ORD. XXIV. PAPILIONACE. 
PTEROCARPUS ERINACEUS. AFRICAN PTEROCARPUS, OR 
KINO TREE. 
SYNONYMA.  Pterocarpus erinaceus. Lam. Dict. v. p. 728.: Illustr. t. 
602. 7. 4.; Decand. Prodr. v.2.p.419. Pterocarpus Senegalensis ; foliis 
pinnatis, foliolis ovalibus, fructibus lunato-orbiculatis, pubescentibus. 
Hook. in Gray's Travels in Western Africa, p. 395. t. D. 
Class Diadelphia. Order Decandria. 
Nat. Ord. Papilionacee, Linn. Leguminose, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Calyx five-toothed; legume falcate, leafy, with tumid veins, 
bordered with a wing, not bursting ; seeds somewhat solitary, 
Spec. Char. Leaves pinnate; leaflets alternate, elliptical, obtuse, smooth 
above, reddish and pubescent beneath ; legume with a very short straight 
point. 
THIS species of Pterocarpus is a middling-sized tree; the branches are 
spreading, and covered with an ash-coloured bark. The leaves are decidu- 
ous, pinnated ; deqfiets are alternate, ovate, obtuse, entire, somewhat larger 
at the base, thin, smooth above, pubescent, and of a reddish tint beneath, 
and placed on short foot-stalks. The flowers are produced in compound ter- 
aminal racemes, supported on short, curved pedicels, with a pair of small, 
lanceolate bracteas at the base of each pedicel. The calyx is bell-shaped, un- 
equally toothed, pubescent, and furnished with a pair of small awl-shaped 
bracteas. The flowers, which are numerous, soon fall off; the corolla is of 
