9 



PTEROCARPUS MARSUPIUM. 



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115. 



DALBERGIA RUBIGINOSA 



Tella-tiga of the Telingas. 



where the seed is lodged, not opening, generally one, some- 

 times two-cell'd. 

 See d solitary, kidney-form. 



Trunk large, woody, running over the highest trees. The Bark 



rust-colour, pretty smooth. Branchlets alternate, two-faced, 

 winding, short, rigid, erect. 



Leaves alternate, two-faced, feather'd, with an odd one, from four 



to six inches long. 



aflets 



This species grows to a very large tree ; it is a native of our 

 Circar mountains. Flowering time, the wet season. 



The wood is much esteemed by the natives, and serves for va- 

 rious uses. It is of a yellowish, orange-colour, very hard and 

 durable, but, at the same time, not very heavy. 



sessile, oblong : the exterior several times larger than the in- 

 terior ; smooth on both sides, entire, firm, with many very fine 

 parallel veins : the exterior one about two and a half or three 

 inches long, and three-fourths broad. 

 Petiole round, downy. 



Stipules oval, small, covered with goose -dung -green -coloured 



117. 



MANISURIS MYURUS 



Linn. Mant. 300. 



d 



own. 



Spikes axillary, compound, small. 



Peduncles downy. 



Bractes small, downy. 



Filaments ten, conjoined as in Dalbergia latifolia 



Nalla Panoocoo of the Telingas. 



A large, woody, climbing species, a native of the mountains 

 Flowers during the hot season. 



Culms several, ramous, diffuse near the base, rooting at the joints, 



extremities ascending, from nine to eighteen inches long, as 

 thick as a crow's quill, compressVl, smooth, not piped. 



Leaves small and smooth, mouth of the sheath increased by a lace- 



rated, membranous border [a 



St 



J 



one or 



two inches long. 



/ 



duncl 



116. 



PTEROCARPUS MARSUPIUM 



d 



foreside of the spike ; while the male possess the two sides ; 



Yeangashaw of the Telingas. 



ck is naked 



HERMAPHRODITE FLOWERS. 



Trunk erect, very high. Bark: outer coat brown, spongy, falling Calyx two-valved, one-flower'd : exterior valvelet has a broad, co- 



offin flakes; inwardly red and fibrous. 

 Branches spreading, horizontal, very numerous. 

 Leaves nearly two-faced, alternate, feather'd with an odd one; eight 



or nine inches long. Leaflets alternate, oval, emarginate, firm, 



above shining, deep green, below less so ; from three to five 



inches long, and about two or three broad. 

 Petiole round, smooth, waved, from leaflet to leaflet, five or six 



inches long. 



lour'd margin, which is end-nick'd, and deeply indented 



- 



at the sides ; inner valvelet oblong, lodged in the pit of the 



rachis. 

 Corol two-valved, membranous. 

 JVectary : two white, inverse-egg'd, crenulated scales, embrace the 



germ. 

 Stamens three. 



Styles two. 



Ipul 



es none. 



MALE FLOWERS. 



ing, horizontal. 



branches alternate, spread 



Calyx 



fl 



two-valved: valvelets nearly equal, boat- 



i 



P 



d 



emb 



bd 



the panicle. 



Stamens three. 

 Pistil 



none. 



Flowers papilionaceous, very numerous, white, with a small tinge 



of yellow. 



Banner with a long slender claw, very broad: sides reflex, waved, 



curl'd, vein'd. 

 Whips with claws, as above, oval, waved, curl'd. vein'd. 



A native of dry, elevated, sandy ground. 



Keel 



d 



adhering slightly for a little way near the middle 



body near the b 



into two : these are again each subdivided into five. 



o 



obose. two-lobed. 



Germ oblong, pedicel'd, hairy. 

 Style ascending. 



rb 



which extends from the pedicel to the remains of the style, 



Explanation of the Figures. 



a. Mouth of the sheath of one of the leaves, a little magnified 



b. Part of the foreside of a spike. 



c. Part of the back of the same. 



d. Calyx of the hermaphrodite flower. 



e. Corol of the same. 

 Its germ, 8cc. 



gg. Nectary. 



h. Calyx of the male flower. 



i. The two male florets. 



All are much magnified. 



g, is swell'd, rugose, and woody 



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