Galedupa., DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 241 
which they are said to be intoxicated, and easily caught, and 
are not reckoned the less wholesome by the effects of the 
powder. 
Flowering time July ; seed ripens in the cool season. 
Twigs slender, and clothed with remarkably white, smooth 
bark. Leaves alternate, quinate-pinnate, and ternate, from 
six to eight inches long. Leaflets three or five, the pairs 
opposite, or nearly so, petiolate, lanceolate, entire, obtusely 
“acuminate, from two to four inches long, and one or one and 
a half broad, Petioles and petiolets round and smooth. Sti- 
pules. Racemes axillary and terminal, frequently ramous near 
the base, shorter than the leaves, smooth. Flowers pretty 
large, white, long-pedicelled, and always in pairs, rather re- 
mote from each other. Calyx campanulate; the wpper lip of 
two rounded segments ; the under one of three, and more pro- 
truded. Corol papilionaceous; the wings and keel remarkably 
slender. Filaments one and nine. Germ pedicelled, three or 
four-seeded. Style incurved, Stigma single. Legume long- 
pedicelled, differing in shape according to the number of 
seeds, the most common form is broad-spatulate, or battle- 
door-shaped with a sharp beak, and then one-seeded ; surface 
pretty smooth, and reticulate with veins, Seeds as large as 
common garden beans, and much like them. Fahne as in 
the order. Cotyledons green. 
3. G. marginata, R. 
Twining. Leaflets petiolate, five, seven, or nine, oblong, 
and cuneate-oblong, entire, smooth, Stipufes adnate, ovate, 
hairy.. Racemes lateral. Legume sub-orbicular, smooth ; 
upper margin winged, one, rarely two-seeded, 
Ooknee, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigen- 
— ous; flowering in April and May, - 
_ Stem ligneous. Branches and branchlets twining and 
scandent to a great extent. Bark brown, and marked with 
little gray seabrous specks. Leaves alternate, from six to ten 
_ inches long, unequally pinnate. Leaflets five, seven or nine, 
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