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numerous, bright yellow, and though not small, they are 

 more so than any other Indian species of this genus I 

 have yet met with. Bractes most minute, one-flowered. 

 Calyx smooth, coloured on the inside ; lower division of 

 the border much larger than the rest ; the base only 

 permanent. Carol the two lateral pair of petals nearly 

 equal, roundish, expanding, short-clawed. The superior 

 one smaller, ovate-cuneate, with a curled margin, and on 

 the centre a tuft of wool, coloured with reddish veins. 

 Legumes oblong, thick, fleshy on the margin, protuberant 

 where the seeds are lodged. Seeds from one to three, 

 round, smooth, brown, size of a marrow-fat pea. 



10. C. enneaphylla. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, armed. Leaves bipinnate. Pin- 

 nee and leaflets from eight iv> t^n-paired. Panicles termi- 

 nal. Legume unarmed, winged on the back, five-seeded. 



A native of the eastern parts of Bengal, where it blos- 

 soms about the beginning of the cold season. Trunk 

 and larger branches stout, ligneous, climbing up and over 

 large trees, and wiiatever else they meet with, armed with 

 numerous, curved, sharp, black prickles, each inserted 

 over the old woody parts, on a large, transversely oblong, 

 subsolid tuberosity. Bark of the young shoots smooth, 

 shining, deep green, armed with numerous smooth, 

 sharp prickles. Leaves alternate, bipinnate, from nine 

 to ten inches long. Pinnce opposite, generally eight, 

 nine, or ten pairs. Leaflets from eight to ten pairs, 

 cuneate-oblong, rounded at both ends, entire, smooth 

 on both sides ; from half an inch to one inch long. Petioles 

 common, armed underneath ; with many, recurved, sharp 

 prickles ; a pair of which is always placed at the inser- 

 tion of the pinnas, and sometimes a single straight one 

 on the upper side between them. Stipules scarcely any. 

 Panicles terminal, composed of many large, ascending 

 racemes, of numerous, beautiful yellow fragrant flowers. 



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