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Calyx teeth very short. Corolla much longer. Pod thin, 

 indehiscent, with a few flat seeds. 



Species about 50 in the tropics. 



Dcrris canarcnsis Baker; F.B.I, ii 246 and D. 

 oblonga Be?tth Ic. 242. Leaflets about 7, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, ij^ to 2 inches by I inch. Spikes of flowers 

 erect, 3 to 6 inches, three or four together fascicled or 

 on very short peduncles in the leaf-axils, rachis brown. 

 Flowers fascicled. Pedicels about % inch. Calyx % 

 inch, brown. Corolla nearly ^ inch longer, white. 

 Standard strongly reflexed ; keel obtuse ; wings shorter. 

 Pod not seen. t. 320. Trim. Fl., Ceylon, t. xxix. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal near the junction of the upper and 

 middle lake roads. Fyson 4205. 



I name this from the illustration in Trimen's Flora, though the flowers 

 are shown there as pink, for in all other respects it seems to agree with 

 that figure. But if this is correct the species attains a higher elevation 

 than has been supposed, for Gamble in Fl. M. Pres. gives its locality as 

 in evergreen forests and along backwaters. It should then probably be 

 considered a highland white flowered form of the species. 



SOPHORA. 



Sophora glauca Lesch.] Vol. I p. 123 and II t. 90. 

 Flowers pink. 



C/ESALPINIE^. 



Vol. I p. 124. 



CyESALPINIA. F.B.I. 50 xcvi. 



Trees, shrubs or woody prickly climbers with bipinnate 

 leaves and showy yellow flowers in axillary racemes. 

 Calyx of five almost free sepals, the lowest and largest 

 of which is spoon-shaped. Petals roundish sub-equal 

 with distinct claw. Stamens 10, bent down a little. Pod 

 thin or turgid, dehiscent or not. 



Species about 50 in the tropics. 



Caesalpinia pulcherima Swartz ; the Peacock flower of the Chinese, or 

 Barbados hedge, with large orange red flowers, is almost universal in 

 Madras gardens. 



