238 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. PterOCavpUS. 



on the outside, wliicli is not overrating- it, the tree will have 

 been above fifteen feet in circumference. The veood is not un- 

 like Maho^rany, but rather retlder, heavier, and courser in 

 the grain. That of the root is most beautifully variegated, I 

 may say marbled, closer grained, and darker coloured, 



4. P. indicHS. Willd. ed. sp. iii. 9dA. 



Leaflets from six to fifteen, alternate, ovate, firm and po- 

 lished on both sides. Stipules emii'orm. T^ac^nes axillary. 

 Filaments ten, in two equal portions. Fniit nearly orbicu- 

 lar, from one io three- seeded. 



Lingoum saxatile. Rumph. Ainh. ii. t. 70, 



A tree of considerable size; a native of China, the Moluc- 

 cas, and eastern parts of Asia, From the former it has been 

 brought to Calcutta, and now, April 1808, a young tree is in 

 flower in Sir John Royds' garden. Its trunk is straight, with 

 smooth, olive-coloured bark, and few, long*, waving branches, 

 with their extremities generally drooping much. In its scanty 

 ramification, it differs widely from my Pterocarpus dalber- 

 gioides 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, twelve or fifteen inches long. 

 Leaflets from six to fifteen, alternate, petioletted, ovate, en- 

 tire, with an eniarginate point, firm and polished on both 

 sides ; from three to four inches long, and from two to two 

 and a half broad. Petioles fiexuous, slightly channelled, 

 smooth. Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Racemes axillary, 

 often compound, and a much larger panicle of simple ra- 

 cemes terminates the branchlets. Flowers numerous, deep 

 orange yellow, and very fragrant. Bracten of the pedicel 

 solitary, lanceolate; of the calyx two, and smaller, all cadu- 

 cous at a very early period. Cabjx short, sub-cylindric, five- 

 toothed ; the upper two, larger. Banner with a long claw, 

 nearly round, erect, and rugose. Wings also curled, and 



