404. I nmgofjbiU viscosa (Laui.) suffruticose, erect,'
d u ch branched; branches, petioles, peduncles, and legumes
glutinous, with rigid gland-tipped hairs: leaves
letioled," pinhated: leaflets 4-8. pairs, elliptic-oblong,
pubescent frbni wliite adpressed hairs, particularly on
the under side: racemes peduncled about the length ot
the leaves or longer. flowers distant, small: calyx-segments
short-subulate : > legumes cylindrical — I H
straight: seeds 6- 12, cylindrical, truncated at both ends.*
■i-W: and1 A. prgiWp. 200.1 . . -
1 Flowering branch—2 disstetite flower—3 nm e s ta -
411. Uttaria pictA (Desv. Hedysarum pictnm Roxb.)
shrubby, erect, young parts clothed with hooked h a irs:
leaves simple and pinnated; simple ones oblong-ovate;
leaflets of the compound ones 2-4-pair, linear-lanceolate,
obtuse, upper side clouded, under a little reticulated and
pubescent: racemes terminal, very long, spike-like, rigid :
bracteas below the raceme persistent, ovate-lanceolate,
acuminated, rigid: pedicels covered with short hooked
hairs, much incurved at the apex after flowering: calyx-
segments bearded with long hairs, lanceolate-setaceous,
the lower ones at length about twice as long as the upper:
legume 3-6-jointed.—W. and A. Piod. pj 221.
Flowering branch, copied from Roxburgh’s drawing.
403 ÆscKTN<ivr>HNDicA(fÇmn. IT«d\ animlvah-
Tah 'Roxb'") annual, diffuse, branched benches slender
'glabrous ■ t ouug shoot-, S B ». M 1“ ■ ■ 1 I
ten'slighuy muri’ca'ted : leaflets 15 -20 pair-, line ir, oh-
to-e itlto th c n d - . pedunclesaxillary, t t o h i , * ( i f c i
S e d often with a small leaf at the base of th< Pedu e -
calvx and cbroU'a glabrous : g j . long-stalked, ,6-10-
tomTed- ioints at first smooth, afterwards with- a few I
dandulàr dots; when mature rougjtwith irreguhr < o n -,
B — timid — W M e d g e .- , , ;
o - Branches thicker, more W B B
froni tin. mot and along the nnm h ra n e h .-\\ mid A ft ,
'^ c tp F ed 'from Roxburgh’s drawing.
11 400 Di swooaw v o iv c u m « (DC Hedi strum pur- ,
||SM T> __u \ suffruticose, procumbent, ^ranched, ot- MMÊÊÊMMÊM branches slightly angled, H
aUv with ih ite adpressedv pubescence, but often
I sr i,„:rs, on the 'voune: shoots : I leaves tnfoli-
olate - Teaflets from exactly oval and obtuse at both ends
to obnvttc-retuse o r mucronate ; upper side glabrous or
to o bm iti r nt undLr )eti( ulati lj veined,
H M M fndfe'rminal, many-flowered: t ó t e a s broadly ovate, <s
I Dointed pubescent, before expansion densely imbricated.
B U I issS u . H 1B *• Middle- on the other .-W . and A. Prod. p. 227.
Copied from Roxburgh’s drawing.
I 407 Desvodu w I ATFNS (II- d w n im patent I H H
*u /\ leaflets oblong,: racemes terminal.
B M f f l W M I I
Fl. Ind. I l l , p.' 363. . j i, I ;
m ;; Copied from Roxburgh s drawing.
AOS F lemingia pRoctsmbens (Roxb 1 ' In 1 H‘ b j* .
H f l length of the leaves, legumes and calyx ^ s p n n -
kledl with garnet-coloured gra ins.-Rokb. Fl. Ind. 111. .
P' f Flowering branch—2 dissected flower—3 légume—4,
the same opened.
409. DnsMoimm m « t » w (DC. M M I
lot A. leaflets oval, pubescent on both sides, stipules
ü g i M M and s t em - c la s p r a c em e s -,
1 M M B ^
—b S h H I I
utfod A. Prod. P» 25S6. !1 ’ , I
Branch copied from Roxburgh s drawing.
