No. XIV.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
261. Dalbergia renifomis, (Roxb.) tender parts ferruginous:
leaflets from 5 to 11, alternate, lanceolate: panicles axillary and lateral
: stamina in two 5-cleft bodies: legumes reniform; with thick
rounded margins—Roxb.
A large crooked bushy tree, leaflets 2 inches long 1 broad, legume of
one or two, one-seeded, joints.
1. Flowering branch—2. A dissected flower—Copied from Roxburgh’s
drawing.
262. Dalbergia rimosd, (Roxb.) shrubby: leaflets about 7, subalternate,
oblong, finely parallel veined: flowers minute, panicled;
filaments 10 in one body: legumes one rarely 2-seeded, rimose at
the seeds—Roxb.
1. Flowering branch—3. Legumes—3. A seed.
263. Bauhinia• seinibi/ida, (Roxb.) scan l e n t : leaves obovate,
deeply 3-lobed: stipules broad, falcate: racemes terminal, calyx
5-leaved: petals oblong, uuguiculate: stamens 3 with 2 rudiments,
legume flat, smooth, few-seeded—Roxb.
Flowers white changing to pale yellow, fragrant—Legume thin,
smooth, of a dark chesnut colour.
1. Flowering branch—2. Pedicel, tube of the calyx and ovary-
stigma very large—3. A legume.
264. Bauhinia scandens, (Roxb.) scan'lent: tendrils opposite:
leaves round cordate, apex 2-lobed: racemes terminal, simple or
ramous: flowers triandrous: legumes linear, from 4 to 5 seeded —
Roxb.
Petals densely clothed with soft ferruginous greydo'on, filaments 3.
Seeds about the size of a chesnut, surrounded with soft spongy greyish
yellow substance.
1. Flowering branch—2. Legume open showing the seed.
Dalhousiba., Wall. Benth.
©bn. Char.—Calyx short, broadly campanulate, orifice entire,
circumsessile at the base— vexillum broadlv obcordate with a short
claw: a little longer than the wings. Wings subfalcate, oblong.
Keel incurved, obtuse about the length of the wings. Stamens free,
filaments glabrous. ■ Ovary subsessile with several ovules. Style incurved,
glabrous, slightly dilated at the base". Stigma minute,
legume compressed, few-seeded—Benth. Comment, p. 5.
Leaves simple, oval: peduncles acillary, once or twice bifid, ultimate
divisions l-flotoered, with a oair of large onoosite roundish many-nerved
bracteas hiding the calyx. and a similar pair at the forks of the peduncles.
Flowers lame, white, calys bowl-shaped, mouth unequally 5-
toothed, caducous—Roxb.
265. Dalhnusiea braeteata, (Wall.) Podalyria bracteata, (Roxb.)
1. Flowering branch—2. \ dissected flower—3. Ovary cut open—
4. A stamen—5. Legume—6-7. Dissected seed.
266. Dalbergia frondosa, (Roxb ) bark smooth : leaflets about 5
pair, alternate, oval, eraarginate: stipules falcate: panicles axillary:
stamens in two equal bodies: legume from two to three seeded.
Flowers pale blue—legumes 1-4 seeded.
1. Flowering branch—2. A dissected flower—3. Ovary cut lengthwise—
4-5. Legumes—6. A seed lobe showing the embryo—7. Embryo
removed.
267. Flemingia strobilifera, 'Brown) Hedysarura strobiliferum,
(Roxb.) shrubby: leaves simple, ovate: racemes terminal, imbricated
laterally with reniform folded inflated bractes enclosing the
fascicule of flowers—Roxb.
1. Flowering branch—2. Abractea opened, showing its fasciculus
of flowers—3-4. Pods—5. A seed—the magnified views Nos. 6, 7, 8,
9 and 10, are additions to Roxburgh’s drawing.
263. Flemingia bracteata, (Hedvsarum bracteatum, Roxb.) shrubby:
erect, leaves narrow, cordate, racemes terminal, compound,
bifariously imbricated with alternate reniform inflated downy bracteas,
legume of one oval joint 2-seeded—Roxb.
1. Flowering branch, copied from Roxburgh’s drawing—2. A
brae tea, with its enclosed fascicle of flowers.
272. Desmodium collinum, (Hedvsarum collinnm, Roxb.) shrubby,
oblique: leaves ovate, cordate, downy underneath: racemes axillary,
very long, legume notched on the under side—Roxb.
This plant does not appear specifically distinct from 270—nor do
they seem so in the figures, which are true copies of Roxburgh’s
drawing.
273. Crotalaria bracteata, (Roxb.) shrubby, erect, with many
spreading branches, slightly sericeous: leaves ternate, leaflets
broad, lanceolar, acute, smooth: stipules minute: racemes axillary
or leaf opposed: a pair of large ovate bractes over the calyx;
legume sessile, woolly, many-seeded—Roxb.
1. Flowering branch—2. A legume—3. The same opened.
Balanites, Delil. D.C.
Gen. Char.—Calyx 5-parted, petals 5, stamens 10, filaments awl-
shaped. Disk glandular, girding the ovary. Ovary 5-celled, 5-
seeaed. Drupe ovate, acute, or suborbicular, 1-celled, l-seeded,
by abortion ; nut woody, pentagonal. Seed pendulous with a fibrous
covering and a thickened endopleura about the radicle, cotyledons
semiovate, plumula, 2-leaved.
Trees with alternate bifoliolate leaves and axillary spines, pedicels
1 -flowered, aggregated, flowers small, whitish.
