1897.] D. Pram — Some additional Leguminosee. 467 



9. Sophora mollis Grah. 



Var. Duthiei ; pods wingless. 



Chttral ; Markanda, 5000 feet, Duthie 16048 ! 

 A very interesting form, differing apparently in no way from ordinary S. mollis 

 except in the absence of wings to the pods. Its existence rather effectively disposes 

 of the attempt sometimes made to sustain, as a genus apart from Sophora, the 

 section to which the species belongs. 



96. Sophora Gtriffjthii Stocks in Hook. Journ. iv. 147 ; flowers 

 smaller, developed before the leaves in short crowded racemes, pods 

 silky. Keyserlingia Griffithii, Boiss. Flor. Orient, ii. 630. 



British Belcchistan ; Quetta, etc., Griffith I Stocks ! Rind! Hamilton ! 

 Duke ! Lace ! Duthie ! Suleiman Range ; Fort Monro, Sanders ! Distrib. 

 Throughout Beluchistan and Afghanistan. 



A low spineless shrub, all parts densely shortly hoary-pubescent. Leaves 4-8 in. 

 long, leaflets 21-41, rigid, adpressed silvery, pubescent beneath, ovate or obovate, 

 *25-'45 in. long, racemes few-fld., 1*5-2 in. long, pedicels shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx '2 in. long, very oblique, densely silky, teeth triangular obtuse. Corolla yellow, 

 *5 in. long. Pod finely persistently silky, the joints with 4 faint longitudinal ridges. 



This is so closely related to 8. mollis that there are some stages in which it is 

 difficult to distinguish the two ; the rather shorter racemes with fewer flowers and 

 the shorter pedicels being then the chief distinguishing marks. The leaflets are, how- 

 ever, almost always more numerous, and when full-grown are much smaller, remain- 

 ing too, silvery-hairy beneath. But while, with Boissier, placing this in Keyserlingia 

 (=Sophora § Edwardsia), the writer would point out that it might with almost as 

 great propriety be placed in Eusophora, since even ripe pods have only 4 faint 

 crenated ridges to represent the wings on the pods of S. mollis. 



93. ORMOSIA Jacks. 



26. Ormosia scandens Pram, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 147; 

 scandent, leaflets 5-7, ovate or obovate, oblong, shortly acuminate, dark- 

 green, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels shorter than calyx. 



Perak ; Larut, Kunstler 3560 ! 



A long climber sometimes reaching 100 feet, with glabrous branches. Leaflets 

 coriaceous 6-9 in. long, acuminate, rounded at base, finely veined. Racemes in a 

 terminal panicle reaching one foot in length, branches very finely grey-silky, bracts 

 small, bracteoles subulate persistent. Calyx 25 in., grey-silky, three lower teeth 

 deltoid as long as tube, two upper subconnate in a bifid lip. Corolla '35 in., white 

 with reddish tinge, standard '25 in. across. Ovary with a line of hairs along upper 

 suture, elsewhere glabrous ; ovules 3. Pod unknown. 



A very distinct species, differing much from the others by its scandent habit. 



3. Ormosia macrodisca Bah. 



Add to localities : — Singapore ; Ridley ! 



4. Ormosia glauca Wall. 



Add to localities : — Sikkim ; Sivoke Hills, 2500 feet, Gamble 7555 ! 

 Add to description of F, B. I. : — Pod hard, thick, 2-3 in. long, 

 J. II. 59 



