240 DiADELPHiA DECANDRIA. Galedupa, 



ed by the new foliage. Flowers during the hot season; and 

 the seed ripens (ovvanl tlie dose of the year. 



Trunk rarely straight, heiglit very various, say from ten to 

 twenty feet. i?«r/t smooth, olive-coloured. Bmwc/ies spread- 

 ing irregularly in every direction. Branchlets twiggy, very 

 long, often pendulous. Leaves unequally pinnate, from 

 twelve to eighteen inches long. Leaflets opposite, generally 

 three pair, oval, pointed, entire, smooth, shining, deep green ; 

 about four or five inches long, and from two to three broad. 

 Petioles round, smooth. St'rpides oval, reflexed. Racemes 

 axillary, peduncled, about half the length of the leaves, erect, 

 many-flowered. Bractes broad-lanceolate, two-flowered, 

 caducous. Flowers pretty large, of a beautiful mixture of 

 blue, white, and purple. Calyx obliquely cup-shaped, 

 slightly four-toothed, of a dark purple colour. Banner very 

 broad, emarginate ; callous processes large as in Dolichos, 

 pointed, and projecting almost directly down. Filaments of 

 ecjual length. Stiff ma smooth, Lcf/ume ovate, compressed, 

 smooth, with the apex thick and bent down, about two inches 

 long, and one broad, one-celled. Seed generally single, 

 compressed, almost round, smooth, light gray. 



The wood of this tree is light, Avhite, and firm; it serves 

 for a variety of economical purposes. Branches stuck m the 

 ground to fence round some Cinnamon trees, grew readily ; 

 grass and almost every thing else grows well under its shade. 

 The seeds yield an useful oil ; and cattle are fond of the 

 leaves. 



2. G. piscidia. R. 



Arboreous, smooth. Leaflets three or five, the pairs op- 

 posite, lanceolate. Racemes axillary and terminal, simple, 

 or ramous. Filaments single and nine-cleft. 



A small tree, a native of the mountains on the border of 

 Silhet, where it is called Chnndkeehy the natives, who pow- 

 der the bark and flowers, which they throw into any small 

 body of water, where there are fish they wish to take, by 



