43. JPAPILIONACEJE. [2. Flemings 



3. F- Chappar, Bam. Ulu, E., S. 



An erect shrub 5-10 ft. with pubescent branches, strongly - 

 nerved orbicnlar-ovate cordate cuspidate leaves and several 

 axillary racemes of secnnd 2-seriate large folded bracts 

 enclosing the small cymes of white flowers. 



Singbhum forests, often forming a dense undergrowth. Manbhum ; 

 Eazaribagh. 



Fls. Jany.-March, but the bracts are well-developed in Oct. Ft. 

 April-May when the bracts are brown and dry. It is deciduous in April \ 

 new leaves appear May or June. 



Petioles l? 7 , thickened both ends. Bracts f-1* by lj-lj'' (when un- 

 folded), cordate emarginate. Fls. f-^ 7 , opening one at a time successively 

 and then becoming visible between the parted margins of the bract, few 

 in an umbel, pedicelled. 



4. P. paxiiculata, Wall. 



A shrub 4-6 ft. high with rasty downy branches, rather 

 large ovate-cordate simple cuspidate membranous leaves and 

 small white or reddish flowers about -, 5 ^" in short rather 

 dense axillary and terminal panicles or fascicled. 



Valleys in Porahat and Saranda, rather rare. Valleys in S. P. (Mor- 

 jhora). Fls. Feby. -March. 



L. about 5£" by 3|"» base sometimes nearly straight and oblique. 

 Petiole f-H". Stipules caducous. Racemes densely hairy sometimes very 

 short solitary and axillary or in the same plant forming terminal panicles 

 6" long. Brads dry ovate or lanceolate strongly nerved %-%'. Calyx-teeth 

 hairy with filiform tips. Pods ^", 



5. P. stricta, Roxb. 



A tall very distinct scarcely shrubby species 6-8 ft. high 

 with large 3-fo)iolate leaves and dense axillary racemes of 

 purplish flowers, conspicuous in bud by their densely im- 

 bricating brown linear-lanceolate bracts. 



Valley-forests in shade, Singbhum, rare. Kanchi, 1,500-2,000 ft., TTood. 

 Fls. Jany.-Feby. Shoots annual. 



Branches triquetrous. Lflts. lanceolate or ell.-acuminate 6-10'' long 

 with numerous parallel nerves hairy below. Petiole 3-quetrous, sulcate, 

 5-6.'' Stipules and lower Iracts l-3£" acuminate. Upper bracts \" brown 

 deciduous when the flowers expand, finely acuminate. Fls. $". 



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