388 FLORA OF MADRAS. [D. 



5. DERRIS BREVIPES, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 244. 



W. Ghats, from the Nilgiris to the Hills of Travancore, 

 up to 5,000 ft., common. 



A large climbing shrub with red flowers, the pods very" 

 little known. 



6. DERRIS HEYNEANA, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 244. 



W. Ghats, Hills of Travancore, up to 5,000 ft. 



A large climber with small rose-red flowers in large 



panicles. 



7. DERRIS EUALATA, Bedd. Ic. 42, t. 186, doubtfully of F. B. I. 

 ii. 244. D. platyptera, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 245. 



W. Ghats and W. Coast, from S. Canara and Coorg to 



Travancore, at low levels. 



A very large climbing shrub, with rather large white 



flowers and broadly - winged flat pods. The flowers 



solitary and not fascicled on the rhachis, the diadelphous 



stamens and reticulate leaves easily characterize this 



species. 



57. Sophora, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves imparipimiate ; leaflets opposite or 

 subopposite; stipules lanceolate, deciduous; stipels setaceous 

 or 0. Flowers showy, in terminal racemes or panicles ; bracts 

 linear, caducous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube widely canipanulate, 

 oblique at mouth ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla much exserted, 

 the petals clawed ; standard oblong obovate or orbicular ; wings 

 oblong, obtuse, sagittate or hastate above the claw ; keel petals 

 obtuse, cohering, sometimes with a mucro. Stamens 10, free; 

 anthers versatile. Ovary stipitate, many-ovuled ; style incurved; 

 stigma terminal, minute. Pod moniliform, dehiscent or inde- 

 hiscent, the joints turgid, sometimes with 4 wings. Seeds obovoid 

 or globose ; strophiole 0. 



Pod not winged ; standard narrow ; attenuate into a broad claw : 

 Pod velvety, 1-6-seeded, not much constricted between the seeds ; 

 standard obovate ; leaflets more than 21, close, elliptic-oblong-, sub- 

 acute, mucronate, '75-1-25 in. long, densely golden-silky beneath; 



seeds white 1. glauca. 



Pod pubescent, 2-4-seeded, much constricted between the seeds ; 

 standard oblong; leaflets 11-15, distant, lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 2-3 in. long, slightly brown silky beneath ; seeds red 2. Wightii. 



