198 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY, 
dia, has onl This species is a large showy tree. The trunk of one 
uy ee It is pati that I saw, I estimated at 50 feet high w ‘chong a branch, 
phe by its prickly fruit, being the only Indian spe- Leaves alternate, unequally pines deciduou 
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oles 4-6 inches, long, round: leaflets 3-4 pairs, lance 
ee ee — conden ert ate, oleibared, somewhat sarod ot at the base, 23 
Acrocareus, (R. W.) Arn. inches long, entire, pale beneath. The flowers largish, 
Cal b-coriaceous, ebracteolate slinasloniade te, 5. ©Xpanding before the ryalntion of ine r es rea 
gS She i racemose, Racemes speciform, 6-8 inches, long, thick 
on ey lepine the gale eee apes bile covered with flowers, the pedicels a line a line and 
rus coveri . et 
wage. te about e i sessile, long persistent, “insert- a recurve sled shore Rae pelitberbe aries aoa 
ed on the mouth of the calyx and a little longer than its — espe habs leamse Ph. Ind, Or a va 
lobes ; estivation sub-imbricate: Stamens peeves with He 2 ‘Shae: jad gg ae gon flower 
j Hs — Sear, — eect auras sapien = February when almost naked of leaves. In this res] ee 
‘oscil " resembling the Lryt 
Peat ais ia pone wi fe Ae ; incarel act e atinlities si Adobe genus in ra ye ri ‘it 
‘inl r. 
style, Lani (about 15) ovuled. Fruit unkno clea eaidpem ade out for want of ruits u 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
78* (81)—I. Virgilia aurea, (Lam. )Flowering branch, _5. A legume opened, 2-seeded, seed blue (hence the 
natural size. generic nam e). ; a 
2. A dissected flower. The stamens in this figure 6. A oe ed. , 
are incorrectly represented diadelphous: they ought te 7. The same sian: transversely. 
have been shown monadelphous at the base and fre. 8. Rey cut vertically, writes the curved cabal 
above. 9. Cotyledons removed from the testa—all lie r 
3. Anthers back Sea views. a one ified. 
4. Ovary cut verti ; 
5. reerytae er of pods is full grown—natnral size. Aaa atta 2 0 Wallichii, (W. andA.) Por 
gh A seed in situ and 7. The same detached—natural ering branch—nat 
2. A di cee flower. 
: iret a , oa m ens 5, Or nary cut vertically and transversely. 
a ae 2 ones rae ue The re sal cut vertically, 2-celled and 2- 
; ie Yee y, 2-celle 
perrer nenrente ehepnn er lens ed. showing that half the ovules have abo fm 
es A seed dissected—all more ss magnified: 
“ae eal Bost suberosa, wc) Flowering 
size. 
re 83 (83)—1. wie Roxburghii, wc) 
i dissected flower, stamens aindet Iphous, Sane h—natural ~ ee 
= Si ‘Stamens front view see Calyx, Sindee and ovary, in stale 
Ak portion o f the ovary cut v ertically. ' 
Bs A portio n of a legume opened to show the seed 
th eal. tee ‘Auth f differ 
i Oe eeed—nafural sice—7 and 8. The same dis. Guleincere. 
sates 
+ (3) 
verse division. 
80 1. Desmodion raficns ‘Floweting — Na Another portion me a seed in situ. 
- A seed—natural si 
ee tome flower, petals detached from he 12: The same cut pnivebsdly; ret era 
, : Authors heck and font views. cae nde and copious albumen by whi 
el ite ry cut a ‘ically. ites 
eG 6. portion of a legume showing its jointed stru 
tur e, two of the cells opened to yale Seed ta site 
PONG: Dissected s ¢. A flower expanded, 
a Me A — a, a leaf to show the hairs—all more or 3, The same, the petals removed to show the 
less , stamens and ovary. ndage 
eee 4, Ant thers, showing the glandular appe 
Ba 2s ms . Spenser Pe (Ww. and A.) the: gene ane name ig a ah - pce i 
tural . t transversely and verti 
er partially dissected the lobes ft nikal nee 
‘to show. the’ ins i Insertion 0 of f the pe rf ats sean 4 eee Bee cepa Goring dehier 
; ary ie . Gg: ) nd Lut a 
= 4. theory Md Sctask view: = oe ge ogi is ee : : 
S ovary opened, 2-ovuled. : Ak Embryo ¢ denched. 
gto an oversight in numbering the plates of this tribe the with 
l ced : 
pee the error to be corrected in binding, ih ve numbered the criihsiine cety howd pian band in the #60 
