234 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. PterOCavpUS. 



axillary, few- flowered. Filaments in two equal bodies. Le- 

 gume oval, one-seeded. 

 A native of Chittaffonff. 



PTEROCARPUS. Schreh. gen. N. 1159. 



Calyx campanulate, five-toothed. Legume* nearly round, 

 leafy margined, varicose, one or more-celled ; cells one- 

 seeded. 



1. P. sautalinus. Willd, iii. 906. 



Leaves ternate, with sub-rotund, retuse, smooth leaflets. 

 Racemes axillary. 



Sans. Chandana. 



Beng. Chundana, or RMkta-ch?/ndMn. 



A native of Coromandel, Flowering time the hot season. 



For a full description, see Supplementum plantarum. Linn. 

 p. 318. Willd. iii. 90G, &c. 



2. P. marsupium. Willd. iii. 905. R. Corom. pi. ii. No. 116. 



Leaves pinnate; leaflets from five to seven, alternate, el- 

 liptic, eniargiuate. Panicles terminal. Stamens ten in two 

 bodies, coalesced near the base. 



Teling. Yeanga-sha. 



Beng. Peet-Sal. 



This species, which grows to be a very large tree, seems 

 not to have been taken notice of by any writer that I have 

 met with. It is a native of the Circar mountains. Flowering 

 time, the beginning of the rains, and the seed ripens about 

 the close of the year. 



Trunk erect, very high, though scarcely ever found straight. 

 Bark, outer coat brown, spongy, falling oft' in flakes ; inward- 

 ly red, fibrous, and astringent. Branches spreading, horizon- 



* It rather deserves the name of a compressed^ ligneous^ varicose, 

 one or more-celled^ winged nut. 



