FABACEJE, OR LEGUMINOSJE. 



529. P. Marsupium Roxb. carom, ii. t l\Q. fl. ind. iii. 234. 

 DC. prodr. ii. 418. W. and A. i. 266. P. bilobus G. Don syst. 

 ii. 376. Circar mountains. 



Trunk erect, very high, scarcely ever'found straight. Bark, with the 

 outer coat brown, spongy, falling off in flakes ; inwardly red, fibrous, 

 and astringent. Branches spreading, horizontal, numerous, extending 

 far. Leaves sub-bifarious, alternate, pinnate with an odd one, 8 or 9 

 inches long. Leaflets 5, 6, or 7, alternate, elliptic, emarginate, firm, 

 above shining, and deep green ; below less so, from 3 to 5 inches long 

 and 2 or 3 broad; petioles round, smooth, waved from leaflet to leaflet, 

 5 or 6 inches long ; stipules none. Panicles terminal, very large ; rami- 

 fications bifarious, like the leaves. Peduncles and pedicels round, a 

 little downy. Bractes small, caducous, solitary below each division and 

 sub-division of the panicle. Flowers very numerous, white, with a 

 small tinge of yellow. Vexillum with a long slender claw, very broad ; 

 sides reflexed, waved, curled, veined; keel 2-petalled, adhering slightly 

 for a little way near the middle, waved &c. as the vexillum. Filaments 

 10, united in 1 body near the base, but soon splitting into 2 bodies 

 of 5 each. Anthers globose, 2-lobed. Ovary oblong, pedicelled, hairy, 

 generally 2-celled; cells transverse, and 1 -seeded. Style ascending. 

 Legume f-orbicular, the upper remainder, which extends from the 

 pedicel to the remains of the style, straight, the whole surrounded with 

 a waved, veined, downy, membranous wing, swelled, rugose, and woody 

 in the centre, where the seed is lodged, not opening; generally 1, though 

 sometimes 2-celled. Seed solitary, kidney-shaped. Roxburgh sus- 

 pects this to be the tree that produces gum kino, a well-known astrin- 

 gent. The red juice hardens into a dark red very brittle gum-resin, 

 which on being powdered changes to a light brown not unlike powdered 

 Peruvian bark. Its taste is strongly but simply astringent. The real 

 kino tree appears however to be the next. 



530. P. erinaceus Lam. diet. v. 728. illustr. t. 602. f. 4. DC. 

 prodr. ii. 419. Fl. senegamb. i. 229. t. 54. P. Adansonii 

 DC. 1. c. P. senegalensis] Hooker in Grays trav. in west, 

 afr. 395. t. D. Drepanocarpus senegalensis N. and E. handb. 

 iii. 184. Woods of the Gambia, about Albreda and Isle aux 

 chiens ; in Senegal, near Cacundi. (Wegne of the natives.) 



A tree 40-50 feet high. Leaves unequally pinnate, smooth above, 

 downy beneath; leaflets 11-15, alternate, distant, on short stalks, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse or emarginate, wavy at the edge ; stipules lanceolate, 

 villous, deciduous. Racemes solitary or clustered, downy, from the 

 old wood, below the young branches, much shorter than the leaves. 

 Flowers yellow. Legume stipitate, compressed, membranous, velvety, 

 sinuated and undulated, prickly on the centre. When the branches 

 are wounded a red juice flows which hardens upon exposure to the air 

 and becomes a dark-coloured brittle, glittering, astringent substance, 

 the real original gum kino of the shops. 



531. P. Draco Linn. mant. 438. DC. prodr. ii. 415. 

 P. officinalis Jaeq. amer. 283. 1. 183. f.92. P. hemipterus Gcertn. 

 1. 156. f. 2. Woods of Tierra Bomba near Carthagena, Guade- 

 loupe, c. 



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