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common petioles armed with recurved: prickles underneath, with a 
pais at the insertion of the pinnae and sometimes a single straight 
one on the upper side between them: panicles terminal : legume. 
broad-lanceolate, winged on. the back, 5—G-seeded : flowers yellow, 
fragrant. 
Eastern, parts of Bengal. Flowering in the. eold season. 
GENUS LXXVHI PTEROLOBIUM. 
Decandria Monogynia. Sez: Syat: 
Deriv. From Pteron, a wing, and Lobos, a pod, in allusion to 
the winged legumes. 
Gen, Cuar. Trees or large climbing shrubs, armed with haoked 
prickles: leaves bipinnated: flowers racemose :, calyx 5-partite ; 
‘ segments deciduous, petaloid, about the. length of ‘the corolJa, the. 
“Jower one somewhat vaulted: petals 5, wnequal,, clawed: stamens. 
distinct, ascending: filaments. bearded below the middle» style. 
glabrous: stigma dilated, covered with a few erect hairs: legume. 
sessile, 1-celled, ending obliquely on the upper side in an oblong. 
membxanous striated wing: seed solitary. 
(hk) P. racerans. (Brown. ); 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 283. 
Syn. Cesalpinia lacerans, Roxb. fl. Ind. UL. p. 367.-—@: ligu~ 
lata, Heyne.—Reichardia hexapetala, Roth. Dea. ee II. p, 484. 
Engree. Waght’s Icon. t. 196. 
Spec, Cuan. Climbing shrub: pinnae 4-8 pair: leaflets 4-8 
pair, oval, obtuse or emarginate = petioles with usually two recurv- 
éd prickles on the under side between each pair of pinnz, and one 
incurved one on the wpper: racemes lax, in the axils of the upper 
leaves only : pedicels slender: flowers middle-sized, white, tinged 
with red : calyx coloured, and as large as the corolla. 
Hills of Goromandel. Common in the. Circars. Flowering in, 
the wet season. 
GENUS LXXIX. HARDWICKIA. 
Decandria Momogynmia. Sex: Syst,: . 
Deriv. Named in honor of Majoz-General Hardwick, formerly 
of the Bengal Army. 
Gen, Cuan. Sepals 4-5, ovate, concave, equal, spreading, 
scarcely coherent at the base: corolla none :. stamens distinct, in- 
serted into the bottom of the calyx, alternately shorter: anthers, 
ovate, asain style short; stigma large, peltate: legume lan- 
ceolate, 1-celled, opening at the apex: seed solitary, in the apex of 
os legume, cuneate, thin and somewhat membranaccous on one 
edge. 
