Galedvpa, diadelphia di:candria. 239 



exactly of the same colour. Keel of two small, paler colour- 

 eil, less curled petals. Filaments ten, united into two equal, 

 distinct bodies of" five each. Anthers small, two-lobed, deep 

 yellow. Germs oblong-, pedicelled, villous, generally three 

 or four-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the mid- 

 dle of the anterior margin of its cell ; sttfle rather shorter than 

 the stamina. Stigma acute. Leyunie nearly orbicular, 

 wrinkled, of a very tough, ligneous texture, never opening 

 spontaneously, broad-winged, three or four celled ; it fre- 

 quently happens that two, or even three of the cells are 

 abortive. Seed solitary, of a long, narrow, oblique kidney 

 shape, smooth, lucid, and of a brown colour. 



GALEDUPA. Lamarck and Juss. 

 Calyx cyathiform. Stamina one and nine. Legutne ellip- 

 tically-falcate, plain, one or two-seeded. 



1. G. indica. Lamarck. Encycl. ii. 594. 



Arboreous. Leaflets three-paired, ovate, pointed. Ra- 

 cemes axillary, with many flowers in pairs. Legumes iAWi^nc, 

 one-seeded. 



Dalberffia arhorea. Willd. iii. 901. 



Pongam. Rheed. Mul. vi. t. 3. 



Sans. Karwnjwkrt. 



Hind, and Beng. Kiirunja, or Kenja. 



Robinia witis. Linn. sp. 1044. 



Pungamia, Lamarck, and Pongamia r//a6rcr, of Ventenat 

 seems to be this very tree. 



Robinia mitis, Loureir. Cochin Cli. must, T think, be a dif- 

 ferent species ; and 1 also suspect Caju-galedupa, Ihimph, 

 Amb. ii. 13. to be another, which I have not yet met with. 



Teling. Ganuga. 



A pretty large timber tree, from forty to fifty feet high, 

 comuion over all the coast, Bengal, &c. Leaves deciduous at 

 the end of the cold season, and in about a month are succeed- 



