24D DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Galedupa. . 
ed by the new foliage. Flowers during the hot season; and 
the seed ripens toward the close of the year. , 
Trunk rarely straight, height very various, say from ten to 
twenty feet. Bark smooth, olive-coloured. Branches spread- ° 
ing irregularly in every direction. Branchlets twiggy, very 
long, often pendulous. Leaves unequally pinnate, from 
twelve to eighteen mches long. Leaflets opposite, generally 
three pair, oval, pointed, entire, smooth, shining, deep green ; 
about four or five inches long, aad from two to three broad. * 
Petioles round, smooth. Stipules oval, reflexed. Racemes 
axillary, peduncled, about half the length of the leaves, erect, 
many-flowered. Bractes broad-lanceolate, two-flowered, 
caducous. Flowers pretty large, of a beautiful mixture of 
blue, white, and purple. Calyx obliquely cup-shaped, 
slightly four-toothed, of a dark purple colour. Banner very 
broad, emarginate ; callows processes large as in Dolichos, 
pointed, and projecting almost directly down. Fi/aments of 
equal length. Stigma smooth. Legume ovate, compressed, 
smooth, with the apex thick and bent down, about two inches 
long, and one broad, one-celled. Seed generall y single, 
compressed, almost round, smooth, light gray. 
The wood of this tree is Jight, white, and firm; it serves 
for a variety of economical purposes, Branches stuck in the 
ground to fence round some Cinnamon trees, grew readily ; 
_ grass and almost every thing else grows well under itsshade. 
: : = ae seeds hey an useful oil; and cattle are fond of _ 
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Arboreous, smooth. Leaflets three or five, the pairs op- 
posite, lanceolate. Racemes axillary and terminal, esti | 
or ramous. ° Filaments single and nine-cleft. 
A small tree, a native of the mountains on the border of 
Silhet, where it is called Chundkee by the natives, who pow- | 
der the bark and flowers, which they throw into any small 
body of water, where there are fish they wish to take, by 
