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rusty pubescence. Branches angular, with very large 

 lenticels, as much as 1/5 inch long and leaf-scars of 

 ^ inch. Leaves 6 to 10 inches usually drooping the main 

 stalk with thick pulvinus-like base : leaflets eleven, pro- 

 gressively larger from the basal pair upwards, 2 to 9 by 

 I to 2 inches, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 rounded at the base, glossy on the upper side, dull on the 

 lower ; stalk and midrib rusty or pinkish ; nerves seven to 

 eleven pairs, tufts of hairs in the axils and much raised 

 on the lower side ; secondary reticulation very fine. 

 Flowers in compound panicles made up of panicles in the 

 axils of the uppermost leaves and bracts, each 6 to 10 

 inches, branches- of panicles spreading stifly, crowded 

 with flowers, t. 71. Wight 111. t. 53. ('' Milingtonia.") 



Nilgiris : very common on the borders of our area : in 

 sholas west of Pykara, down to Neduvattam 6,700 feet and 

 below ; Kotagiri especially on the Kodanad road and on the 

 hillside below it. Also in Coonoor at the first bend on the 

 road from the station. Not near Ootacamund or Kodaikanal. 

 Fyson 1927. 



Ge7i. Dist. Western Ghats, Coorg, etc., to Bombay, Manipur, Buruia 

 and Ceylon. 



The flowers have a sweet almost sickly honey smell, and 

 come out early in May before the rains in such quantities as to 

 make the whole tree cream-coloured and unmistakable even at 

 a distance. 



LEGUMINOS/E. 



This large order comprises three easily distinguished 

 families. A. PAPILIONACE^E consisting of the Pea, 

 Gram, Bean, Clover, Vetch and their allies ; B. C^SAL- 

 PINEiE consisting of the Tamarind, CASSIA, POINCIANA, 

 BAUHINIA, and other trees common on the plains ; C 

 MIMOSE^ consisting of ACACIA and its allies. These 

 three families are alike in having one carpel only to the 

 ovary, attached below the rim of the more or less 

 hollowed flower-stalk {calyx-tiihe) and seeds containing a 



