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Awning reflected, hearted, downy beneath 5 some- 

 times pointed. 



Wings lanced, ascending, narrower than the keel. 



Keel as long as the wings, two - parted below r , half- 

 mooned, ascending. 



St am. Filaments nine and one, ascending, regularly 

 curved. Anthers linear, erect. 



Pi st. Germ pedicelled, oblongish, downy. 



Style awled, about as long as the stamens. Stigma 

 small, minutely cleft. 



Per. Legume pedicelled, oblong, compressed, de- 

 pending. 



Seed one, toward the apex of the pericarp flat, 

 smooth, oval-roundish. 



Flowers raceme-fascicled, large, red, or French scarlet, 



, silvered with down. 



Leaves three'd, petioled ; leaflets entire, stipuled, 

 large, rhomboidal ; the lateral ones unequally 

 divided ; the terminal one larger, equally bis- 

 sected, brightly verdant. A perfect description of 

 the arborescent and the twining Pala'sa has been 

 exhibited in the last volume, with a full account 

 of its beautiful red gum\ but the same plant is 

 here shortly described from the life, because few 

 trees are considered by the Hindus as more venera- 

 ble and holy. The Palasa is named with honour 

 in the Fedas, in the laws of Menu, and in Sanscrit 

 poems, both sacred and popular; it gave its 

 name to the memorable plain called Plassey by the 

 vulgar, but properly Pala'si; and, on every ac- 

 count, it must be hoped that this noble plant will 



retain 



