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tliougli paler. Weight, 'when tliorouglily soasouoil, 01 lbs. With that in.sagacity 

 peculiar to 'Departments,' the Pu-douk is largely chosen for planting as a 'roadside' 

 or ' avenue ' tree, for which purpose it is singularly ill fitted, as it atfords little shade 

 ■when shade is mcst required, smells atrociously when in blossom, and is nowise com- 

 parable, for the end in view, to the different species of Ficits and Emjenia. As a 

 timber tree it is surpassed by none — if matched by any, — and the freshly sawn wood 

 is most fragrant. Dr. ilason thus writes of it : " The gum kino tree is a majestic 

 cvergreim, whose yellow papilionaceous flowers, clustering amid the bright drooping 

 foliage, scent the air, like the large nuignolias, for several hundred yards around. It 

 is propagated by simply jilantiug large branches in the ground at the commencement 

 of the rain. There are, however two species, the red and the white, as distinguished 

 by the Burmese, the red producing the finest timber, but the white padouk is by far 

 the finest ornamental tree." Kurz describes both species as shedding their leaves 

 in the hot season, and such is their undoubted habit when planted along roads, but 

 it is not improbable the above luckless and inaccurate passage may have let the 

 'Department' into selecting so inappropriate a tree for roadside planting. The 

 gum exuded by PterocarpuK constitutes the true gum kino of the Pharmacopoeia 

 (Pulv. Kiuo. Co.). According to Dr. Pemberton it possesses the singular property 

 of not acting as an astiingent unless diarrhoea is present. 



P. MACEOCABPUS, Kz. Eare in Promc, common in Tcnasserim. 



Pods almost lj-2 inches in diameter, when young densely velvety-pubescent, 

 the stylose point at the basal corner. Calyx rusty pubescent. 



Dkkeis, Loureiro. 



Filaments alternately shorter. Pod flat, thin or coriaceous, winged along one or 

 both sutures. Trees or woody climbers. Leaflets opposite. 



Sub-genus Brachypieruji, W. A. (Eu-derris, Bth.). 



Standard equally tapering at the base, w'ith or without 2 basal callosities. 

 Stamens monadelphous. Pods narrowly winged along the vexillary suture only. 



""' Standard without basal callosities. 



X Flowers in simple or almost simple racemes. 



+ Pods lanceolate, acuminate or acute at both ends. 



D. (Dalbeuoia) RonnsTA, Wall. T. Pegu. Ava. The Audamans. 



P. Krowee, llo.xb. 



Erect tree. Leaflets almost acute, mucronate. 



D. SCAXDESS, Roxb. F.S.S. Tropical forests all over Burma and the 



Mi-joung-nweh (Kurz). Audamans. Kamorta. 



Scandent shrub. Leaflets notched. 



•\ — f- Pods oblong or orbicular, toith rounded ends. Scandent s/irulis. 



D. (Ponqamia) CLiGixo.sA, DC. F.S.S. Same localities as the last. Is'icobars. 



Galedupa uliginosa, Roxb. 

 All parts, also the pods, glabrous. 



D. ELEGANS, Bth. S.S. Swamp forests of Pegu and Tcnasserim. 



Rusty pubescent. Pods pubescent. 



X X Flowers racemose, collected into panicles. 



D. siNUATA, Thw. S.S. Tropical forests of Pegu and Tcnasserim. 



D. polyarthra, Miq. 

 Myouk-gong-nyin (Kurz). 



Glabrous. Pods siuuately constricted between the seeds. Corolla ^ inch long. 

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