262 LEGUMINOS A, PONGAMIA. 
LX. PONGAMIA. Lam. ill. t. 603.—Galedupa, Lam. ; Roxb. 
Calyx cup-shaped, somewhat truncated and 5-toothed. Corolla papiliona- 
ceous, glabrous. Stamens at first diadelphous at the base and apex and mo- 
nadelphous soit the middle, afterwards usually entirely diadelphous. Le- 
gume more or less compressed, more or less oval, with a short recurved 
point, 1-celled (neither contracted nor with partitions between the seeds), 
1-2-seeded: valves concave on the inside, not separating naturally.—Trees 
or twining shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnated : leaflets opposite. 
At least two very distinct kinds of fruit occur in this genus: one has the legume 
thick edged and the valves of a woody texture: the other has the seminiferous su- 
ture furnished with a short wing, and the valves thinly coriaceous or somewhat 
membranceous and veined. With this last Dalbergia scandens agrees in having a 
small wing along the one edge of the fruit, and in the calyx; but it differs from Pon- 
Dee by the legumes being quite flat and membranaceous all round the seeds and 
tween them.—We omit here Wight's cat. n. 934; we have not seen the flower, 
and the fruit is far from ripe. The leaves are unequally pinnated; leaflets 3-5, op- _ 
posite, elliptic-oblong, with a sudden short obtuse acumination, coriaceous : racemes 
compound and terminal: calyx deeply and regularly 5-cleft: legume obovate, ob- 
lique, obtuse, coriaceous, wingless, l-seeded : seed (very immature) inserted towards 
the middle of the suture; ascending, with a large fleshy lobed arillus at its base. It 
thus appears to belong to Connaraceg, and robably to Hourea. Cajw- Cen 
Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 13, has very similar fruit, but has a short point and two seeds; 
and it is perhaps by mistake that the leaves are in that figure represented abruptly 
pinnated. Cynometra pinnata, Lour., appears also, judging from his short and im- 
perfect description, to be allied. 
_ 805. (1) P. glabra (Vent.:) arboreous: leaflets 2-8-pair, ovate or some- 
times obovate, acuminated, glabrous : racemes axillary, many-flowered, about 
half the length of the leaves ; pedicels in pairs : vexillum with two callosities 
prominent at the base of the limb and decurrent along the claw: ovary with 
two approximated ovules about its middle: legume oblong, nearly sessile, 
thick and somewhat woody, with a short recurved beak, tumid along both 
sutures.—Vent. Malm, t. 28 ; DC. prod. 2. p.416 ; Wall.! L. n. 5978 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 932, 933.—Galedupa Indica, Lam. enc. meth. 2. p.594; Roab. fl. Ind. 
3. p. 239.—Dolichos arborea, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 292.—Robinia mitis, 
m 8p. p. Ph Pr arborea, Willd. sp. 3. p. 901 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 199. 
—Leguminosa rminata, Wall.!? L, m. rs only).—Hheed. 
Mal. 6. 1.35 Lam. ill. t. 603. f. 1. m AUNT SA 
806. (2) P. ovalifolia (W. & A.:) arboreous : leaflets 4-pair, drooping, oval, 
obtuse, glabrous: racemes elongated, disposed along the leafless branches, 
slightly compound ; pedicels slender, arranged along very short minutely- 
bracteated partial peduneles: vexillum without callosities : ovary with two 
approximated ovules about the middle.— Wight ! cat. n. 917. — ; 
We have not seen the fruit: it is probably similar to that of the following. 
807. (3) P. uliginosa (DC) shrübby, twining: leaflets 1-2-pair, ovate ot 
oblong, bluntly acuminated, glabrous qoe MEE pgs] slightly - 
compound, longer than the leaves, with often 1 or2 trifoliolate leaves on their 
lower half ; pedicels arranged along shortish minutely-bracteated partial pe- 
duneles: vexillum without callosities : ovary with 6-7 crowded ovules: le- 
gume oval or orbicular, thinly coriaceous, reticulated, with a recurved hooked 
point, 1-seeded ; seminiferous suture ined.— DC. prod. 2. p. 416 ; Wall. : 
L. n. 5879; Wight! in Hook. bot. mise. 3. p. 301 (sprinted P. religiosa); 
suppl. t. 41 (engraved by mistake P. triphylla); cat. n, 935.—Galedupa uligi- 
nosa, Roxb, fl. Ind. 3. p. 243.—Pterocarpus, n. 416, Linn. ! in herb. Herm. 5 
Jf. zeyl, —P. uliginosa, Roxb. in. E. I. C. mus. tab. 971 ; G. Don in Mill. dict. 
2. p. 377.—Robinia uliginosa, Willd. sp. 3. p. 1133.— Tephrosia uliginosa, Spr. 
