242 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Galedupa, 
distinctly petiolate, the pairs opposite, and oblong, the ter- 
minal one cuneate-oblong, all are.entire, and smooth on both 
sides; from two to four inches long. Petiolets and petioles 
smooth, Stipules ovate, peltate, hairy. Racemes lateral, 
distinct, but numerous, and approximate, generally com- 
pound, scarcely villous, Bractes small, ovate, obtuse, Flow- 
ers numerous, pretty large, with a rosy keel, white banner 
and wings. Calyx wide, bowl-shaped, obscurely five-tooth- 
ed, Stamina one and nine. Germ linear, very hairy, its base 
embraced by a small notched cup open on the upper edge, 
one-celled, containing two ovula, attached to the upper mar- 
gin. Stigma acute, and simple. Legumes orbicular, mar- 
ginated, finely acuminate, one, rarely two-seeded. 
4. G, elliptica. Roxb. : : 
Twining. Leaflets opposite, from four to five pair, cu- 
neate-oblong. Racemes panicled, axillary. Partial pedun- 
cles from two to five-flowered. Calyx bowl-shaped, almost 
entire. Banner with two scales at the base. Legume elliptic. 
A native of Amboyna and the Malay Islands. In the 
Botanic garden it blossoms in March, and ripens its seed in 
August. 
Stems scandent and twining to a great extent. Bark dark 
brown, and scabrous. Young parts covered with ferrugi- 
nous pubescence. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, from 
_  8ix to eighteen inches long. Leaflets opposite, from four to — 
ired, sierbneticlate: oblong, entire, smooth, taper, — 
pe from two to six inches long, the inferior ones 
being the smallest. Petioles channelled, villous. Stipules 
broad-triangular, obtuse, permanent, ferruginous, Racemes 
panicled, axillary, one, two, or three together, composed of 
alternate, short, diverging, partial, villous peduncles, bearing 
from two to five, large, pink-coloured, villous, pedicelled 
_ flowers on their apices. Bractes ovate, ferruginous. Calyx 
ample, of an oblique, gibbous cup shape, with its margin 
slightly five-toothed. Banner erect, oval, — 
