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PODALYRIA. Lamark. 
_ Calyx five-toothed. Corol papilionaceous. Legume 
veniricose, few, or many-seeded. 
P. bracteata. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves simple, oval. Peduncles axillary, 
once or twice bifid; ultimate divisions flowered, with a 
pair of large, opposite, roundish, many-nerved bractes, 
hiding the calyx, and a similar pair at the forks of the 
peduncles. 
Gopoort, the vernacular name in the Silhet district, 
Where it is found indigenous in the forests, growing to 
the size of a large bushy sbrub,; | Flowering in May and 
June, and the seeds ripening in December and January. 
Tender shoots columnar, and clothed with a few thinly 
Scattered hairs. Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, 
- oval, entire, obtuse, smooth, and beautifully reticulat- 
ed with slender veins ; from three to six inches long, and 
from two to four broad. Petioles from half an inch, to.an 
inch and a half long, a little hairy. Stipules ovate, ma- 
hy-nerved. Peduncles axillary, solitary, once or twice 
bifid, each ultimate division, one-flowered. Bracfes in 
pairs at the divisions of the peduncles, one pair the 
Jargest, embracing each flower; all round, or oval, and 
Many-nerved. Flowers large, white, perfectly papiliona- 
ceous. Calyx bowl-shaped, hairy on the outside, Mouth 
Mequally five-toothed, caducous. Banner very broad, 
deeply emarginate, short-clawed. Wings falcate, obtuse, 
five-clawed, the length of the banner, keel two-petalled, 
their lower margins united, of the length and shape of the 
Wings, Filaments ten, distinct to their insertion into the 
Teceptacle round the base of the germ, subulate, smooth, 
Nearly as long as the pistillum, ascending in a gentle 
“urve, Anthers ovate, oblong, erect. Germ lanceolate, 
Smooth, one-celled, containing three ovula attached to: the 
paula Style subulate. Stigma acute, g 
