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Linn. Seven-leaved Bomb ax. 



59. S'an'a: 



Syn. S'anapushpicd, Ghant'drava, 



Vulg. San 9 pronounced Sun, 



Linn. Rushy Crotalaria. 



Cal. Perianth one -leaved, villous, permanent; 

 short below, gibbous on both sides, with minute 

 linear tracts. Upper teeth two, lanced, pressing 

 the banner ; lower tooth, boat-form, concave, 

 two-gashed in the middle, cohering above and be- 

 low, sheathing the keel, rather shorter than it; 

 pointed, 



Cor. Boat-form, 



Banner broad, large, acute, rather hearted, with 

 two dark callosities at the base, and with com- 

 pressed sides, mostly involving the other parts : 

 a dark line from base to point. 



Wings inverse-egg-oblong, with dark callous bodies 

 at their axils, two thirds of the banner in length. 



Keel flattened at the point, nearly closed all round to 

 include the fructification ; very gibbous below, to 

 receive the germ. 



Stam. Filaments ten, coalesced, cleft behind, two- 

 parted below ; alternately short with linear furrowed 

 erect, and long with roundish anthers. 



Pi st. Germ rather awled, fiat, villous, at a right 

 angle with the ascending, cylindric, downy Style. 

 Stigma pubescent^ concave, open, somewhat lip- 

 ped. 



Per. Legume pedicelled, short, velvety, turgid, 

 one-celled, two-valved. 



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