^ L 4 0 . Cassu nobosa (B o S h ^ e a y e i ^ ö W ; leaflets
laSJSTii'» »j obliduelv cretcent-shaped,
W m w I
B m M I __ nlknminftftQ SflP.fl. _ ,
'412. Pueraeia toberosa (DC. Hedysarum tuberosum,
Roxb.) root tuberous, very large: stems woody,
twining: leaflets roundish, pubescent above, beneath
silky-villous: stipules cordate: racemes simple or branched,
the length of the leaves, from the cicatrices of the
fallen leaves: flowers (bine) in threes: calyx 4-cleft,
silky; segments about equal, ovate, the upper one the
broadest and almost entire: legumes very hairy, linear,
pointed, 2-6-seeded, much contracted between the seeds.
—W. and A . Prod. p. 2051,1
' l Flowering branch—2 a leaf—3 legume. Copied from
Roxburgh’s drawing.
413. LaGer strcemia Reginas (Roxb.) leaves .oblong,
glabrous'‘ ‘panicle terminal: calyx tomentose, longitudinally
furrowed and plaited: petals orbicular, waved,
shortly unguiculate: stamens all about equal, broadly
'ovbi$;f-celled.—W. and A. Prod. p. 308.
f ® Flowering branch, natural size—2 a flower the petals
removed—3 anthers; one dehiscing—4 ovary—5 the same
cut transversely—6 cut vertically—7 capsules nearly full
grown—8 the same cut vertically—9 cut transversely-—
10 mature and dehiscing—11-12 seed natural size and
magnified.
414. PskenPAEiA QDORATISSIMA (Smith) twining
branches, softly pubeseent: leaves cordate, acuminate,
pubescent on the veins: cymes short peduncled, many-
flbwef&f: corolla segments short, obtuse, tube twice as
long as th e gynosu-giuin, furnished within .with five- lines
of deflexed hairs, decurrent from the sinuses: crown of
tfestamen s as long as the gynostegium.—Wights con-
trib p. 43.
1; Flowering branch, 'natural size—2 a dissected flower
corolla removed and the calyx opened to-show the gynos-
tegum—3- corolla opened—* gynostegum detached—5
the same, the anthers turned back to show the polled
cells and pollen masses in situ—6 tHé stigma and polled
masses, anthers removed—Ï detached pelted masses—8
ovary cut vertically—i f one carpel cut transversely.
jf-'dlj^DtoSPTEOS KAKI (Koenig) .leaves bifanous,
I,oVate,-cordate, downy peduncles three-flowered:
stamina 'about 20: hermaphrodite, solitary, octeadrous:
style four-cleft; stigmas-bifid;— Roxb. F l. Ind. u t p . 02/.
rtlUpffer .figure—1 flowering brfeftch; malef plant—2 a
dissected S o $m -L ow e r figure— 1 flowering branch bisexual;
plant--?? corolla ‘ split open—3 anther—4 ovary,
abd s&les—5 detached stigma--6 calyx-^-7- a fruit full
gVowu'scerf from above—S',the same seen from below g g
° . r o _in « _1 I flip, same cut
416. Diosptsos racbmosa (Roxb.)- .leaves from oblong
to IanceolRr, nbtifse, glossy * froth male and herma-
phrodite‘flowers on axillary, cymose racemes -, the former
with 20 oriâù Stamina, the latter with 12 or _ lb : germ
4Wetfrf; style'none, stigma -; #-eleft: bernes ^round,
smpotb,,with as many aa four seeds—Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11.
v,, . ’ -
Obs. The fignre of the' hermaphrodite plant differs
from the charadtèr. of the species, in having solitary not;
cymose flowers.
' I Upper figure—1 male plant flowers and leaves—2 co-
roBa and- stamens—3 c a ly x -iow e r figure— l flowramg
branch, bi-sexnal p lant--2 corolla spht and forcibly opened
showing the stamens—3 ovary and calyx—4 cut vertically—
8 eût tra n s v e rs e ly » * !# grown frmt seen from
below—7 cut transversely 4-ceHed— 8 a seed—9 the
same eût ibogitudinally showing the embryo. Copied