268 LEGVMINOSM. [Zobnia. 



campanulate, almost truncate. Corolla mucli exserted, standard 

 broad ; keel obtuse, the petals cbheriug slightly. Stamens usually 

 1-adelphous, anthers versatile. Ovary sessile, fewovuled ; style in- 

 onrved, filiform, s^^^w^a capitate. Pod rigid, thin, flat, indehiscent, 

 oblong if 1-seeded, strap-shaped if few-seeded, with a distinct wing 

 down the upper or both sutures. Species about 40. found in the 

 tropics of both hemispheres. 



D. scandens, Bent/i. in J'owrn. Linn. Soc. iv, Supjpl. 103 ; Brand. For, 

 Fl. 154 ; F.B.I. ii, 240 ; Watt E. D. Dalbergia scandens, Roxh. ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 232 ; W. Sf A. Prod 264. Brachypterum scandens, Benth. ; D. ^ G 

 Bomb. Fl. 76, 



A large climber with, the branchlets at first obscurely grey-downy, Leaf- 

 rachis about 3 in. ; leaflets 9-11, on short stalks, 1-2 in. long, oblong or 

 obovate-oblong, subcoriaceous, dark-green, polished and glabrous above, 

 sparsely grey-pubescent beneath. Flowers in long axillary short-ped- 

 uncled racemes which are much longer than the leaves ; nodes distant, 

 swollen, often hearing flowers in fascicles ; rachis and pedicels finely 

 appressed-pubescent ; pedicels with 2 minute bracteoles under the 

 calyx. Calyx widely companulate, thinly silky, teeth obscure. Corolla 

 white or pale-rose, 3 times the calyx. Ovary finely puberulous, ovules 6-8. 

 Pod 1-3 in. long, linear-lanceolate, clothed with fine silky hairs, some- 

 tvhat turgid over the seeds, 1-4 seeded. 

 Forests of N. Oudh. Distkib. Cent, and S. India to Ceylon, Bengal, 

 Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Burma, Malay Fenins. and Islands 

 to S. China and N. Australia. Flowers during the hot season. The 

 bark yields a coarse fibre . 



46. ZORNIA, Gmel. ; Fl. Brit, Ind. ii, 147. 



Annuals with large geminate coriaceous bracts and dotted exsti- 

 pellate leaflets in 1-2 opposite pairs. Flowers in lax racemes. 

 Calyx minute ; upper teeth short, connate, lowest shorter than the 

 two middle ones. Corolla much exserted, standard broad ; loeel in- 

 curved, acute. Stamens 1-adelphous, anthers dimorphous. Ovary 

 sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved ; stigma minute, 

 capitate. Pod of several small round flattened finely muricated 

 l-8eeded indehiscent joints. — Species 11, chiefly American. 



Z. diphylla, Pers, Syn. ii, 318 ; F.B.I, ii, 147 ; Watt E. D. Hedysarum 

 diphyllum, Lirm. ; jRoa;&. Fl. Ind. Hi, 353. Z. angustifolia. Sm. / W. Sf 

 A. Prod. 217 ; D. ^ Q. Bomb. Fl. 62. 



A diffuse annual with slender zigzag wiry branches. Leaves stalked ; 

 rachis i in., purberulous ; leaflets 2 lanceolate, acute, glabrous, rigidly 

 coriaceous, i-1 in. long, dotted with black glands ; siijpules lanceolate 



