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LEGUMINOSiE. 
CeOTALARIA LANATA. (Bedd.) A 1 arge slirub 12-15 feet high, stems angled very woolly above, leaves oblong oval or 
siuborbicular mucronate 4-6 inches long by 3-3A broad, glabrous above densely woolly beneath, petioles inch long woolly, stip ules 
very large transversely lunate apiculate, racemes terminal bracts hairy ovate apiculate calyx pubescent, Mowers large yellow, legume 
glabrous many seeded. 
Auamallays and Pulnies, grass land and dry forest, 3-4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CV. 
CeOTALARIA ELEGANS. (Bedd.) Herbaceous erect glabrous, leaves narrow linear 4-6 inches long by 2-3 lines broad, 
mucronate, petioles 1 line long slightly hairy (under the lens) as is the costa on the under side of the leaves, stipules minute eaii. 
caducous, racemes terminal and from the upper axils slender many flowered, bracts large ovate apiculate atlnate and decurrent to the 
rachis of the raceme, flower pedicels about an inch long increasing to one inch when in fruit, legume sparingly hairy (under the lens) 
many seeded. 
Anamallays and Pulnies, grassy places about 4,000 feet elevation ; a very pretty species, 
PLATE No. CYI. 
BaTJHINIA JBeNTITAMI. (Bedd.) A gigantic climber, the young branches inflorescence and legumes fuscous with 
minule reddish tomentum otherwise glabrous leaves broadly oblong to suborbicular 7-9 nerved 3-5 inches long and nearly as broad 
divided down Ath-ird into 2 obtuse lobes, above glabrous, beneath minutely hairy (under the lens) racemes leaf ooposed supra-axillary 
or terminal, few flowered, flowers pedicellate bright crimson about 2|- inches each way, calyx with a long tube below and 5 imbricate 
closed segments above, 5 angled in bud at length splitting in the upper portion into 5 equal narrow lanceolate segments or into 2 
divisions of 2-3 each, petals 5 very long clawed, nearly twice the length of the calyx segments, stamens 5 free all fertile and of equal 
length inserted into the hairy apex of the calyx tube, anthers versatile, ovary stalked about 5 ovuled, stalk below adhering to the ir - 
side of the calyx tube, legume about 6 inches long and 1-|- broad obliquely lanceolate with a long fine point, seminiferous suture flat and 
slightly wiuged about 5 seeded. 
A most gorgeous creeper, very common about the Wynad and South Canara ghats, from the foot up to about 1,500 or 2 030 
feet elevation ; it climbs to the top of the highest trees. 
PLATE No. CVII. 
HuMBOLDTIA UNIJUGA. (Bedd.) A tree, young parts minutely strigose otherwise glabrous, leaves alternate abruptly 
pinnate, common petioles about 2 lines long, leaflets only one pair with a flat depressed gland at their insertion on the apex of the 
petioles, subsessile narrow lanceolate very unequal at the base, and with a long acumination at the apex 5-7 inches long 11 to 2 broad 
stipules semi-ovate acuminate very unequal sided 4 to inch long, flowers crimson on very short racemes from the trunk and older 
boughs and more rarely from the younger branchlets, peduncles |-1 inch long pedicels slender J to 1 inch long furnished with 2 oblong 
minutely pubescent bracts at the apex just below the calyx, calyx with a short tube 5 parted, segments oblong more than twice as 
long as the bractes minutely pubescent, corid 5 parted, one half longer than the calyx lobes, broad oblong, stamens 5 all fertile inserted 
alternate with the petals on to the hairy apex of the calyx tube, filaments glabrous except at their base, staminodia none, ovary stinitato 
hairy 2-3 ovuled, stipe adnate to the wall of the calyx tube, legume unknown. 
A tolerably large tree, abundant on the Travaneore hills jusl below Aghusteer peak, at 3-4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CVHII. 
EOSACEiE. 
PaRINARIUM TnDICUM. (Bedd.) A middling sized tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves alternate elliptic to 
lanceolate entire glabrous slightly undulate, 8-9 inches long by 3 broad, with 2 glands at the base on the under side close above the 
petiole \ to A inch long, racemes slightly pubescent, shorter than the leaves leaf opposed or terminal, flowers white subsessile 3 bracte- 
ated, outer Joract large ovato-lanceolate, 2 inner ones linear lanceolate, calyx tube infuudibuliform, divisions 5 imbricate lanceolate acu¬ 
minate subequal pilose, petals 5 inserted into the jaws of the calyx between its divisions and the stamen tube and alternate with the 
former ovate pointed imbricate equal, a little shorter than the calycine lobes, stamen tube lining the inside of the calyx and connate with 
it to its base densely hairy inside, stamens 12-15 all together on one side of the tube near the ovary, filaments glabrous twice the length 
ofthe calyx induplicate in aestivation, anthers 2 celled bursting longitudinally, the rest of the stamen tube is furnished with teeth 
