246 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Dervis. 
Pongamia uliginosa, DC. Prod. ii. 416. Derris Forsteniana, Miq. Fl. Ned. 
Ind. i. 144. P. madagascariensis, Bojer. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, banks of the Luabo, and in the Zambesi delta, 
Kirk! Stems used when beaten as a fish poison, acting rapidly and effectively. 
Extends through Asia to North Australia, and also occurring in Madagascar. 
5. D. brachyptera, Baker. A wide-climbing shrub (sometimes 
80 ft. long’) with finely velvety woody branches. Petioles 38—6 in. long ; 
developed leaves upwards of a foot long with 5-7 obovate coriaceous 
leaflets, conspicuously emarginate and mucronate, terminal 5—10 in. 
long, 38-7 in. broad, upper surface glabrous, the lower densely clothed 
with grey or ferruginous velvety tomentum. Petiolules } in. long, 
stipellate. Flowers fascicled in racemes sometimes a foot long or in 
ample panicles with racemose branches. Pedicels very short. Calyx 
2 lines deep, campanulate, grey-velvety, the deltoid teeth not reaching 
a quarter down. Corolla pale rose, } in. deep, the wings and deep keel 
exceeding the oblong standard. Stamens all connate in a long tube. 
Pod membranous, linear-oblong, 24—3 in. long, 1 in. broad, glabrous, 
1-seeded, with a wing } in. broad along the upper suture. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
80. ANDIRA, Lam.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 550. 
Calyx-teeth short or obsolete. Standard suborbicular, exappendicu- 
late; wings nearly straight, oblong, obtuse, free; keel-petals like the 
others, imbri¢ated but not connate on the back. Upper stamen free or 
rarely connate with the rest; anthers versatile. Ovary long-stalked 
in our plant, 2-4-ovulate ; style short incurved; stigma small, terminal. 
Legume drupaceous, ovoid or obovoid, indehiscent. Seed solitary, 
pendulous.—Stronge trees. 
A moderately small genus, all the species American, unless our second, which is only 
known very imperfectly and may not belong here, be peculiar to Africa. 
Panicle broadly pyramidal, ovary glabrous slightly ciliated . . . 1. A. inermis. 
Panicle very narrow, ovary villous ee ee 2. A. gabonica. 
1. A. inermis, 17. B. K. Nov. Gen. vi. 385. A tree 20 or 30 ft. high 
with firm woody branches, the young twigs slightly grey-pubescent. 
Petioles 2-8 in. long; leaflets 9-18, the pairs more than an inch apart, 
lanceolate or oblong or the terminal one obovate, 2—8 in. long, 3-1 in. 
broad, bluntish or subacute, the base scarcely rounded, subsessile, tex- 
ture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, veins not raised. Flowers 1 
pyramidal panicles sometimes a foot long, with distant spreading stalke 
racemose closely-flowered branches. Calyx subsessile, silky, 2 lines deep, 
the teeth very short. Corolla rose-coloured, 6—7 lines deep, the stan- 
dard 3—4 lines broad, the ovary distinctly stalked, glabrous or slightly 
ciliated, with 3 or 4 ovules. Ripe pod not seen, but in an undeveloped 
state the pedicel exceeds the calyx and all but one of the ovules are 
abortive.—Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iv. Suppl. 122. Andira racemosa, 
