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bristles. Corolla yellow, glabrous, '4 in. long. Pod 4-6-jointed ; faces 

 densely papillose. DC. Prodr. II, 323; Roxb. Horfc. Beng, 56; Flor. 

 Ind. Ill, 342 ; Salisb. Paradis. t. 92 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 272 ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. 148. S. ahyssinica Hoclist. in. Scliimp. PL Abyssin. 



Andamans ; a common weed tlirougbont the settlement at Port 

 Blair. Nicobaes ; Kamorta, Kurz ! Distrib. Africa; S.-E. Asia. 



Not seen from the other provinces ; probably a recent introduction from India. 

 From Java comes a very closely allied plant (S. javanica Miq.) wMcli differs mainly 

 in having no bristles on the calyx ; this may be no more than a form of the Indian 

 and African 8. sensitiva : all the specimens reported are, however, veiy uniform. 



35. Ormocarpum Beauv. 



Sbrubs. Leaves witb odd-pinnate exstipellate leaflets and persistent 

 striated stipules and bracts. Flowers in lax racemes. Calyx-tuhe cam- 

 panulate ; 2 upper teeth deltoid ; 3 lower lanceolate. Standard broad ; 

 keel much incurved, not at all beaked. Stamens in two bundles of 5 

 each ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, few-ovuled ; style filiform, in- 

 flexed, stigma minute terminal. Pod of a few indehiscent turgid linear 

 or oblong joints, the lower seedless, the faces rugose, naked or muricated 

 with weak gland-tipped prikles. Species 6, spread all round the world 

 in the tropics. 



Ormocarpum glabrum Teysm. & Binnend. Nat. Tijd. I^ed. Ind. 

 XXVII, 56. A small tree 12-14 feet high, with smooth angular 

 branches ; epidermis desquamating. Leaves 6 in. long, leaflets 1 in. long, 

 •4 in. wide, terminal and 8-9 alternate lateral elliptic obtuse mucronate, 

 glabrous, glaucescent beneath ; rachis subtrigonous, glabrous, thickened 

 at base ; stipules subulate erect. Racemes corymbose, on short peduncles 

 •12 in. long; individual flowers on slender pedicels "5 in. long, 2-bracteo- 

 late above the middle. Calyx *25 in. long, green, campanulate, unequally 

 5-toothed, glabrous externally ; teeth oblong, acute. Corolla much exsert- 

 ed, yellow, purple-veined; standard saborbicular retuse. Ovary \ong- 

 stipitate, glabrous. Pod 6-7-jointed, ultimately becoming blackish, 5-6 

 in. long; individual joints '75-1 in. long, externally marked with 6-8 

 longitudinal more or less parallel ridges. 



Andamans ; very common in thickets near Port Blair ; no doubt 

 introduced. Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



This has the general habit of the common Indian 0. sennoides, of which it is 

 perhaps only a cultivated form ; its pods, however, are much longer and are never 

 muricated. The original description, it should be noted, was made from specimens 

 cultivated at Buitenzorg. 



36. -^SCHYNOMENE Linn. 



Erect herbs or undershrubs. Leaves with very numerous close 



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