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paulo longiores, subaequalis. Corolla unguibus longitudine calycis pli- 
cata. Vexillum subrotundura. Aloe vexillo breviores, subrotundse. 
Carina alis brevior. Filamentum unicum, supra deliiscens, laciniis al- 
ternis brevissimis decemfidum. Antherae subrotundse. Germen oblon- 
gum, pilosum. Stylus rectus, subulatus. Stigma simplex. 
Legumen falcato-subrotundum, foliaceum, pedicellatum, nervosum, 
seminibus transversis subdispermum. 
From the lower mountains of Nepal, adjacent to Cosala, 
I received branches of a tree, without flower or fruit, very 
little different, however, from the preceding, but called 
Bijaya Sala, on which account the specimens sent to the 
India House have been called Pterocarpus Vijaya. I shall 
here describe it, leaving it to others to determine whether 
it be truly different. 
Cortex succo sanguineo scatens. Raniuli teretes, ad folia nodosi. 
Folia alterna, cum imparl pinnata. Foliola 5-9 per paria approxiraata, 
pedicellata, integerrima, emarginata, supra nitida, subtus nuda, equila- 
teralia, costis parallelis striata, nervis utrinque prominulis reticulatissi- 
ma, firma, undulata, inferiora basi obtuso-ovata, superiora basi acutius- 
culo ovato-oblonga. Petiolus communis basi incrassato, teres, glaber^ 
foliolo brevior, non stipulaceus. 
In the western parts of Gangetic India I found a tree 
very nearly alhed to the Pterocarpus Santolinus^ having a 
fruit exactly similar. This I take to be the Pterocarpus 
Marsupium (Hort. Beng. 53 ; Willd. Sp. PL iii. 905 ; 
Enc. Meth. v. 730), and it is chiefly distinguished by ha- 
ving its leaflets larger and blunter, being often retuse rather 
than emarginated. I have not seen the flower ; but I con- 
sider it as scarcely at all different from a tree that I found 
in the south of India, and gave specimens to Sir J. E. 
Smith, under the name of Pterocarpus Vaynga. These 
specimens I compared with those of the Ptetvcarpus hilo- 
bus in the collection of Sir J. Banks, and I have no doubt 
of their being the same. The foHola of this plant from 
the south of India are much contracted in breadth towards 
