318 DiADELPniA DECANDniA. Ghjcmc. 



round-obovate. Racemes axillary, intercepted. Legumes 

 nearly straight, with an erect beak. 



Suns. Masha purnee. 



Beiig. Maslianee. 



Is a native of Bengal and other parts of India, but scarce. 

 Flowering- time the rains; the s^eed ripens during the cold 

 season. 



Root,(\ believe) perennial. Stem none, but many slender, 

 diffuse, hairy branches spreading on the ground, wiili twin- 

 ing extremities, when they meet with support. Leaves ternate. 

 Leapts roundish, obovate, hoary, and hairy underneath ; 

 veins parallel. Prf/o^e.s- channelled, hairy. Stifjules of the 

 petioles and leaflets cMisiform. Racemes axillary, solitary, 

 hairy, about as long as the leaves. F/oicers in small, remote 

 fasciculi, minute, of a deep reddish violet. Legumes nearly 

 straight, hairy, beak erect. Seeds about six or seven. 



2. G. fal/iafis. Roxh. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves ternate ; leaflets ovate oblong. 

 Fi/ameiits alternately sterile. Carol nearly two-lipped. 



A pretty exten>ive, shrubby species, conunon on banks of 

 wafer cour-es, in forests, &.c. Flowers duiiiig the rains. 



Stem woody, twiiiinii', slender, a little hairy. Leaves ter- 

 nate. Leaflets ovate, entire, a little hairy on the under side, 

 of a deep green above, about an inch and a hall" long. Peti- 

 oles chaniielleil Stipules acute, hairy ; those of the leaHets 

 subulate. Racemes axillary, longer than the leaves inter- 

 rupted. Floa-ers numerous, small, rose-coloured, collected 

 on the alternate glandular tuberosities of the raceme. Calyx 

 hairy. Baiimr emarginate, with the siile-i reflected. Wings 

 projecting, horizontal, hiding the keel, which niakes the flow- 

 crsappear two-lipped rather than papilionaceous; Aee/ short, 

 as if truncated. Filaments one and nine, alternately shorter 

 and sterile. Anthers five, oval, incumbent on the five long- 

 er filaments. Legumes straight, short, round, erect, obtuse, 

 strong pointed, from six to twelve-seeded. 



