244 L. LEGUMiNOsa;. (J. G. Baker.) [Derm. 



4-6 in. long, usually twice as long as broad, obtuse or pointed. Racemes -1 ft. long, 

 obtuse, very lax, with nodes copiously produced into branchlats, the axis and pedicels 

 densely clothed with brown pubescence ; pedicels - in.. Calyx very broad, densely silky. 

 Corolla bright red, | in. long ; blade of standard round, ^ | in. broad. Pod 2-3 in. by 

 f in., 1-3-seeded, thin, flat, with raised sutures, the upper one with a narrow distinct 

 wwig. 



** Pod more or less distinctly winged down both sutures (Dipteroderris, 

 Benth.) 



13. D. brevipes, Baker ; leaflets 5-7 glabrous obovate-oblong middle- 

 sized acute or subobtuse, racemes copiously panicled with densely pubescent 

 branches, pedicels shorter than the calyx, corolla middle-sized, pod persistently 

 silky the lower wing obscure. Derris Heyneana, var. brevipes, Benth in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 110. 



CONCAN, Stocks* NILGHIRIS, Hohenacker. MYSORE, Cleghorn. 



Branches and leaves on both surfaces glabrous. Leaflets moderately firm, 2-3 in. long, 

 rounded at the base, obtuse or acute, the upper surface rather glossy, the veins below 

 little raised, the colour grey-green. Flowers crowded on the short branchlets of 

 copious ample axillary panicles, which are as long as the leaves, with ascending 

 branches, densely clothed with short brown pubescence. Calyx under in., densely 

 silky. Corolla red, 3 times the length of the calyx ; standard obovate, not callose. 

 Pod broad, oblong, 1-seeded. 1-1 in. by 1 in., persistently brown-silky, with a narrow 

 wing down the upper and a very obscure one down the lower suture. 



VAR. coriacea, Benth. ; leaflets much thicker and very rigid glossy above, flowers 

 nearly sessile. Nilghiris, Hohenacker, 1598. 



14. D. eualata, Bedd. Ic. PI Ind. Or. 42, t. 186; leaflets 7-9 oblong 

 middle-sized obtusely pointed, racemes copiously panicled with densely pubes- 

 cent branches, pedicels as long as the calyx, corolla middle-sized, pod glabrous, 

 lower wing as broad as upper. 



WESTERN PENINSITLA ; common in plains of South Canara and Malabar, and at the 

 foot of the Coorg ghauts, Beddome. 



A gigantic creeper, with brown silky branchlets. Leaflets subcoriaceous, glabrous, 

 2-3 in- long, the veinlets little raised. Flowers in axillary racemes and an ample 

 panicle often 1 ft. long at the end of the branches ; pedicels fascicled, ^- in. Calyx 

 ^ in., densely brown-silky. Corolla reddish, scarce in. ; standard not callose. Pod 

 ligulate, thin, 4-5 in. by 1-1 in., 1-3-seeded, each wing % in.' broad. 



15. I>. Heyneana, Benth. PL Jungh. i. 252 ; leaflets 5 glabrous obo- 

 vate-oblong middle-sized subobtuse, racemes copiously panicled with obscurely 

 grey-downy branches, pedicels as long or longer than the calyx, corolla small, 

 pod glabrous with a distinct wing down the lower suture. Benth. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 110; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 77. Pongamia Heyneana, 

 Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5916. 



MYSORE, Heyne. CONCAN, Stocks, Law. 



A. slender climber, glabrous in all its parts,' except the branches of the panicle,, 

 Leaflets moderately firm, grey-green, obtusely pointed, broadly rounded at the base, 

 2-4 in. long, the veins immersed. Panicles copious, axillary, as long as the leaves, 

 with numerous very slender ascending branches, with the subdistant nodes produced 

 into short branchlets ; pedicels ^-^ in. Calyx i in., subglabrous^ Corolla rose-red, 

 i_i in. ; blade of standard roundish. Pod oblong or ligulate, 1-3-seeded, i|-4 in. by 

 2-1 in., thin, firm, rather glossy and veined, the wing of the upper suture ^- in. 

 broad, of the lower much narrower. 



VAR. paniculata ; leaflets 5-7 considerably smaller and especially narrower, pa- 

 nicles a foot long very lax with branches clothed with fine silky pubescence, pedicels 



