238 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Pterocarpus. 
on the outside, which is not overrating it, the tree will have 
been above fifteen feet in- circumference. The wood is not un- 
like Mahogany, but rather redder, heavier, and courser in 
the grain. That of the root is most beautifully variegated, I _ 
may say marbled, closer grained, and darker coloured. 
A, P; indicus. Willd. ed. sp. iii. 994, 
Leaflets from six to fifieen, alternate, ovate, firm and po- 
lished on both sides. Stipules ensiform, | Racemes axillary. 
Filaments ten, in two equal portions, . Fruit nearly orbicu- 
lar, from one to three-seeded, 
Lingoum saxatile. Rumph. Amb. ii, t. 70. 
A tree of considerable size; a native of China, the Moluc- 
cas, and eastern parts of Fie From the former it has been 
brought to Calcutta, and now, April 1808, a young tree is in 
flower in Sir Jobn Royds’ garden. Its trunk is straight, with 
smooth, olive-coloured bark, and few, long, waving branches, 
with their extremities generally es much, In its scanty 
ramification, it differs widely from my Plerocarpus dalber- 
ghoides which it most resembles in other respects. In that tree — 
the branches are more numerous with many alternate bifari- 
ous, spreading, never drooping branchlets, forming a large 
spreading head, : 
Leaves alternate, pinnate, cis or fifteen inches lon: 
Leaflets from six to fifteen, alternate, petioletted, ovate, en- 
_ tire, with an emarginate point, firm and polished on both 
sides ; from three to four inches long, and from two to two 
and a half broad. Petioles flexuous, slightly channelled, 
smooth, Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Racemes axillary, 
aiken: compound, and a much larger panicle of simple ra- 
- cemes terminates the branchlets. Flowers numerous, deep. 
yellow, and very fragrant. Bractes of the pedicel 
eolate ; of the calyx two, and smaller, all cadu- 
toothed; ‘the upper two, larger. Banner with a long. 
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