■96 LegumillOSCZ. [Pericopszs. 



Endemic. 



Discovered by Thwaites in 1857. A pretty plant, now much grown in 

 Ceylon gardens. 



3. S. zeylanica, Trim. [Plate XXX.] 



S. heptaphylla, Arn. Pug. 10 (non L.) ; Thw. Enum. 94 ; Trim. Syst. 

 Cat. 27. C. P. 570. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 250. (S. hefitaphylla.) 



A much-branched bush 10-12 ft. high, young branches finely 

 tomentose with fulvous hair, buds densely brown-velvety; 1. 

 numerous, spreading, shortly stalked, rachis 4-6 in., narrowly 

 furrowed above, fulvous-tomentose, stip. minute, acicular, lflts. 

 7-1 1 (3-5 pair and end one), often alternate, \\-2\ in., ovate- 

 oval, acuminate, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, shining above, 

 dull and paler beneath; fl. rather small, numerous, articulated 

 on divaricate pilose ped. about as long as cal., racemes 4-6 in., 

 lax, spreading; cal. finely fulvous-pilose, funnel-shaped and 

 thickened at base, above expanding into broadly cup-shaped 

 limb, obliquely truncate, segm. very small, tooth-like; pod 

 1J-2 in., tapering to short stalk, strongly beaked, much 

 constricted bet. joints, slightly compressed, thin, veiny, 

 glabrous when mature, when young densely covered with 

 brown silk ; seeds 1 or 2, | in., broadly ovoid, bright dark red. 



Montane zone, 4000-7000 ft. ; rare. Hunasgiriya (Thwaites) ; about 

 Nuwara Eliya. Fl. Jan., Feb.; white. 



Endemic. The locality ' China ' given in Fl. B. Ind. is an error, the 

 plant there being a species of Cladrastis (see Hemsley in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxiii. 201). 



Walker-Arnott (1. c.) seems to have been the first to apply Linnaeus' 

 name S. hefitaphylla to this montane plant. The name belongs to Derris 

 sinuata (q. v.) : Hermann, of course, had no opportunity of collecting 

 any hill species. In Fl. B. Ind. the flowers are erroneously described 

 as yellow. 



S. Wightii, Baker, of the Nilgiri Hills seems to differ chiefly in its 

 much larger flowers ; this is S. hefitaphylla, Wight (non Arn.), figured 

 in Ic. t. 1155. 



47. PERXCOPSXS, Thw. 



A large tree, 1. pinnate with large alternate lflts., fl. large, 

 in terminal and axillary panicles; cal. campanulate, attenuated 

 below, segm. deeply cut, the upper ones connate ; pet. nearly 

 equal, keel-pet. slightly coherent ; stam. 10, quite free; stigma 

 small, oblique ; pod large oblong, compressed, coriaceous, 

 indehiscent, few-seeded ; seed compressed, with a very small 

 hilum. — Monotypic and endemic. 



