45 SAPINDUS RUBIGINOSA- 
Petiole round, downy, ending in a downy bristle. 
- Panicle terminal, large, erect, composed of simple racemes. 
Calyx five-leaved. 
Petals four, placed on the upper side. 
Style single, ascending, shorter than the stamens. 
Capsules three, when all come to perfection (which is rare), singly 
oblong, one- -cell’d. 
A large timber tree, and a native of the mountainous parts of the 
Circars. Flowers about the beginning of the hot season. 
The wood of this tree is very useful for a great variety of pur- 
poses, being large, straight, strong, and durable ; towards the centre 
it is of a chocolate colour. 
In the plate, the dissected Mower is magnified ; the fruit of its 
natural size. 
63. PROSOPIS SPICIGERA. 
Linn. Mant. 68. 
Prosopis spicata.. Burm. sel FOR 2. 25. f. 5. 
Tshamie of the Telingas. 
Vanni maram of the Tamuls. (Koenzg./ 
Trunk tolerably erect. Bark deeply crack’d, dirty-ash-colour. 
Branches irregular, very numerous, form a globular, shady head. 
Prickles scatter’d over the small branches, in some trees wanting. 
Leaves alternate, abruptly feather’d, from two to three inches long ; 
feathers from one to four inches; when in pairs, opposite, 
and have a gland between ; one and a half inch long. Leaflets 
opposite, from seven to ten pair, obliquely lanced, smooth, 
entire, about half an inch long, and one-sixth ofan inch broad. 
Stipules none. 
Spikes many , terminal, or from the exterior axills, thread-form, 
nearly erect. 
Bracts minute, one-flower’d, falling. 
Flowers numerous, small, yellow, single, approximated. 
Calyx below, five-tooth’d. 
Filaments united at the base. 
Anthers incumbent ; a white gland on the apex of each, which falls 
off soon after the flower expands. 
Style crooked. 
Legume oblong, pendulous, not inflated. 
Seeds many, lodged in a brown, mealy substance.” 
This grows toa large tree: is a native of most parts of the coast ; 
flowers during the cold, and beginning of the hot season. 
* Description by Dr. Koenig. 
Rami majores crassi, pauci : adulti ramosiores, aculeati. Ramuli alterni, filiformes, nume- 
rosissimi, glabri, aculeati, apicibus flaccidis penduli, virides. Aculed in ramis 
adultis sparsi, conico-compressi, cinerascentes; in ramulis magis acuminati, 
erecti, breves. 
Folia numerosa, patentia, alterna, petiolata, bipinnata: Pinna quaternz : inferiores paten- 
tissimee. Glandula umbilicata infra basin petiolellorum petiolo adnata. Foliola 
opposita, subsessilia, oblique oblonga, integerrima, acuta, utrinque glabra. 
Spice axillares terminalesque, conferte, filiformes. Flores parvi, sulphurei. 
Calyx monophyllus, campanulatus, quinquedentatus, glaber, corolla tertia parte brevior. 
Petala quinque, lineari-lanceolata, erecta, apice recurva, glabra. 
Filamenta decem, basi petalorum adnata, zqualia, capillacea, longitudine corolle. Anthere 
oblong, sulcate, versatiles, fulve. 
Legumen \ineare, teretiusculum, utrinque attenuatum, articulatum, glabrum, spithameum, 
Vix crassitie penne anserinz. Semina ovato-oblonga. 
PROSOPIS SPICIGERA. 46 
The pod of this tree is the only part used; it is about an inch in 
circumference, and from six to twelve long; when ripe, brown, 
smooth, and contains, besides the seeds, a large quantity of a 
brown, mealy substance, which the natives eat ; it has a sweetish 
agreeable taste, and may be compared to the Spanish Algaraba, or 
Locust tree (Ceratonia siliqua). 
64. SWIETENIA CHLOROXYLON. 
Billoo of the Telingas. 
Trunk tolerably erect, supporting a large, spreading, evergreen, 
shady head. Bark pretty smooth, dark rust-colour. 
Leaves about the extremities of the branches, abruptly feather’d, 
six or seven inches long. Leaflets alternate, short-petioled, 
from ten to twenty pair, obliquely oval, obtuse, upper half 
twice the breadth of the lower, smooth, entire, one inch long, 
and three-eighths of an inch broad. 
Petiole round, smooth. - 
Stipules none. 
Panicles pretty large, terminal. 
Flowers numerous, small, yellow. 
Bract, small, below each subdivision of the panicle. 
Calyx and Corol as in the genus. 
Nectary: a fleshy notch’d ring surrounding the base of the germ. 
Filaments ten, spreading. 
Germ above. 
Style short. 
Stigma simple. 
Capsule about one inch long, and half an inch in diameter, oblong, 
three-cell’d, three-valved, opening from the apex. 
Seeds four in each cell, membrane-wing’d, alternately placed with 
four oblong, compress’d, spongy bodies, resembling the seeds 
themselves. 
This is a middle-sized tree, a native of the mountainous parts of 
the Circars. Flowering time, the beginning of the hot season. 
The wood of this tree is of a deep yellow colour, remarkably 
close grained, heavy, and durable; it is used for various economical 
purposes, and comes nearer box-wood than any other wood I have 
e 
met with. 
65. LAGERSTROEMIA REGINZ. 
Lagerstroemia Flos Regine. Rez. obs. 5. p. 25. 
Adamboe. Rheed. mal. 4. p. 45. t. 20, 21. 
Trunk erect. Bark smooth, rust- 
colour’d. Young shoots angular : 
Branches horizontal, spreading. 
angles wing’d as in La- 
gerstroemia indica. 
Leaves opposite, or nearly so, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, 
four or five inches long, by about two broad. 
Stipules none. 
Panicles terminal, pyramidal, rigid, about a span long. 
Peduncle round, smooth. 
Pedicels short, rigid, three-flower'd. 
Bracts few, small, falling. 
Flowers much larger, and much more beautiful than those of La- 
