264 LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) [ Pterocarpus. 
branches and twigs. Common petiole 6-12 inches long, the pair of leaflets 1-1 inch 
apart. Leaflets very pale green, at first densely velvetty, canescent beneath, after- 
wards becoming naked, and when old quite glabrous. Panicles 6 inches long, alter- 
nately branched, the branches racemose, many-flowered. Calyx silvery, 3 lines long. 
Corolla purplish-pink. Flowers sweetly-scented. Ovary silky. Legumes 3-4 inches 
long, } inch wide, strongly compressed, of a parchment-like substance. A native 
also of Mozambique and Abyssinia, 
LXII. PTEROCARPUS, L. 
Calyx turbinate-campanulate, acute at base, oftener incurved, 5-toothed, 
sub-bilabiate. Petals of the carina at back near the apex shortly con- 
nate or nearly free. Stamens 10, sometimes monadelphous with a split 
tube ; sometimes equally diadelphous, and sometimes diadelphous, g—1. 
Anthers versatile, Ovary 6-8-ovuled. Legume compressed, indehiscent, 
orbicular or ovate, more or less oblique or falcate, with a lateral or 
rarely terminal style, bearing seeds in the middle, more or less indu- 
rated or thickened, with a surrounding membranous wing or sharp 
ridge, sometimes almost completely attenuate-coriaceous or membran- 
ous. Seeds 1-3, separated by hard partitions. Benth./ in Journ. Linn: 
- Unarmed, tropical and subtropical trees of both hemispheres. Leaves alternate, 
. Leaflets alternate or irregularly opposite, without stipelle. Racemes 
- Flowers yellow, rarely whitish, with violet shades, ofte 
- Name ™TEpOV, & wing, and Kapmos, a fruit 
Species of Pterocarpus, — 
_ 1. P. sericeus (Benth.! 1. ¢. p. 7 5); leaflets 3-5, broadly ovate, shin- 
ing silky beneath or on both sides ; legume shortly stipitate, ovate-sub- 
orbicular, with a coriaceous wing. Dalbergia rotundifolia, Sond. ! in 
Linn. 23, p. 35. 
; upper surface puberulous, at length gla- 
-2 inches long Flowers 
minutely stipitate-elliptical, 
delphous, with 
netted at the seed, et , the 16 Margins 
in Journ. Linn, Soo, 4, Suppl. p. 2 
ernate, nating shrubs natives of the warmer zoner of both hemispheres, Leaves 
alternate, impari-pinnate, the leaflets exstipellate and shown alternate. Inflores 
— dicbesoanieats cymose or irregularly panicled, axill or terminal. Flowers 
small, often numerous, » Violet or white? Named in hen, ichok - 
beng, a Swedish botanist.” “Olt ses a" = 
eer eee 
thickened nor winged. Benth.! 
