244 L. EEGTJMiHOsa. (J. G. Baker.) [Berris. 



4—6 in. long, usually twice a.s long a,s broad, obtuse or pointed. Bacemes J-1 ft. long, 

 obtuse, very lax, with nodes copiously produced into branchlets, the axis and pedicels 

 densely clothed with brown pubescence ; pedicels ^^ in. Calyx very broad, densely silky. 

 Corolla bright red, | in. long ; blade of standard round, ^-| in. broad. Pod 2-3 in. by 

 f in., 1-3-seeded, thin, flat, with raised sutures, the upper one with a narrow distinct 

 wing. 



** Pod more or less distinctly wtnged down both sutures (Dipteroderris, 

 Benth.) 



13. D. brevipes, Baker ; leaflets 5-7 glabrous obovate-oblong middle- 

 sized acute or subobtuse, racemes copiously panicled witli densely pubescent 

 branches, pedicels shorter than the calyx, coroUa middle-sized, pod persistently 

 silky the lower wing obscure. Derris Heyneana, var. brevipes, Benth in Joum. 

 lAnn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 110. 



CoNCAN, Stocks. NitGHiBis, Hohenocknr . Mtsobk, Cleghom. 



Branches and leaves on both surfaces glabrous. Leaflets moderately firm, 2-3 in. long, 

 rounded at the base, obtuse or acute, the upper surface rather glossy, the veins below 

 little raised, the colour grey-green. Flowers crowded on the short branchlets of 

 copious ample axillary panicles, which are as long as the leaves, with ascending 

 branches, densely clothed with short brown pubescence* Calyx under ^ in., densely 

 silky. Corolla red, 3 times the length of the calyx ; standard obovate, not callose. 

 Fod broad, oblong, J-seeded. lJ-1^ in. by 1 in., persistently brown-silky, with a narrow 

 wing down the upper and a very obscure one down the lower suture. 



Vae. coriacea, Benth. ; leaflets much thicker and very rigid glossy above, flowers 

 nearly sessile. — ^Nilghiris, Hohenacker, 1598. 



14. D. eualata, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 42, t. 186; leaflets 7-9 oblong 

 middle-sized obtusely pointed, racemes copiously panicled with densely pubes- 

 cent branches, pedicels as long as the calyx, corolla middle-sized, pod glabrous, 

 lower wing as broad as upper. 



Western Peninsttla ; common in plains of South Oanara and Malabar, and at the 

 foot of the Coorg ghauts, Beddome. 



A gigantic creeper, witli brown silky branchlets. Leaflets subcoriaceous, glabrous, 

 2-3 in, long, the veinlets little raised. Fl/mers in axillary racemes and an ample 

 panicle often 1 ft. long at the end of the branches ; pedicels fascicled, ^-^ in. Calyx 

 ^-^ in., densely brown-silky. Corolla reddish, scarce ^ in. ; standard not caUose. Pod 

 ligulate, thin, 4-5 in. by 1-lJ in., 1-3-seeded, each wing ^ in. broad. 



15. D. Heyneana, Benth. PI. Jungh. i. 252 ; leaflets 5 glabrous obo- 

 vate-oblong middle-sized subobtuse, racemes copiously panicled with obscurely 

 grey-downy branches, pedicels as long or longer than the calyx, corolla small, 

 pod glabrous with a distinct wing down the lower suture. Benth. in Jawrn. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 110 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 77. Pongamia Heyneana, 

 Grah. in Wall. CM. 5916. 



Mtsoeb, fleyme. Concan, Stocks, Law. 



A slender climber, glabrous in all its parts, except the branches of the panicle, 

 ieo^eis moderately firm, grey-green, obtusely pointed, broadly rounded at the base, 

 2-4 in. long, the veins immersed. Panicles copious, axillary, as long as the leaves, 

 with numerous very slender ascending branches, with the subdistant nodes produced 

 into short branchlets ; pedicels A_i in. Calyx i in., subglabrous. Corolla rose-red, 

 i-^ in. ; blade of standard roundish. Pod oblong or ligulate, 1-3-seeded, l^-i in. by 

 |-i in., thin, firm, rather glossy and veined, the wing of the upper suture ^-^ in. 

 broad, of the lower much narrower. 



Vab. panicnlata ; leaflets 5-7 considerably smaller and especially narrower, pa- 

 nicles a foot long very lax with branches clotied with fine silky pubescence, pedicel ' 



