116 MR. G. BENTHAM’S SYNOPSIS OF DALBERGIE Ж, 
Calyx late truncatus. Flores 6-7 lin.longi. "Vexillum oculo nudo 
glabrum etsi sub lente pubes sericea tenuissima заре apparet, basi 
auriculis inflexis appendiculatum. Stamina more Lonchocarpi mona- 
delpha. Ovarium villosulum, biovulatum. Legumen vulgo 14-2 
poll. longum, 1 poll. latum, oblique v. interdum subfalcato-oblongum, 
stylo acutatum v. obtusum, basi acutiusculum subsessile. 
Hab. Throughout Southern India, from Ceylon, the Peninsula, and 
Bombay, to Pegu and Malacca, very common all over the coast, and 
in the plains extending northward to the foot of the hills, Abundant 
in the Indian Archipelago, extending northward to South China and 
Loo Choo, and eastward to the Feejees, Timor, and Tropical Australia. 
The other species formerly considered as Pongamias are now referred 
chiefly to Derris and to Millettia. 
XVII. Piscrpra, Linn. 
Flos Lonchocarpi. Legumen lineare, plano-compressum, indehiscens, 
polyspermum, longitudinaliter 4-alatum, i. e. sutura utraque utroque latere 
aucta ala lata membranacea transverse venosa. 
Species unica. 
P. ERYTHRINA, Linn., DC. Prod. ii. p. 267; P. Carthagensis, Jacq., 
Linn., DC. 1. с. Arbor, foliis alternis pinnatis exstipellatis. Ramuli 
et petioli tomentoso-puberuli. Foliola 7-11, opposita cum impari 
distante, ovalia obovalia v. late oblonga, obtusa v. breviter acuminata, 
demum coriacea, supra glabra, subtus elevato-pennivenia et plus minus 
tomentella rufescentia v. pallentia, 2-4 poll. longa, petiolulo 2-3- 
lineari. Paniculz laterales, sub anthesi aphylle, cano-sericec, nunc 
ovate: densiflors, vix 3-pollicares, nunc elongato-thyrsoidese i-1-pe- 
dales. Ramuli (fasciculorum rhaches elongatæ) breves, 3-12-flori. Pe- 
` dicelli sparsi, 2-3 lin. longi. Flores 7-8 lin., albo et sanguineo mixti. 
Calyx cano-sericeus, dente infimo late triangulari, superioribus latis 
obtusissimis. "Vexillum extus cano-sericeum, ungue calycem sub- 
æquante. Ovarium sericeum, ovulis 10-12. Legumen 2-4-pollicare, 
cano-tomentellum v. glabrescens, parte seminifera 3-4 lin. lata, inter 
semina subconstrictum ; alz omnes 6-10 lin. late, rigidule membra- 
nacez, venis transversis crebris parallelis lineata. Variat pube pagine 
inferioris foliolorum tenui canescente v. laxa subvelutina et nonnun- 
quam rufescente ; forma et numero foliolorum ; inflorescentia brevi v. 
elongata, leguminis alis continuis v. (ovulis hinc inde abortientibus) 
inter semina subinterruptis, &c. 
Hab. West Indies: Jamaica, Guadaloupe, St. Vincent’s, St. Lucia, &c. ; 
also in the Bahamas, Herb. Hook. ; and Florida, Rügel, n. 155. 
In flower, this plant is very near Lonchocarpus, and has much the 
aspect of the L. Guatemalensis, except in inflorescence, which is nearer 
that of the paniculate series of Lonchocarpi. 
The winged-podded Sesbanias or Daubentonias have been occasionally 
published as Piscidias. 
