390 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Calpurnia. 



Denkincottah Hills of Salem, up to 5,000 ft. ; W. Ghats, in 

 the Courtallum Hills of Tinnevelly. 



A large showy shrub with yellow flowers, leaves with many 

 ovate oblong leaflets 1-1*5 in. long, and flat pods about 3 in. 

 long and '5 in. broad with 3-6 seeds. 



59. Ormosia, Jacks. 



Erect trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; stipules 

 small ; stipels usually 0. Flowers in terminal panicles or in 

 racemes from upper leaf -axils ; bracts small ; bracteoles minute, 

 linear. Calyx-tube shortly campanulate, deeply cleft, the upper 

 teeth the shortest. Corolla little exserted, the petals with short 

 claws ; standard suborbicular ; wings oblong, often more or less 

 sagittate at base ; keel petals free, somewhat incurved. Stamens 

 10, free, unequal; anthers versatile. Ovary subsessile, 2-many- 

 ovuled ; style subulate, involute ; stigma oblique. Pod thick, 

 often woody, oblong or elongate, dehiscent, not winged. Seeds 

 obovate or oblong, shining, the testa scarlet or brown-red, some- 

 times arillate. 



ORMOSIA TRAVANCORICA, Bedd. Fl. t. 45 ; F. B. I. ii. 253. 

 W. Ghats, from S. Canara and Mysore to the Anamalais and 

 the Hills of Travancore and Tinnevelly, up to 3,000 ft., in 

 evergreen forests, scattered and not common. 

 A lofty tree with stem unbranched for a considerable height, 

 grey smooth bark and white moderately hard wood. The 

 flowers are purple striped with green, the pod red with one 

 red seed and the leaves have 7-9 ovate obtusely cuspidate 

 coriaceous leaflets 2-3 in. long. Yern. Tarn., Mai. Malei 

 manchadi. 



Virgilia capensis, Lam., is a pretty Cape shrub with silvery 

 leaves and pinkish flowers, cultivated in gardens on the Nilgiri 

 Hills. 



