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especially in the upper half ; leaflets 3, membranous, uniformly bright 

 green, densely brownish-grey pnberulous when young when full-grown 

 quite glabrous, terminal subreniform lateral pair slightly oblique 

 triangular, all subcuspidate at apex and subtruncate at base, 4-6 in. lono* 

 terminal rather broader than, lateral hardly so broad as long ; petiolules 

 •3-*4 in, long ; stipels represented by ovate glands •) in. diam. that 

 remain attached to the rachis on the fall of the leaflets ; stipules flaccid 

 lanceolate '4 in. long softly brown-puber ulcus early caducous. Inflores- 

 cence of dense racemes 4-6 in. long on stout spreading woody peduncles 

 3-4 in. long ; flowers 1-3 in axils of small triangular puberulous 

 deciduous bracts, pedicels "25 in. long at first brown-puberulous with 2 

 subulate puberulous deciduous bracteoles "15 in. long at base of calyx. 

 B2ids narrowly spindle-shaped slightly falcate puberulous. Calyx 1-1 '25 

 in. long, soon glabrescent, mouth very oblique splitting to the bas© 

 down the back the tip with 5 teeth of which 2 or casually 3 are narrow- 

 ly sabulate '2 in. long much exceeding the others. Corolla bright-red 

 2-2-5 in. long, standard 1 in. wide, wings and free keel-petals subequal 

 about •5--6 in. long. Ovary softly gTey-puberulous 2 in. long, stalked. 

 Pod 6-12 in. long on a stalk 75-1 in. long, black glabrescent distinctly 

 torulose 6-8- seeded, usually the lowest and 1-3 of the uppermost seeds 

 abortive, valves ultimately irregularly shred, hardly distinctly dehiscent ; 

 seeds subreniform '6 in. long -4 in. wide testa warm-brown, hilum laro"e 

 oval dark-grey with pale margin. DO. Prodr. II, 412 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. 

 Ill, 249; Wall. Cat. 5963; W. & A. Prodr. 260; Wight, Ic. t. 58; 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 207; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 188. E, 

 spathacea Wall. Cat. 5965, fide Baker. E. Corallodendrum Linn. Sp. PI. 

 706, in part. E. cuneatu Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5967, fide Baker. 



Andamans ; on all the coasts common, Kurz ! Prain ! Nicobars • 

 common behind the sea beaches. Kings Collectors ! Perak ; Scortechini ! 

 Malacca ; fide Baker in Flora of British India. Disteib. Sea-shores of 

 S.-E. Asia, from the Sunderbuns to the Malay Archipelago and 

 Polynesia. 



This, as a wild species, is purely littoral ; where it occurs inland it has car- 

 tainly been planted. 



Mr. Baker refers here E. cuneata Grah. which the writer has not seen ; also 

 E. spathacea Wall. Cat. 5965. What Wallich's 5965 B. & C. (which were doubtfully 

 identified with 5965 A) may have been, it is difficult to say j they were Himalayan 

 plants and are not at Calcutta. But the Calcutta example of 5965 A is not named 

 E. spathacea as in the Lith. Cat., but is named E. stricta ; the specimen belongs 

 moreover to E. stricta and not to E. indica. 



SuBGEN. 2. MiCROPTERYX Walp. Galyx campanulate, more or less 

 distinctly 2-lipped, but not splitting down to the base. Pod turgid and 

 seed -bearing throughout. 



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