328 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Robinia, 
rose-colour, collected on terminal racemes, each furnished 
with a long pedicel. Calyx four-parted, the upper division 
more removed and two-pointed. Legume about four inches 
long, linear, compressed, with six or eight flattened reniform 
seeds. 
It is a very ornamental plant, particularly while young. 
3. R, Sennoides, Roxb, 
Shrubby, unarmed. Leaflets from eight to ten pair, lan- 
ceolate. Racemes terminal. Flowers ‘large, blue, three- 
fold. Calyx four-toothed. 
Cytisus sericeus, Willd, iii, 1121. 
A native of the Circars; flowering in the hot season, 
4. R. fruticosa, Roxb. 
Shrubby, ultimately twining. Leaflets from datos to four 
pair with a terminal one, linear oblong. Racemes axillary. 
Banner with two callosities at the base. Legume flat, from 
four to six-seeded. 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal. From Chupra 
Mr. Charles Boddam sent seeds to the Botanic garden in 1803, 
where the plants blossom during the rains, and ripen their 
~ seed in January. 
Trunk short. Branches erect, the longest shoots began to 
twine in plants of four and five years of age, when they were 
not more than from three to six feet high, Bark of the older’ 
ligneous parts somewhat scabrous, that of the tender shoots 
villous, Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, from six to 
twelve inches long. Leaflets from three to five pair, opposite, 
linear oblong, those nearest the apex and particularly the ter- 
minal one, cuneate, all are entire, obtuse, and nearly smooth 
’ on both sides, from two to six inches long, and about one and 
a half broad, Petioles common, villous and slightly chan- 
nelled, much swollen at the base. Stipules of the petioles” 
triangular, those of the leaflets subulate. Racemes or rather” 
spikes axillary, generally single, and simple, mach sh rte 
