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238 L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. BakcT.) [Dalbergia, 



minute obtuse hractcoles ; teeth sliort, obtuse. Corolla ^ in. ; claws as long as the 

 calyx; standard narrow. Pod IroAvn, flat, glabrous, under 1 in. long, the upper 

 suture recurved ; stalk as long as the calyx. 



27. D. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Iml iii. 233; erect, l)ranclilets spine-tipped, 

 leaflets 7-0 small obtuse, pod flat. W. ^' A, Prodr. 266 ; Bmth, in Joum. 

 Linn, Soc, iv., Suppl. 49. 1). horrida, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5877. 



Shores of the Eastern and Wkstern Peninsulas. Chittagong, Boxhurgh. 



A stiff erect shrub, with numerous sliort round horizontal branchlets, ending in 

 pungent spines. Leaves crowded, from the nodes of the branchlets, l-l^^ in. long; 

 leaflets firm, obovate-oblong, ;|-J in. long. Flowers in congested sessile corymbose 

 panicles, Mith minutely downy branches ; pedicels shorter than the cal}^. Calj^ 

 ^ in., minutely downy; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla whitish, twice the length of the 

 calyx. Pod 1 in. long, brown, ghibrous, reniform. 



28. D. reniformis, Eoxb. Ilort. Beng. 53; FL Lad. iii. ^2^\ erect, 

 spineless, leaflets 9-11 large acute nearly or quite glabrous, pod turgid. 

 Wigld Ic. t. 261, D. flexuosa, Gralu in Wall. Cat mb. Benth. in Jouiiu 

 Limu Soc, iv., Suppl. 48. D. stipulata. Wall. Cat. 5868 B, ex parte. 



SiLLET, Roxlntrghy Wallich, Pegu, Kurz. Tenasserim, Griffith. 



A large crooked busliy tree, with fine brown-silky branchlets. Leaves 4-8 in- 

 long; leaflets rigidly coriaceous, glabrescent, 1^-2 in, long, broadly rounded at the 

 base. Flowers in deltoid close axillary panicles, shorter than the leaves, the bruncn- 

 lets racemose, densely brown-velvety. Calyx ^ in., canipaniilate, densely silky; teeth 

 deltoid, shorter than the tube. Corolla twice the length of the calyx, white; 

 standard obovate-emarginate. Pod glabrous, rigid, xisually one-seeded, an inchbroaa 

 by J-| in,, narrowed suddenly into a stalk {-^ in. long. 



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29. D. stenocarpa, Kurz in Jom-n. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliv. 2, 205. 



Shrub, with the young parts clothed with golden or fulvous silky pubescence. 

 Leavfs 5-8 in. long; leaflets 9-13, oblong, 1-1§ in. long, retuse, with a minute niucro, 

 chartaceous, glaucescent and thinly pilose beneath, Panichs axillary, much shorter 

 than the leaves; rachises pilose; pedicels ^ in. Calyx -^^ in., pilose; upper tootfl 

 very short, obtuse ; lower very long, subulate. Corolla and stamens unknown, ^f^ 

 linear, 1-2 in. by ^ in., flat, brown, thin, narrowed gradually to a long stalk, indis- 

 tinctly veined, 1-5 seeded. Pod of D. Sissoo and habit of J), laticeolaria. Sikkim at 

 Pankabari, Gamble. — Ex Kurc loc. cit. 



87. PTEROCARPUS. Linn. 



Erect trees. Leaves wnth alternate coriaceous exstipellate leaflets. Floict^^^ 

 yellowish, in copious panieled racemes; bracts and Iracteoles minute, caducous, 

 pedicels distinctly articulated at the apex. Calyx turbinate, curved before ex- 

 pansion, the teeth short. Petals exserted, with long claws ; standard and vv'i^ 

 crisped ; keel obtuse, the petals scarcely or not at all coherent. Stamin^l ®^^,. 

 slit both above and below, or above only ; the upper stamen often nearly or qtii^^ 

 free ; anthers versatile. Ovary stallvcd, 2-ovuled ; style incurved, stigma term 

 nal. Pod orbicular, rarely other than 1-seeded, with a broad rigid wing, the p^m 

 turned down to opposite the baae or near it. — Distkib, Species about 1 ? 

 cosmopolitan in tbe Tropics. 



^ 1. P. Indicus, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 419 ; leaflets 7-11 ovate acute, 

 veining fine, racemes pauicled, pedicels as long as the calyx, stamens ^'^ 

 adelphous, stalk of pod exceeding the calyx, beak of pod a space above the ou e 

 base. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 77; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. ^*^* ,a' 

 dalbergioides, Roxb, Hart. Beng. 5S ; FL Lnd. iii. 236; DC. P)'odr. il^^Y^ 

 WaU. Cat. 5843 ; W. i^ A. Prodr. 267. P. WaUichii, W. ^' A. B'odr. lod.^- 



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