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of select Indian Plants. 359 
such an umbel by elongation of the ramifications; which, scat- 
tering the rays of what should form an umbellet, converts the 
inflorescence into a panicle. | 
MACROLOBIUM sisvcum. 
Tas. XVII. 
Flowers triandrous. Six sterile filaments. Leaves two-paired. 
Whence or how introduced into the botanical garden at Cal- 
cutta, where a solitary plant has long been, is uncertain. It 
flowered there for the first; and, so far as is known, the only 
time, in 1813; in the hot season; the tree being about eight feet 
high; and ripened a single legume in September. 
Trunk arborescent, erect. Bark gray, smooth. Branches spread- 
drooping towards the extremity. Leaves 
| | Leaflets obliquely elliptic, fal- 
ches long; 2—24 broad. Pe- 
annelled. Stipules none. 
ry ramifications dichoto- 
ing, adic 
alternat 
Leaflets rosii - concave, door Corol "bun Petal o one, 
vexilliform, round-cordate, wavy. Claw linear, downy on both 
surfaces. Wings and Keel none. Filaments nine: three anthe- 
: riferous, filiform, thrice as long as the corol, incurved : six ste- 
rile, (a pair on either side of the vexillum, and solitary ones al- 
_ternating with the fertile 3) less than a quarter of the length of 
the fertile ones: all united at the very base, and free above, 
dark chesnut-coloured, beset towards the lower end with thinly- 
scattered: white hairs : tips of t the sterile filaments hooked, white. 
inear, incumbent. Germ linear-oblong, compressed, 
villous, containing a few ( bout eight) globular ovula. Style 
length 
