ORMOSIA TBAVANCORICA. (Nat. ord. Leguminosee ; Sub-ord, Papilionacese ; Tribe Sophorese.) 



URMOSIA, (Jacks.) Gen. PI. 1, p. 556.— Calyx campanulate 5 cleft, or the 2 upper lobes often united into one, standard broad, keel petals 

 not longer free, stamens free, often very unequal, and one sometimes without any anther, [ovary sessile or nearly so, with two or few ovules, style rolled 

 inwards at the top with a lateral stigma, pod flattened 2-4 seeded, opening in two thickly coriaceous or woody valves, seeds shining scarlet or scarlet and black, 

 rarely brown-red, the radicle very short ; trees, leaves pinnate, the leaflets usually opposite with a terminal odd one, flowers in terminal panicles, or rarely 

 in simple racemes in the upper axils. 



ORMOSIA TRAVANCOMC A . (Bedd.) A tree, young parts fulvo-tomentose, leaves glabrous, 8-14 inches long by 

 4-7 broad, leaflets about 5-6 pairs with, a terminal one oblong to elliptic with, acute or obtuse point at the apex 2-6 inches long by 

 f to 2 inches broad, petioles \ to \ an inch long, panicles in the upper axils shorter than the leaves, fulvo-tomentose as is the calyx and 

 bracteoles, many flowered, flowers very shortly peduncled in pairs along their branches, legume very hard woody, 2-2 \ inches long by 

 1J broad, 1-2 seeded, seed bright scarlet. 



A middling sized tree. — Travancore and South Tinnevelly Hills (up to 3,500 feet), S. Canara ghats, and probably elsewhere on ths 

 Western Ghats of our Presidency. The timber appears to be remarkably good, but at present is almost unknown. 



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