Seeuridaca. DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA, 219 
3. B. undulata. R. . 
Annual, ramous, Leaves alternate, ovate-cordate, much 
waved, from three to five-nerved. Spikes terminal ; flowers 
crested, Capsule reniform, margins prickly. 
A native of Prince of Wales’ Island. 
SECURIDACA. Schreb. gen. N. 1156. 
Calyx three-leaved. Corol papilionaceous, with the ban- 
ner two-leaved, without the wings. Legume (capsule) ovate, 
one-celled, one-seeded, ending in a ligulate wing. 
S. paniculata. R. ins AF 3 sis aedat eau 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oblong. Panicle terminal 
and axillary. F/owers crested, as in many of the Polygalas. 
Ferinjer, the vernacular name in Silhet, where, as wellas 
Chittagong, it is indigenous, growing to be a large, very ra- 
mous, bushy shrub. Flowering in August, and the seed ri- 
pening in April, | 
Stem stout'and woody, covered with smooth, olive-colour- 
ed bark. Branches numerous, extremities drooping, round 
and smooth, even polished. Leaves alternate, bifarious, short- 
petioled, oblong, entire, acute, smooth on both sides, co- 
loured, from three to four inches long, and from one to two 
broad. Petioles very short, and inserted on a brown, glan- 
dular receptacle, which has a pit on each side, and no other 
stipula. Panicles terminal with smaller ones from the exte- 
rior axills, large, ramous, open. Flowers numerous, but stand- 
ing single, long-pedicelled, small, red. Calyx three-leaved. 
Leaflets ovate-oblong, one incumbent, and two under the 
flower laterally. Corol sub-papilionaceous, five-petalled, the 
two largest inserted on the sides, and from the banuer, exte- 
rior ; they are oval, and taper at the base, spreading out, and 
_ ascending; the interior three, two of them the wings, spatu- 
late, and inverted on the posterior sides of the boat-shaped, 
one-leaved, crested carina, all are curled on the margins and 
Bb2 * 
