Priotropis.|] — LEGUMINOSE: 363 
in. long, abruptly pinnate and bristly terminated, glaucous-green ; 
leaflets in 7-18 pairs, oblong to linear-oblong, blunt, with or with- 
out a minute mucro, 3-2 rarely 1 in. long, on a very short thin 
petiolule or almost sessile, entire, membranous; flowers rather 
small, yellow or yellow and purple motted, or ihe standard purple 
outside, on capilla =4 ong edicels, forming a nodding, 
slender, loose raceme in the axils of the leaves and shorter than 
them ; bracts and bractlets very deciduous ; calyx broader than ones 
about 2-3 lin. deep, glabrous, conspicuously 5-nerved, the 
broad, acute ; standard nearly 4 an in. long, very broad and aoa 
keel much incurved, broad, blunt, with an acute basal angle; ds 
narrow-linear and often curved, 4-8 in. long, 1$-2 lin. broad, sharply 
peaked. glabrous, convex and often somewhat tumid ; seeds pale- 
uf Has eens cultivated with the natives all over Burma.—Fl. Fr. Jan.- 
ay. —SS—= 
REMARKS —Wood white, soft, light, fibrous, but rather close-grained. Said 
to furnish the best charcoal for gunpowde x; good for children’s toys, éte. 
PRIOTROPIS, WA. 
Calyx-lobes almost equal, free. Standard almost orbicular, with 
2 callosities at the short claw, the wings obovate, shorter than the 
standard, the keel beaked. Stamens all united in a sheath slit on 
the back ; anthers dimorphous, the small versatile ones alternating 
with the long basifix ones. Ovary stalked, with many ovules, the 
style much incurved, longitudinally bearded along the inner side 
towards the terminal stigma. Pod stalked, oblong, much com- 
pressed, 2-valved, continuous within. Seeds on filiform funicles,— 
Shrubs, with 3-foliolate leaves and yellow racemose flowers. 
LP, cytisoides, Wa. —An erect, ene shrub, 4 to 6 ft. 
high, the b h appr ed pubescent ; stipules 
minute, subulate ; leaves 3-foliolate, on an “cn 14 in. long petiole ; 
» leaflets more or less lanceo late, acute at the base, on a very short 
pubescent petiolule, acuminate or acute with a mucro, 1-2 in. long, 
stirs, eqearaieectes —— above, beneath glaucescent and 
Cig a flowers mi abe Fe , 
min: te ; cals much larger; pods much Ba obliquely 
oblong, at at the unequal base contracted in a slender about 3 lin. 
long stalk, stylose-acuminate, glabrous, about 1-1} in. long, con- 
taining 1.3 pale-brown glossy s seeds. 
Has.—Ava hills and Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. « 
