526 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE ASD PRODUCTIOJS. 



M. FEUTicosA, Roxb. S.S. Pegu. 



Flowers roso-colourcd. Kaccmes mucli slioiter than the petiole. Leaflets obtuse. 

 Pods tawny or brown tomentose. 



° ° Leaflets glaucous heneath, Jong- and caudate-acuminate. Branches grey. 



M. CATJDATA, Bth. 8.8. 

 Tephrosia uropJiylla, Wall. 



Low scandent shrub, almost glabrous. 



* * Pods indeliiscent, usual/g many or several-seeded {Dalbergt'ea). 

 X I'ods ■wingless. 



PoxGASiiA, Vcntenat. 



Filaments long. Pod flattisb, firmly fleshy coriaceous. Leaflets opposite. 



P. (Eobinia) mitis, L. Coasts of Arakan, Tonasserim, the Andamans, 



P. glabra, Yent. and Kicobars. 



Galcdupa Lidica, Lamk. 



Theng-weng or Thi-wyn (Kurz). 



Kurz describes the timber as white, turning yellowish, and fibrous. It must 

 not be confounded with the true Thyt-tcyn {Milletfia pendula), to which it bears no 

 resemblance either in look or qualities. It is, however, a graceful tree, with glabrous 

 green leaves. The seeds arc bean-shaped, and yield an oil, used in lamps and for 

 some industrial purposes, but bitter and acrid, and used externally only as a cure 

 for itch. A maund of seeds will yield thirteen pounds and a half of oil, at a net cost 

 of a little over two rupees. It would make a good road-side or avenue tree. 



DEEPAKocAKPrs, Li. Meyer. 



Filamoits alternately shorter. Pods reniform or crescent-shaped, coriaceous or 

 drupaceous, 1-3-seeded. i^/o«-(TS white or purple. Zf(7^f/.s alternate. 

 Sub-genus Eu-drepanocarpus. (Trees or woody climbers.) 

 8tamens united into a single sheath. 



X Corolla glabrous. Pods xisually l-seeded {8elenolobium, Eth.). 



D. srixosus, Eosb. 8.8. Chittagong to Tenasserim. 



Te-chin-ye (Kurz). 



Leaflets i inch long. Calj-x a line long. 



This and the following are referred by Bentham to Balhergia, but the pods are 

 not winged and the cell-cavity extends from suture to suture. Strictly speaking, the 

 pods of Dalbergia cannot be called winged, for the broad thin margins of the pod are 

 simply consolidated so as to leave (as in Ptcrocarpus) only a central cavity for tho 

 seed (Kurz). Kurz too says the powdered root absorbs alcohol, and consequently, 

 if administered in water, destroys the eflects of alcoholic intoxication ! ! 



D. MONOspERiiA, Dalz. Tidal forests of Upper Tenasserim. 



Leaflets about an inch long. Calyx H Unes deep. 



Sub-genus Pongajiiopsis. 



8tamens united into 2 separate sheaths. Corolla glabrous. Pods 1-3-secded, 

 moniliform-constricted between the seeds. 



D. (Daxbeegia) EEXiTOEiiis, Ruxb. Pegu and Tenasserim. 



Htouk-ma (Kurz). 



Curious on account of the joints being dimoi-phous on the same or on different 

 pods. They are either normally thick-coriaceous and as flat as those of the following 

 species, and have the seeds much compressed ; or they are firmly fleshy and up to 



