252 L. LEGUMINOSJ!. (J. G. Baker.) \_Pericopsit. 



Branches slender, finely grey-silky. Leaflets 13-iJl, membranous, oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous, 1-1 J in. long. Bacemes copious, short-peduncled, as long as the leaves ; 

 pedicels finely silky, much exceeding the calyx. Calyx ^-J in. Pod pliable, 3-4 

 in. long, 5-6-seeded, glabrous. 



94. FERXCOFSXS, Thwaites. 



A tree. Leaves odd-pinnate, with large coriaceous leaflets. Flowers 

 racemed or panicled. Calyx large, cleft to Wow the middle, the upper teeth 

 shortest, suDconnate. Corolla little exserted ; standard round, reflexed, rather 

 shorter than the obtuse wings and keel. Stamens free, as long as the corolla, 

 recurved at the end ; anthers uniform, versatile. Ovary stalied, few-ovuled ; 

 style long, filiform, recurved at the end, stigma oblique. Pod like that Of a 

 i)ei-ris, rigid, indeluscent, flattish, strap-shaped, with a narrow wing down each 

 suture.^— DiSTEiB. A single species, endemic in Ceylon. 



1. P. Itlooniana, Thwaites JSnum. 413 ; Sedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 187. Dal- 

 hergia Mooniania, Thwaites Enum. 93. D. lanceolaria. Moon Cat. 51, rum 

 linn. 



Cetlon, southern and central districts, Thwaites, Fergiison. 



A large tree, with slender sabglabrous branches. Stipules, bracts and bracteoles 

 minute, caducous ; leaflets .5-7, glabrous, subcoriaceous, conspicuously alternate, 

 broad oblong, subacute, 2-3 in. long. Flowers in sparse axillary racemes and 

 terminal corymbose panicles. Cahix pedicellate, glabrous, J in., leathery; teeth 

 lanceolate. Corolla dark purple, yellowish at the base ; keel-petals slightly cohering. 

 Pod 3-5 in. by 1 in., 4-5 seeded, glabrous, polished. 



96. ORiaOSXA, Jacks. 



Erect trees. Leaves odd-pinnate. Floivers usually in dense terminal 

 racemes. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, the upper teeth the shortest. 

 Corolla not much exserted ; petals all with short claws, about equal in length ; 

 standard round ; keel-petals and wings oblong, obtuse, the former not connate. 

 Stamens free, much incm-ved, often exserted when the flower expands ; anthers 

 oblong, versatile. Chary subsessUe ; style long, filiform, circinate at the end, 

 stigma oblique. Pod thick, rigid or rather fleshy, turgid, 2-valved, continuous 

 within, the sutures not winged. Seeds with a bright scarlet aril or testa. — 

 DisiEiB. Species above 20, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



* Leaflets glabrous beneath. Seeds (where known) large. 



1. O. robusta, Wight le. t. 245 (Sophora in tab.) ; leaflets 7-11 oblong 

 lanceolate ' dark green, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels shorter 

 than the calyx, pod oblong vrith the valves round on the back. 0. floribunda. 

 Wall. Cat. 6337. Sophora robusta, Poxb. Sort. Peng. 31. Arillaria robusta, 

 Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Peng. vol. xlii. pt. 2, 71. 



SiLHET, Roxburgh, Wallich. Pegu and TBifASSEHof, Kurz. 



A large tree, with thick sulcate thinly grey-downy branches. Leaflets opposite, 

 3-5 in. long, acute, rounded at the base, xigidly subcoriaceous, dull green beneath, 

 the veins fine, rather raised. Racemes in a large end panicle and also from 

 the axils of the upper leaves, the branches finely grey-downy; bracts lanceolate, 

 minute, subpersistent ; bracteoles 0. Calyx under \ in., brown-silky, the teeth as 

 long as the tube. Corolla twice the length of the calyx. Ovary densely silky. Pod 

 oblong, glabrous, bright yellow, rather fleshy, but two-valved, usually 1 -seeded, 2-2^ 

 in. long, sometimes 2-seeded. Seeds oblong, 1^ in. long, ' enveloped in a complete 

 thick fleshy scarlet arU.' — Kurz. 



