238 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Pterocarpus. 
Pods distinctly stalked, with a wing at least as broad as the 
disk. 
Style slightly oblique. 
Flowers in lax racemes; pedicels 4-6 lines long . . . . 3. P. lucens. 
Flowers in ample panicles; pedicels 2-3 lines long . . . 4. P. melliferus. 
Style so much deflexed that it is nearly parallel with the 
pedicel. 
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Disk of pod densely muricated with fragile spines . . . 6. P. erinaceus. 
1. P. simplicifolius, Baker. A small tree with woody terete 
glabrous branches. Petioles firm, glabrous, }—3 in. long; leaves 
simple, broad-ovate or roundish, 2-24 in. long, blunt or subacute, 
coriaceous, rigid, glabrous, glaucous-green, the veins slightly raised. 
Flowers in 6—12-flowered lax axillary racemes, the peduncle and rachis 
each an inch long; the pedicels spreading 4—5 lines long, glabrous. 
Calyx turbinate, glabrous, 2-24 lines deep, the teeth very short, deltoid. 
Corolla pale yellow, $—2 in. deep, the upper stamen free. Pod broad- 
oblong, 14-12 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, tapering at the base to a short 
stalk, the centre slightly raised, the faces glabrous and glaucous, the 
wing rigid, 4-6 lines broad, the veins slightly raised, the style slightly 
oblique. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter! 
Closely resembles P. lucens in everything except its simple leaves. 
2. P. esculentus, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 330. An erect tree 
25-30 ft. high with terete branches, the young twigs thinly silky. 
Petioles about an inch long, firm; leaves 3-6 in. long; leaflets 5-9, 
ovate or oblong, pointed, 2—4 in. long, the base rounded, coriaceous, 
both sides glabrous, veins not much raised. Flowers in dense axillary 
racemes 3—6 in. long, on short woody peduncles. Pedicels 4 in. long, 
cernuous, thinly silky. Calyx turbinate, } in. deep, thinly silky, the 
teeth irregularly deltoid, reaching a quarter of the way down. Corolla 
yellowish, not twice as long as the calyx, the standard half an inch 
broad. Stamens monadelphous. Pod roundish, sessile, 14 in. broad, 
the centre much thicker and more verrucose than in the other species, 
the faces glabrous, the rigid wing very narrow and sometimes absent 
from one side, the style slightly oblique-—Benth. l. c. 78. P. santa- 
linoides, L’Her., DC. Prod. ii. 419.? 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Sierra Leone, Oldfield! Afzelius! 
Guinea proper, Thonning, Barter! Vogel! Mann! Fernando Po, Mann! 
The seeds are eatable, but when raw have an intoxicating effect. The species has 
been gathered in America, but may have been planted there. 
3. P. lucens, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 229. A small tree with woody 
glabrous branches. Petiole firm, glabrous, 4—3 in. long; rachis 1-4 
in. long 5 leatlets 3-7, oblong, 14—2 in. long, both ends rounded, coria- 
ceous, both sides glaucous with the veins slightly raised, the upper 
surface glabrous, lower finely grey-silky when young. Flowers in lax 
12—20-flowered racemes, the peduncle an inch long, the rachis 2-3 in., 
the lower flowers drooping with glabrous spreading pedicels 4-6 lines 
long. Calyx turbinate, glabrous, 1 in. deep, the teeth short, deltoid, 
