27. Dalbeegia.] 43. PAVILION AC EM* 



Corolla usually only shortly exserted. Wings oblong as long 

 as the broad standard, keel obtuse, petals joined at the tip. 

 St. 9-10, monadelphous or diadelphous 9 + 1 or 5 + 5 

 Ovary sfcipitate few-ovuled.. Style short, stigma capitate 

 Pod flat, usually oblong, thin and veined opp. to the seeds, 

 indehiscent, seeds 1-4. 



Boot-suckers are very common in this genus. ^ The pods usually 

 remain long on the tree, and the seeds germintte within it after it has 

 become softened by the first monsoon rains, the radicle penetrating the 

 pericarp close to the suture. 



Trees. St. 9, sheath split along the top. Lflts, 

 large roundish. 



Lflts, 3-5 cuspidate. Corolla yellowish • 1. Bissoo, 

 Lflts. 5-7 orbicular obtuse or emarginate. 



Fls. white 2. latifolia* 



Trees. St. diadelphous, 5 + 5. 



Fls. pedicelled. Corolla pale-pink. Upper 



calyx-lobes obtuse .... 3. lanceolaria. 



Fls. sub-sessile. Corolla bluish-white. All 



calyx-lobes acute 4 paniculate. 



Climbing shrubs. 



St. 5 + 5. Lflts. 1" and more long . . 5. volubilis. 



St. 9 + 1. Lflts. J-l" long , 6. tamarindifolia. 



1- D. Sissoo, Roxb. Shisham, JET. The Sissn. 



Lflts. usually 5, broadly ell., ovate or obovate or orbicular 

 cuspidate, 1-3''. Panicles dense, densely pubescent, 2-3" long. 

 Cor. yellowish, twice the calyx or less. Pod strap-shaped 

 stipitate with cuneate base 1-3", 1-3 rarely 4-seeded. 



This well-known tree is not native in Ch. Nagpur, and is never seen to 

 grt xt advantage there, though commonly planted. Miserable specimens 

 put into heavy clay, a soil entirely unsuited to it, are often seen along 

 road-sides. Fls. with the new leaves in March-April. The pods ripen in 

 next cold weather and usually remain on the tree until the flowering 

 season. Seeds germinate June-July f 



2. D, latifolia, Roxb. Kiri, K. ; Mahle, Satsayar, S. ; 

 Sitsal, E, j Blackwood, Rosewood, 



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