252 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Pericopsis. 



Branches slender, finely grey-silky. Leaflets 13-21, membranous, oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous, l-l in. long. Racemes copious, short-peduncled, as long as the leaves ; 

 pedicels finely silky, much exceeding the calyx. Calyx - in. Pod pliable, 3-4 

 in. long, 5-6-seeded, glabrous. 



94. PERICOPSIS, Thwaites. 



A tree. Leaves odd-pinnate, with large coriaceous leaflets. Flowers 

 racerned or panicled. Calyx large, cleft to "below the middle, the upper teeth 

 shortest, subconnate. Corolla little exserted ; standard round, refiexed, rather 

 shorter than the obtuse wings and keel. Stamens free, as long as the corolla, 

 recurved at the end ; anthers uniform, versatile. Ovary stalked, few-ovuled ; 

 style long, filiform, recurved at the end, stigma oblique. Pod like that of a 

 Derris, rigid, indehiscent, flattish, strap-shaped, with a narrow wing down each, 

 suture. DISTRIB. A single species, endemic in Ceylon. 



1. P. IWEooniana, Thwaites Enum. 413 ; Sedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 187. Dal- 

 bergia Mooniania, Thwaites Enum. 93. D. lanceolaria, Moon Cat. 51, non 

 Linn. 



CEYLON, southern and central districts, Thwaites, Ferguson. 



A large tree, with slender subglabrous branches. Stipules, bracts and bracteoles 

 minute, caducous ; leaflets 5-7, glabrous, subcoriaceous, conspicuously alternate, 

 broad oblong, subacute, 2-3 in. long. Flowers in sparse axillary racemes and 

 terminal corymbose panicles. Calyx pedicellate, glabrous, \ in., leathery ; teeth 

 lanceolate. Corolla, dark purple, yellowish at the base ; keel-petals slightly cohering. 

 Pod 3-5 in. by 1 in., 4-5 seeded, glabrous, polished. 



95. ORIKOSXA, Jacks. 



Erect trees. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers usually in dense terminal 

 racemes. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, the upper teeth the shortest. 

 Corolla not much exserted ; petals all with short claws, about equal in length ; 

 standard round ; keel-petals and wings oblong, obtuse, the former not connate. 

 Stamens free, much incurved, often exserted when the flower expands ; anthers 

 oblong, versatile. Ovary subsessile ; style long, filiform, circinate at the end, 

 stigma oblique. Pod thick, rigid or rather fleshy, turgid, 2-valved, continuous 

 within, the sutures not winged. Seeds with a bright scarlet aril or testa. 

 DISTKIB. Species above 20, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



* Lea/lets glabrous beneath. Seeds (where known) large. 



1. O. robusta, Wight Ic. t. 245 (Sophora in tab.) ; leaflets 7-11 oblong 

 lanceolate dark green, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels shorter 

 than the calyx, pod oblong with the valves round on the back. O. floribunda, 

 Wall. Cat. 5337. Sophora robusta, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 31. Arillaria robusta, 

 Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. xlii. pt. 2, 71. 



SILHET, Roxburgh, Wallich. PEGU and TENASSERIM, Kurz. 



A large tree, with thick sukate thinly grey-downy branches. Leaflets opposite, 

 3-5 in. long, acute, rounded at the base, rigidly subcoriaceous, dull green beneath, 

 the veins fine, rather raised. Racemes in a large end panicle and also from 

 the axils of the upper leaves, the branches finely grey-downy ; bracts lanceolate, 

 minute, subpersistent ; bracteoles 0. Calyx under in., brown-silky, the teeth as 

 long as the tube. Corolla twice the length of the calyx. Ovary densely silky. Pod 

 oblong, glabrous, bright yellow, rather fleshy, but two-valved, usually 1 -seeded, 2-2 

 in. long, sometimes 2-seeded. Seeds oblong, l in. long, ' enveloped in a complete 

 thick fleshy scarlet aril.' Kurz. 



