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which lliey are said to be intoxicated, and easily caught, and 

 arc not reckoned the less wholesome by the effects of the 

 powder. 



Flowering time July ; seed ripens in the cool season. 



Twiffs slender, and clothed with remarkably white, smooth 

 bark. Leaves alternate, quinate-piimate, and ternate, from 

 jsix to eight inches long-. Leaflets three or five, the pairs 

 opposite, or nearly so, petiolate, lanceolate, entire, obtusely 

 acnniinate, from two to four inches long-, and one or one and 

 a half broad. Petioles an<l petiolets round and smooth. Sti- 

 pules. Racemes axillary and terminal, frequently ramous near 

 the base, shorter than the leaves, smooth. Flowers pretty 

 large, white, long pedicelled, and always in pairs, rather re- 

 Hjote from each other. Calyx campanulate; the vpper lip of 

 two rounded segments ; the nnder one of three, and more pro- 

 truded. Coro/ papilionaceous; i\\e wings AnA Aree/ remarkably 

 slender. Filaments owe i\x\{\ nine. Germ pedicelled, three or 

 four-seeded. Stijle incurved. Stiff ma single. Legume long- 

 pedicelled, differing in shape according to the number of 

 seeds, the most common form is broad-spatulate, or battle- 

 door-shaped with a sharp beak, and then one-seeded ; surface 

 pretty smooth, and reticulate with veins. Seeds as large as 

 common garden beans, and much like them. Embryo as in 

 the order. Cotyledons green. 



3. G. marginata. R. 



Twining. Leaflets petiolate, five, seven, or nine, oblong, 

 and cuneate-oblong, entire, smooth. Stipules adnate, ovate, 

 hairy. Racemes lateral. Legume sub-orbicular, smooth; 

 upper margin winged, one, rarely two-seeded. 



Ooknee, the vernacular name in Silhet, w here it is indioen- 

 ous; flowering in April and May. 



Stem ligueous. Branches and branchlets twining and 



scandent to a great extent. Bark brown, and marked with 



little gray scabrous specks. Leaves alternate, from six to ten 



inches long, unequally piimate. I^eaflets five, seven or nine, 



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