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legunte linear, aéute, corisceotis, transversely constricted between 
the seeds: seeds 3-4, ebovate-oblong, transverse: testa thick,. 
hard, bony. 
(1) W. spicata. (Dalz. ) 
4dens. Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. UI. p. 89.—Bomb. flor. p. 
80. 
Engrav. Wight’s Teon. t. 1995. 
Spec. Cuan. Climbing shrub: brarches atid petioles armed 
with recurved prickles: leaves bipiunate: pinne 5—6 pairs? leaf. 
lets 5-6 pair, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, shining above3 spikes: 
terminal: legumes linear, coriaceous, much swollén at the setds and 
constricted between them : flowers starlet and orange-coloured. 
Common in the Concan jungles and on the Ghauts, Travan» 
tore. Flowertg in tre hot season. 
GENUS EXXVIL. MHZONEURUM. 
Diadelphia Decaniiria. Sex: Syst: 
Deri. From Mesos, middle, and Neuron, nerve, alluding to 
the joint of the legume being expanded into a wing. 
Gen. Cizar. Trees or shrubs, more or less armed: leaves ab- 
raptly bipinnated: petioles prickly: flowers racemose or panicled 
sepals unequal, lower one the Jongest and sometimes vaulted: 
petals 5, clawed, unequal: stamens distinct, villous towards the 
base; style curved: legume soméwhat leafy, compressed, ovate- 
oblong, l-telled, few-setded, with a broad leafy margin on the seed= 
bearing suture. 
(1) M. cvcurrarum. (W. $4.) 
dent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 283. 
Syn. Ossalpinia cucullata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 11. p. 358. 
Spec. Cuan. Climbing shrub, armed, very glabrous: pinnae 
3-7 pair: leaflets 4-5 pair, ovate, pointed, coriaceous, shining on 
the upper side: panicles terminal and axillary: lower sepal much 
longer than the others: upper petal deeply 2-lobed, vaulted and 
much incurved: legume linear-oblong, thin, 1-2=seeded: flowers 
greenish-yellow. : 
Common on the Ghauts, _Khandalla, Soonderbunds, Assam. 
Travancote, Flowering in January and February. 
(2) M.ennearuyitum. (W. §& A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 283, annot. 
Syn. Czesalpinia enneaphylla, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 363. 
Spec. Cuan. A climbing armed shrub: pinnae 8-10 pair: 
leaflets 8-10 pair, cuneate-eblong, rounded at both ends, smooth: 
