axils of the leaves. Bracts lanceolate, small. Pe- 
dicels slender, glabrous, about equalling the glabrous calyx, which is 
2 lines deep, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down, 
the two upper ones shorter and subconnate. Corolla rose-coloured, 
twice as long as the calyx, deciduous. Pod 2 in. or more long, with 
2-4 articulations, which are ? in. long by 4 in. broad, narrowed to both 
ends, the lowest distinctly stalked, polished, olive-grey, with prominent 
longitudinal lines and a few scattered papillee. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Beauvois, Vogel! and others. Senegambia, 
Heudelot ! 
2. O. sennoides, DC. Prod. ii. 315. A much branched shrub, 4-6 
ft. high, with glabrous terete branches. Stipules small, spreading, lan- 
ceolate acuminate. Petiole 3-3 in. long, glabrous or glandular. Rachis 
2-3 in. long, leaflets 13-17, oblanceolate, 3-1 in. long, 1— in. broad, 
the apex rounded and mucronate, short-stalked and very deciduous, 
under surface subglaucous. Flowers in lax axillary 38-6-flowered ra- 
cemes, which are shorter than the leaves. Bracteoles small, lanceolate, 
Scarious. Pedicels 1_8 in. long, slender, glabrous or slightly glandular. 
Calyx } in. deep, campanulate, the lower teeth lanceolate, reaching 
haltway down, the two upper ones subconnate. Corolla yellow, with 
reddish strie, twice as long as the calyx, deciduous. Pod distinctly 
stalked, pointed, with 2-6 articulations, which are }—} in. long, } in. 
broad, glabrous.—0. coronilloides, G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 279. Rathkea 
glabra, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 3855. schynomene coluteoides, A. 
Rich. Sert. Astrol. 87 t. 32. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Dr. Mac- 
william! Island of St. Thomas, G. Don! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Casengo and Loanda, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Extends through Tropical Asia to Australia. The ordinary Indian form has the pod 
glandulose-muricated on the faces, but we have the African form from Ceylon, Loo Choo 
isles, Siam, and North Australia. 
3. O. bibracteatum, Baler. A shrub or tree with thick, woody, 
grey terete branches. Stipules }in. deep, lanceolate, scarious, con- 
Spicuously veined. Leaves crowded, subsessile, the rachis 2—3 in. long, 
the leaflets in 6-8 pairs and a terminal one, oblong, }-3 in. long by 
less than half as broad, the apex rounded and mucronate, texture firm, 
rachis and under surface thinly silky, only the midrib prominent. 
Flowers crowded on the woody twigs, solitary or in pairs. Pedicels 
slender, erect, grey-silky, with a pair of opposite spreading ovate- 
lanceolate bracteoles below the calyx and sometimes others lower down. 
Calyx campanulate, becoming submembranous, brownish and ky 
4—§ in. deep, the upper teeth oblong-deltoid and blunt, reaching nearly 
halfway down, the lowest longer and more pointed. Corolla reddish, 
