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Pterocarpus.] l. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. Gr. Baker.) 239 



Eastkrx and Western Peninsulas.— Distrib. Malay isles, Philippines, China. 



A tall tree, -vv-ith ascending glabrous branches. Leaver ^-J ft. long ; leaflets rao- 

 aerately firm, 2-4 in. long, glabrous, rounded or deltoid at the base, always narrowed 

 to a point; petiolules ^-^ in. ; main veins fine, distant. Flowers in copious terminal 

 a^Q axillary panicles, with subsecund racemose branches, clothed with fine brown pu- 

 bescence; pedicels ^-^ in., furnislied with a pair of linear spreading caducous bracte- 

 I oles at the apex. Cal^/x J-a in,, finely brown-silky ; teeth rounded, the two upper 

 much the largest.'' Corolla exceeding the calyx ; standard |-| in. broad. Pod orbicular, 

 ^ in. broad, silky and veined against the seed, the wing ^-^ in broad, the style a con- 

 siderable distance above the base, pointing outwards, at a right angle with the stalk. 



1 /' ^' "^^^^*^*5^rP^s, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Sac, Beng, xliii. 2, 187 ; 

 leaflets 7-11 ovate-oblong pointed, racemes simple, pedicels as long as the calyx, 

 stamens diadelphous, beak of pod at tlie ba^al comer. 



Martaban and Tenasserim, Kurz. 



(J^tta sbghtly exceeding the calyx. Pod canescent, roundish, U-2 in, broad; wings 

 suDpIicate. Ex Kurz he, cit, 



3. p. santallnus, Linn.Jil ; DC, Prodr. ii. 419 ; leaflets 3 ovate obtuse, 

 veining fine, pedicels rather shorter than the calyx, stamens 2-3-adelphons, stalk 

 01 pod much exceeding the calyx, beak of pod at the basal corner. Iloxb, FL 

 Jn^. lu, 234; Wall Vat. 5844;' W. ^- A. Prodr, 266; Benth, in Journ, Linn, 

 ^' IV., Suppl 76 ; Bedd, FL Sylv. t, 22. 



Jesterx Penikstjla. 



g^ —i*^^^^* obscurely grey-downy. Leaflets 3 in all our specimens, but said to be 

 ficure T^ ^' ^~^ ^"' ^^"^» rounded at both ends, slightly emarginate, clothed with ob- 

 cus .?^^^^}^^ grey hairs below. Racemes shorter and less copious than in P. indi- 

 1 ' °^P^>cels shorter. Calya: l-\ in. ; teeth deltoid, minute. Limb of standard not 

 mom -V^^- ^^^'^' ^""^ silky'at first, the same size as in P. indicus, but the centre 

 ^^id. Wing narrower and style brought down to the basal corner. 



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^* P. Marsupi 



the 

 of 



cah-T +°^ i^sually obtuse, veins close and prominent, pedicels shorter than 1 

 Doi a'/l*°^f°^ monadelphous, stalk of pod scarcely exceeding the calyx, beak 

 gj.^at the basal corner. DC. Prodr. ii. 418 : W. ^ A. B-odr. 2(50 ; IFall. Cat. 

 Ms<i' A^^ ^^- ^■!/^>^- t- 21 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 7G. P. bilobus, Roxh. 



^ -"^- ; u. Don n^ .C.,„/ ;: oTn 



Plai 



^- ^on, Gen. Syst. ii. 37G. 



oUuse V 1 '^^^r than in the others, green and glabrous on both surfaces, 3-5 m. long, 

 broad th ''"^^'^^t*^' somotimes slightly or deeply emarginate, often twice as long as 

 others T> ^^^^ '^'*^^"^ ™^ch closer; more numerous, and more prominent than in the 

 ^wn',.,;, ***■ ^"'P'e, copious, lateral and terminal, the branches tliinly clotliedwith 

 the two n "^"^'^ ' Pedicels i-JL in. Calvx H i°- fi"*^^^ brown-downy ; teeth deltoid 

 thml, y^^"". """^^ the largest. Corolla ' twice the length of the calyx ; slieath of 



the same T"^™"^ ^"""'^^ ^P^'*^ "^"^^ ^^^'^ ^'^^^ '''' ^'''^^^ '''' ^'^^ ^°P" ^"'^ ^~^ '"" 



"suape as in the last, but the seed smaller and wing broader. 



88. PONG A MIA, Vent 



cam if ^°* ^^ fruticose. Leaves odd-pinnate. Floioers racemed. Calyx 

 obtiS^tT*®' nearly truncate. Corolla much exserted ; standard broad ; keel 

 meut frp!^i^^^ cohering at the tip. Stamem monadelphous, the upper ffla- 



^ WW down} anthers oblong, versatUe. Ovary subsessile, 2-ovuled; 



1^ ^ H. 



