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leaflets alternate, ovate, bluntly pointed, most entire, smooth. 

 Petiole common, round, smooth, with a thick glandular base, 

 proper, short, very slender. Racemes axillary, compound, 

 Peduncles common, drooping", proper slender, the length of the 

 flowers, spreading, scattered. Flowers small, yellow, sweet 

 scented. Calyx perianth, one leafed, bell-shape; the mouth five 

 toothed, the two upper toothlets larger, obtuse, the three lower 

 sharp. Corolla papilionaceous, banner roundish, clawed, 

 reflected; claw wedge form, extending to the centre of the banner. 

 Wings hatchet form ; arth claws thread form, the length of 

 the banner, above with are versed tooth. Keel almost two 

 petaled, a little shorter than the wings, with claws thread form, 

 remote. Stam : filaments, at the base united into a cylinder, 

 split on the upper side ; a little higher, divided into two bodies, 

 equal, lateral ; which at half their length, are split, each into five 

 awl-shape ascending, the length, of the keel. Anthers roundish. 

 Pistil germ>oblong, sharp at both ends, short pedicelled, villous. 

 Style awl-shape, ascending, the length of the stamina, stigma 

 simple. Legume roundish, compressed, leaf like, not opening : 

 a lanceolate tooth on the upper margin. Seed : one, flat. 

 Obs. The Germ dissected contains the rudiments of four 

 seeds. 



This tree, being very branchy, and thickly covered with 

 foliage, is very much planted about houses, and used to form 

 avenues. It flowers in April and May, and the flowers are 

 used to give an agreeable scent to the cocoa-nut oil, which the 

 natives apply to their hair. The tree is very vivacious ; large 

 branches lopped off any way and put into the ground, shoot 

 out roots and branches, their growth being quick, and an 

 avenue is thus speedily formed. 



Ebythmna. 



Ery thrina corallodei id rum . 



Used, as before mentioned, to prop the pepper vines. 



Crotalaeia. 



Crotalaria labumifolia, Burm. Zeyl. 82, t. 35. In gardens; 

 came from China. 



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