Derris. ] LEGUMINOSE. 339 
pubescent ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, about: } a foot long; leaflets in 
6-10 pairs, oblong or elliptical to ovate-oblong, a little unequal, blunt 
or nearly so, mucronate, on a 3 lin. long slender petiolule, 1-14 
in. long, entire, membranous, beneath glaucous and shortly appressed 
pubescent ; flowers rather small, white, on capillary 2-3 lin. long 
puberulous pedicels, solitary or few together, forming a slightly 
puberulous long axillary raceme ; calyx ample, puberulous, about a 
line deep ; corolla glabrous, about 3 lin. long; ovary silky pubes- 
cent ; s linear-lanceolate, tapering in a very short stalk, in- 
curved-acute, 1-4-seeded, flat, with a very narrow wing along the 
outer suture, brown, indistinctly appressed puberulous, }-2 in. long. 
Has.—Frequent in the upper and lower mixed forests of Pegu.—Fl. Apr.— 
s.—1.—SS.=AllL—_ SiS. i ae : 
Remarxs.~—-Wood red-brown, hard and close-grained, of a short coarse fibre, 
soon attacked by xylophages. 
2. D. scandens, Bth. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 240; Brand. For. Fi. 
154.— Mee-kyoung-nway.—A large evergreen scandent shrub, the 
young parts pubescent; bark dark brown, white-lenticellate ; leaves 
3-3 ft. long, unpaired-pinnate, the rachis glabrous or puberulous ; 
leaflets in 4-6 pairs, opposite or irregularly alternate, from oblong 
to oval-oblong, on a glabrescent or villous petiolule }-] lin. long, 
narrowed at the apex and notched, 14 to 24 im. long, entire, charta- 
ceous, almost glabrous or more or less puberulous beneath ; flowers 
rather small, pale rose-coloured, fragrant, on filiform 2-4 lin. long 
puberulous or pubescent pedicels, elustered by 3-6 and forming an 
3-1 ft. lone puberulous or rusty villous raceme in the axils of the 
leaves ; calyx minutely rusty pubescent, wide, about 1} lin. deep ; 
corolla 3-4 lin. long, the wings a little hairy; ovary pilose ;_pods 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-4-seeded, flat, sessile, 1-3 in. long, 
glabrous or minutely puberulous, very narrowly winged along the 
outer suture only 
Has —Frequent all over Burma, from Cherngony, Prome, and Martaban 
down to Tenasserim and the Andamans, chiefly in alluvial lands in the tidal and 
—s a also entering the savannah forests.—Fl. June-July; Fr. C.S. 
8: = ; 
3. D. uliginosa, Bth.—A large evergreen scandent shrub, all 
parts quite glabrous; leaves unpaired-pinnate, up to } ft. long, 
glabrous; leaflets ovate to ovate-oblong, in 1-3 pairs, on a 2 lin. 
long petiolule, bluntish acuminate, 14-24 in. long, entire, charta- 
ceous ; flowers middling-sized, pale rose-coloured, on slender 1-2 
lin. long pedicels, racemulose or clustered, forming a long glabrous 
raceme in the axils of the leaves; calyx wide, about a line deep, 
glabrous ; corolla glabrous, about 4 lin. long; ovary slightly pubes~ 
cent; pods obliquely oval or almost orbicular, rounded with a 