274. B. Mgyptiaca, Delil. (Ximenia Lin. Roxb.)
1. A flowering branch and portion of another, bearing a full
grown fruit—2. An expanded flower—3-4. Ovaries cut vertically,
showing the pendulous ovules—5. Cut transversely, 5-celled—6. A
full grown fruit, the rind removed showing the pulp--7. The drupe
cut transversely—8. Out vertically—9. A seed cut vertically, showing
the superior embryo.
Braohvptbrom, W. & A. Benth.
Gen. Char.—Calyx obliquely truncated. Anthers ovate, legume
membranaceous, samaroid, stipitate, acute at both ends, both sub-
ineurved, superior one with a straight narrow wing, inferior one
naked. Leaves pinnated; leaflets opposite: racemes long, pendulous.
This genus is established by Bentham (on our section of the same
name) for the reception of Dalbergia scandens, (Roxb.) a most
beautiful creeper.
275. B. scandens, (Benth.) Dalbergia scandens, Roxb. W. and A.
1. Flowering branch, natural size—2. A dissected flower—3. Stamens—
4. Pollen—5. Ovary cut longitudinally, ovules numerous--6.
An ovule--7. Legume, natural size, about 3-seeded—8. A portion
opened to show the seed in situ, natural size, but the win® removed—
9. A seed detached—10. Part of the testa removed, showing the
curved radicle—11. Cotyledons, with the exceptions mentioned, all
more or less magnified.
276. Memecylon anguslifolium, (R. W: 111. Iud. Bot. 1 p. 215)
branches terete, leaves congested towards the extremities, narrow
lanceolate, attenuated below, blunt pointed, 1-nerved, peduncles
short from the scars of fallen leaves: flowers very numerous, umbellate
or sub-capitate, pedicels short.
Jungles about Courtallum, nearly allied to Iff. ramiflorum.
1. Flowering branch, natural size—2. An unexpanded flower—3.
A full blown flower—4. An anther—5. The ovary cut vertically,
ovules erect—6. Cut transversely, 1-c'elled, ovules numerous, attached
to a central placenta.
277. Memecylon jambosioides, (R. W. 1. c.) branches cylindrical,
glabrous: leaves ovate, lanceolate, acuminated, 3-nerved; the lateral
pair of nerves sub-marginal, united to the middle one with
smaller transverse parallel veins: flowers numerous, capitulate,
short pedicelled; peduncles from the scars of fallen leaves.
1. Flowering branch, natural size—2. An unexpanded flower bud—
3. An expanded flower, the petals removed—4. Anthers before and
after dehiscence of the flower—5. Ovary after the separation of the
petals and stamens—6. The same cut vertically—7. Cut transversely,
4-ovuled—8. A full grown fruit, natural size—9. Cat transversely,
showing the convolute cotyledons—10. A cotyledon detached and
opened, showing the radicle at the base.
269. Cassia rhombifolia, (Roxb.) leaflets about 5 pair, rhombi-
form, polished, racemes pendulous: loment cylindrical, partitions
lined with soft bitter pulp—Roxb.
Flowers bright yellow: seeds albuminous, differs from C. fistula in
the shape of the leaves, more slender loment and general habit of the
trees—Roxb.
1. Flowering branch—2. Portion of an ovary cut lengthwise—3.
Legume—4. A seed—5-6. The same dissected.
270. Desmodium latifolium, D.C. (Hedysarum Roxb.) shrubby,
oblique: leaf simple, round, reniform-cordate, somewhat repand:
stipules semicordate, cuspidate, racemes axillary, clothed with
hooked bristles, legumes from 3 to 5 jointed, notched on the under
margin—Roxb.
1. Flowering branch—2. Legume—3. Seed.
271. Desmodium gangelicum, D.C. (Hedysarum Roxb.) shrubby,
oblioue: leaves ovate, acute, scabious above, and villous underneath
: racemes terminal, very long and slender, flowers paired,
carina and wings reflexed: legumes from 5 to 6 jointed, straight o n '
the upper margin—Roxb.
Flowers either purple or white, the mottled leaves are characteristic,
1. Flowering branch—2. A legume—3. A seed.
278. Memecylon Heyneanum, (Benth.) branches terete: leaves
petioied, lanceolate, much acuminated: peduncles aggregated, axillary,
or on the older branches below the leaves, about the length of
thepetiols, each bearing an umbel of pedicellate flowers; the pedicels
about as long as the peduncle: stamens and style about equal in
length, short.
1. Flowering branch, natural size—2. A flower bud—3. A flower,
the petals removed—4. An anther—5. Ovary cut vertically—6. Cut
transversely, 8-seeded—7. A young fruit, natural size--8. The same
magnified—9. Cut transversely, showing the crumpled folded cotyledons—
10. A cotyledon unfolded.
279. Memecylon amplexicaule, (Roxb.) somewhat arborescent,
branches terete: leaves sessile, cordate at the base, from ovate to
oblong and gradually acuminated: peduncles wanting, for very
short) pedicels 1-flowered on a sessile axillary, (or lateral on the
older branches) tubercle: petals orbicular, sessile. Stamens scarcely
longer than the petals, about half as long as the style. Fruit globose,
1-3-celled, i-3-seeded—W. and A. Prod.
1. Flowering branch, natural size—2. An expanded flower, petals
removed—3. Anthers—4. Ovary cut vertically—5. Cut transversely
—6. A cluster of fruit, natural size, with the exceptions mentioned, all
more or less magnified.