272 XL. LEGUMTNOS^. [Loicliocarjius. 



racemes, forming large teiinmal panicles, the pedicels usually 2 together on a 

 short common peduncle. Calyx about 2 lines long, slightly silky -pubescent, 

 with short broad teeth. Standard about 4 lines broad, narrowed into a long 

 claw; keel nearly as long, obliquely ovate; wings very small. Ovary very 

 villous, with numerous ovules; style short, inflexed. Pod very thin, 2 to 5 

 in. long, I to I in. broad, with 2 to 4 or 5 broad flat reniform seeds.— J///- 

 lellia Blackii, F. Muell. Tragra. ii. 123. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, W. Rill, Leichhardt ; Ips- 

 wich, Ner)2sl; Broad Souud and Boweu river, Bowman j Bockhamptou, Dallachy. 

 N- S. VITales. Clarence and Hastings rivers, Beckler. 



69. DERRIS, Lour. 



(Brachypterum, W. and Arn^ 



Calyx truncate or very shortly and broadly toothed. Standard obo- 

 vate or orbicular; keel slightly incurved. Upper stamen usually free at 

 the base, united with the others in the middle ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 sessile or shortly stipitate, with several ovules; st^le incurved, with a 

 small terminal stigma. Pod flat, oblong or linear, straight or slightly in- 

 curved, thin or coriaceous, indehiscent, the upper or both sutures bordereu 

 by a narrow^ wing. Seeds J, 2, or rarely 3, very flat, orbicular or reniform. 

 — Tall woody climbers or rarely trees. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 with a terminal odd one ; stipellae small and setaceous or none. Stipules 

 small or none. Tlowers wdiite yellowash or rarely violet, usually clustered on 

 lateral nodes along the rhachis of axillary racemes. Bracts and bracteoles 

 small and deciduous. 



_ A tropical genus, comprising a considerable number of Asiatic species with tliree S. Ame- 

 rican ones, one only of the Asiatic species extending into Africa. The Australian species 

 are both common Indian ones* Tiie genus diUcrs from Lonchocarpus and Vongamia chiefly 

 in the winged fruit. 



* 



Lciiflcts 9 to 13, usually obtuse. Racemes long and slender. Pod lan- 

 ceolate, narrowed at both ends I. D.scandens, 



Leaflets 3 to 7, usually acuminate. Racemes rather short and crowded. . . 



. Pod short and broad, obliquely rounded at both end* 2. i>. uhginosa. 



. 1* D. scandens^ Benth, Sf/n. Dalb, 103. A tall woody climber, sonie- 

 times rusty-pubescent or almost villous at first, nearly glabrous when fuH- 

 grown. Leaflets 9 to 13, broadly oblong, obtuse, retuse or shortly and^oh-^ 

 tusely acuminate, 1 to 2 in. long, llacemes rather slender, from 4 or 5 in. ' 

 to nearly 1 ft. long. Flowers about 5 lines long, in clusters of 3 to 6, the 

 pedicels filiform. Pod either 1-seeded and about 1|^ in. long, or when 

 several-seeded attaining 3 in. or more, 5 to 6 lines broad, glabrous or mi- 

 nutely pubescent, acute at both ends, very thin, with a narrow wing alo^S 

 the upper suture.— D^W^r^m scandens, Eoxb. PI. Corom. t. 192; Wight, ic 

 t 275. 



Queensland. ^Yide Bay, Bidwill ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, C. 

 Stuart ; Ipswirhj Nernst, 



W. S. "Wales. Clarence river, Beckler, 

 Common iu E. India and the Archipelago. 



2. D. uliginosa, BenUi. in PL JumjJi. i. 252, and Syn. Balk 107. 

 tall woody climber, glabrous in all its parts. Leaflets, in the common vari( 



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