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age acquire a large conic base. Bark smooth, and polish- 

 ed in the young shoots. Leaves bipinnate, from one to two 

 feet long. PinncB opposite, from three or four to six or 

 seven pair. Leaflets generally four or five pair, opposite, 

 ovate, entire, taper-pointed, firm, and polished on both 

 sides, from one to three inches long. Petioles common 

 and partial, round, smooth, and armed with recurved 

 prickles. Stipules minute, falling long before the leaves 

 are full grown- Pan?c/es axillary, and terminal, composed 

 of a few simple, ascending, rigid racemes. Bractes small 

 caducous. Flowers numerous, solitary, drooping, green- 

 ish yellows Calyx as in the genus, yellow, and smooth, size 

 of thecorol. Co/or greenish, the upper petals two-lobed, 

 the Zo6es large, and at all periods folded down like an arch, 

 over the base, and the insertion of the stamina and pistil ; 

 lateral pairs nearly round, at first greenish, becoming 

 yellow by exposure to the air and light. Filaments scarce- 

 ly downy at the base, much longer than the corol- 

 Germ short-pedicelled. Stigma obliquely funnel-shaped. 

 Legume linear-oblong, thin, pointed and often twisted 

 near the apex, smooth and unarmed, a thin membranace- 

 ous, scariose wing runs along the whole length of the 

 back. Seeds one or two, smooth, light brown- 



5- C- Simora. Buck. 



Scandent, armed, the tender parts coloured and glan- 

 dular. Leaves bipinnate ; pinuce from twelve to twenty- 

 four pair ; leaflets from eight to sixteen pair. Stipules 

 ensiform. Racemes simple, leaf-opposed and terminal. 

 Legume dolabriform, turgid, two-seeded. 



A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent 

 seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta where the plants 

 grow luxuriantly, and blossom during the cold season; the 

 seeds ripen four or five months afterwards. Stem and lar- 

 ger branches stout, and ligneous, climbing over trees to a 

 considerable extent. Bark brown, and armed with very 



