in every direction,” and had it not been reasonable to ex- 
pect that I. arborea would have attained a larger size ina 
shorter time. There is a very near affinity between Inpico- 
FERA casstoides, Rortt., 1. violacea, Roxs., 1. arborea, Roxs., 
I. Jirahulia, Haminton, and the specimens which I named 
I. verrucosa, in Wautuicn’s List of Plants in the East India 
Company’s Museum. If they shall prove to be specifically 
the same, the name of I. cassioides ought to be adopted, as 
published by De Canpoxze, in his Prodromus, in 1825. I 
have no specimen of I. violacea from the Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta, with which to compare our plant, and the speci- 
mens of I. arborea from thence have their branches much 
diffused. 
Descr. Shrub (with us five feet high) erect; branches sub-erect, 
round, pubescent when young, bark brown, with straight, slightly pro- 
minent, continuous, longitudinal lines, slightly warted on the older 
branches. Leaves (two inches and a half long) pinnated ; leaflets in five 
pairs, obovato-elliptical, flat, slightly pubescent on both sides, the hairs, 
as most commonly in the Genus, fixed by the middle, and adpressed, 
rufous upon the young leaves, and on the extremities of the twigs. 
Stipules and stipellules bristle-like, hairy, marcescent, the former spread- 
ing, the latter erect. Aacemes axillary, longer than the leaves; flowers 
twelve to twenty, continued nearly to the bottom of the pubescent pe- 
duncle ; pedicels rarely twice as long as the concave, subulate, deciduous 
bractee, from the axils of which they spring. Calyx rather shorter 
than the pedicel, pubescent, rotate, five-toothed, the lowest tooth the 
longest, the two upper distant. Corolla large and handsome, nectari- 
ferous at the base; vezillum erect, elliptical, concave, with a white 
slightly striated spot on the inside, near its base, above which it is red- 
dish-purple, passing into lilac, and becoming gradually paler upwards ; 
nearly sessile, and somewhat callous at its insertion into the calyx. 
Ale scarcely shorter than the vexillum, of a bright and deep rose-co- 
_ lour, spread out horizontally in the centre of the flower, the upper (inner) 
edges being straight and in contact, the lower (outer) edges hatchet- 
shaped, attenuated downwards, swollen at the base, and there slightly 
hairy and gibbous on the outer and upper sides, its short tooth-like claw 
being projected from the lower edge; keel rather longer than the ale ; 
rose-coloured in its edges, every where else pale lilac: its petals united, 
except at the claws, which are callous; at first straight, and afterwards 
bent down elastically, separating very widely the keel and ale from the 
vexillum, somewhat hairy towards its edge and back, toothed on the 
upper edge of its claws, and having a distinct papilla on each side. 
_ Stamens diadelphous, included within the keel. Filaments purple, gla- 
_ brous, a very short ascending portion only being free; anthers green, 
_ Mucronate; pollen granules extremely minute. Pistil little longer than 
the stamens; stigma minute; style slightly pubescent; germen linear, 
_ glabrous. Ovules about ten. Graham. 
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