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Ceylon, Thwaites. 

 ^ A climber, quite glabrous in all its parts, even the pedicels and caljx. Leaflets 

 ngidly subconaceous, oUong or obovate-oblong, 1^-2 in. long, green ab.ove, rather 

 glaucous beneath. Racemes axillary, s h or t-ped uncled, 2-4 in. long ; pedicels twice the 

 length of the caljx. Calyx campanulate, ^^ in. ; teeth deltoid, minute. Corolla 4 in., 

 the claws of the petals as long as the calyx. Ovules 2. Fod ligulate, glabrous, 

 1}-2| in. by ^ in. 



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^ iQ* ^' '^^^Tt^ttsta, Benth, in Journ. Linn. Sac, Iv. Suppl. 104; erect, leaflets 

 7-19 usually acute oblique at the base, flowers in elongated racemes, pedicels 

 unequal several to a fascicle exceeding the calyx. Dalbergia robusta, Hoxb. 

 tioH.Bmff. 53 ; DC. B^odr. ii. 417 ; Wight Ic. t. 244. D. Krowee, Roxb. FL 



^."^* 229. D. Orowei.DC P)'od)\ loc. cit. Brachypterum robustum, Balz. 

 9 Gibs. Bomb. FL 77. 



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/ Eastbhn Himatatas, Western Peninsula and Ceylon. 



..■^^^^6ct tree, 30-40 ft. high, with branchlets and leaves below obscurely grey- 



i^sy. Leaves \-^ ft. long; leaflets 1-2 in. long, not so coriaceous as in D. scandc7is, 



green and glabrous above, grey and obscurely silky beneath. Racemes like those of D. 



a?zfftf«5, but seldom exceeding the leaves, the flowers densely fascicled and nodes 



lable to be produced in the same way ; pedicels ^ in., finely grey-downy. Calj/x 



ijm.long; teeth minute, deltoid. Corolla whitish, 3-4 times the calyx; standard 



erect, with a round blade. Pod 1-5-seeded, narrowed to both ends, glabrous, 1-2^ in. 

 °S)^ in. broad, the wing more distinct than in B. scandens, sometimes ^ 



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 ' Bilk ^"l^^^ ®P^®^^°g tree, 15-20 ft. high, with branchlets, pedicels and calyx brown- 

 ro ^\ f^^^^^ ^~^ ^"- ^^"^^ ; leaflets close, short -stalked, not more than an inch long, 

 «naea at both ends, emarginate, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark green above, 

 like H^*^^^ ^^Death, the veins immersed. Flowers in copious short-ped uncled racemes, 

 i each k!^ ^^ B,scandens and robusta, but the nodes more crowded ; pedicels and calyx 

 I'^^'Ieiiffth ^^ ^ ^°' ■'^"^' ^^^^^^ minute, deltoid. Corolla rose-coloured, 4 times the 

 ■ ffl^o? ^^® calyx; blade of the standard oblong. Pod JM^t like that of i?. 



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 (wy, in copious axillary racemes 



Stamens 



pboua. Po^s flattened, broader than in the la^t group and distinctly wanged 

 ^<^^n one or both sutures. 



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down the tijype?* suture only. 

 '^sfeiv; standard not callose at the base. (Euderris, Benth.) 



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^ie-sized rigidly subcoriaceous oblong subacute, flowers middle-sized ia 

 r^uncled axillary racemes which are sometimes obscurely panicled. Bcnth. 



Dak. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 77. Pongamia 

 Cat 5879; W. ^ A. P?'odr. 262. P. reli- 



^edniui" ';• ^''^*- ^^^' ^^'^^' "i- 301. P, triphylla, Wt. loc. cit. SuppL t. 41. 

 ^osa Tv)V^8^°Qsa, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 53 ; FL Did. iii. 243. Robinia uliiri- 

 iL4{/^*«^' Sp PI iii. 1133^ Dalbergia heterophylla, WiUd.; DC. 1 



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