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Pterocarpus, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 237 
feet high, blossoming during the rains in June and July 
chiefly, and ripening their seeds eight months after. 
Trunk straight. Bark pretty smooth for so large a tree, 
ash-coloured. Branches numerous, spreading. Branchlets 
alternate, bifarious; young shoots somewhat scabrous, with 
small gray dots. Leaves bifarious, alternate, pinnate, spread- 
ing, from six to twelve inches long. Leaflets about four or 
five pair, with a single terminal one, alternate, short petiolet- 
ted ; the inferior ones ovate-oblong ; the superior ones long- 
er, and narrower in proportion, all are entire, and smooth on 
both sides, from two to three inches long. Petioles round, 
smooth, about six inches long. Stipules none. Panicles ter- 
minal, ramifications alternate, bifarious, expanding with their 
extremities, while young of a beautiful dark greenish violet- 
colour. Bractes one-flowered, ovate, villous, small, cadu- 
cous, Flowers papilionaceous, alternate, solitary, short-pe- 
dicelled, pure yellow, delightfully fragrant. Calyx somewhat 
gibbous ; mouth of five, unequal divisions, the upper two 
being by far the largest. Coro ; vextd/um oval ; margins re- 
flexed back and beautifully curled. Wings projecting, 
long-clawed, pressing on the calyx, with margins curled, as 
in the vexillum, Keel of two small petals. Filaments two, 
most distinct, as in Dalbergia, hence the specific name; above’ 
the middle they divide into five, alternately with somewhat 
shorter filaments each. Anihers oval. Germ swelled, villous, 
dark greenish, violet. Style subulate. Stigma acute. Legume 
two-celled, pedicelled, sub-rotund, a small part of the upper 
margin only being more straight, the whole surrounded with 
a broad, air bieiaicedtia' margin ; the centre where one or two 
seeds are lodged, is of a firm, ligneous, fibrous, tough texture, 
not opening spontaneously, Seeds reniform, a single one in 
each cell, 
“On the Andaman Islands, where the tree is faligesoall it 
grows to an immense size. I have seen planks of it brought 
> from thence, y hich were four feet in diameter, of coloured 
wood ; - and if six or r eight i inches be allowed for the white wood 
