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longas apice bifidas connatse. Eacemi breves 1^ poll, lougi 3-4-flori ; pedicelli ^ poll 

 longi ; bracteolee obsoletse. Flores mox decidui. Calyx £ poll, longus extus sericeus, lobis 

 subaequalibus apice setosis tubo parum longioribus. Corolla puniceo-purpurea ; vexillum 

 £ poll, longum subrotundatum carina triente brevior. Ovarium biovulatum sericeum ;. 

 stylus filiformis puberulus ovario dimidio longior. Zegumen ignotum. 



Soeotra. On sandy spots near the sea at Galonsir, and on Kadhab plain. 

 B.C.S. nn. 103, 338. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



A very distinct species. Most members of the genus are unifoliolate, and 

 from the trifoliolate species, which are T. lappacea, DC. (Prod. ii. 339), from 

 Nubia, T. Stocksii, Boiss. (Flor. Orient, ii. 509), from Beloochistan, and T. 

 Spartea, DC. {loc. cit.), a Persian plant, the Socotran form is readily distinguished 

 by its dense silvery silky covering, and by its large persistent not scarious 

 stipules. We do not know the fruit of our plant, and a first glance might 

 suggest its being an Indigofera, for like plants of that genus it contains a 

 quantity of brilliantly coloured purple juice, easily expressed on squeezing the 

 leaves ; but it wants the hairs of Indigofera, and the stamens are not gland - 

 tipped. 



11. ORMOCAKPUM. 



Ormocarjoicm, Beauv. Flor. d'Ow. et Ben. i. 95, t. 58 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL i. 515. 



A small genus of, often glutinous, shrubs, one species of which is spread in 

 Asia and Africa, three are peculiar to tropical Africa, two are Mexican, one is 

 found in Australia, and one is Socotran. 



O. cseruleum, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xi. (1882), 511. Tab. XX. 



Fruticosum; foliis imparipinnatis subsessilibus, foliolis 5-7 crassis glabris medio subtus 

 porpbyreo puberulo excepto; racemis brevibus paucifloris, pedicellis tenuibus sub floribus 

 bibracteolatis; calyce glabro ; corolla caerulea. 



Frutex 10-pedalis ramis glabrescentibus erectis lignosis nunc paucifoliosis nunc spinosis angu- 

 latis et rugosis, juvenilibus terminalibus quadrangulatis elongatis puberulis, lateralibus 

 ssepe contractis. Folia imparipinnata \ poll, longa subsessilia v. brevissime petiolata 

 (forsan petiolo ^ poll, longo subtiliter puberulo) mox decidua ad ramos laterales conferta ; 

 foliola 5-7 sessilia v. subsessilia \— £ poll, longa \ poll, lata v. mulfco minora oblongo- 

 elliptica v. obovata v. obcuneata crassa, supra glabra glanduloso-punctulata cum jugo 

 medio caualiculato sursum evanescente, infra per aream mediam similem porpbyreo-colorata 

 subtiliterque puberula. Stipule parvse ^ poll, longa? sublanceolatee v. ovatae subacuminatae 

 striata? margine membranacese. Eacemi axillares breves § poll, longi pauciflori seel saepe 

 abortu uniflori cum flore pseudoterminali ; rhacbis puberula 4-5-articulata nodis tumidis 

 quoque cum 1-2 oppositis striatis puberulis subovatis v. ellipticis concavis -J poll, longis 

 bracteolis instructo ; pedicelli tenues \-^ poll, longi ; iuvolucrum bibracteolatum, bracteolis 

 calycis basim amplectentibus. Calyx \ poll, longus extus glaber, lobis tubo longioribus 

 superioribus 2 subconnatis obtusis, caeteris lanceolatis. Corolla caerulea mox decidua ; 

 vexillum \ poll, longum. Ovarium \ poll, longum stipitatum ; stylus -^ poll, longus. Leg%- 

 men perfectum non vidi sed immaturum breve glabrum venosum multoque compressum. 



