PTEROCARPUS. 



A tree 30 feet high. Leaflets alternate, shining, about 5 on each 

 side and an odd one, oval, rather obtuse, entire, veined, smooth, pale 

 green below ; petioles rather shaggy. Legumes nearly smooth. Bark 

 when wounded yields drops of red juice which soon harden into crimson 

 tears; these are collected under the name of Dragon's Blood, but 

 Jacquin states that, although large quantities were once exported from 

 Carthagena to Spain, yet when he was in the former place (middle of 

 the last century) the commerce had almost ceased. 



532. P. santalinus Linn.f. suppl. 318. Willd. iii. 906. DC. 

 prodr. ii. 419. W. and A. i. 266. Mountains of Coromandel 

 and Ceylon. 



A lofty tree. Leaves alternate, stalked, ternate, rarely pinnate; 

 leaflets alternate, petiolate, the uppermost larger, ovate-roundish, or 

 oblong, entire, emarginate or retuse, smooth above, hoary beneath; 

 stipules 0. Racemes axillary, simple or branched, erect. Bracts 0. 

 Calyx brown. Standard yellow with red veins. Filaments 10, dia- 

 delphous. Legume roundish, stalked, falcate upwards, compressed, 

 smooth, keeled on the lower edge : the keel being membranous and 

 undulated. From this is obtained Red Sandal wood, a timber chiefly 

 used by the dyers and colour manufacturers of the present day ; but 

 also employed to colour several officinal preparations, such as the com- 

 pound tincture of Lavender. 



Tribe II. 

 Nat.syst. ed. 2. p. 153. 



ANDIRA. 



Calyx turbinate-campanulate, 5-toothed; the teeth nearly 

 equal, acute, erect. Corolla papilionaceous, with a roundish 

 emarginate vexillum longer than the carina. Stamens diadel- 

 phous. Ovary containing 3 ovules. Legume stipitate, roundish, 

 hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded, when ripe 2-valved according to Swartz. 

 DC. 



533. A. inermis HBK. DC. prodr. ii. 475. Macfady.fi. jam. 

 i. 323. Geoffraea inermis Swartz Jt. ind. occ. 1255. Wright 

 phil trans. 1777. 512. t. 70. Woodv. 1. 1 12. 8. and C. iii. 1. 144. 

 Guayana and many of the West India Islands. 



A tree of moderate height ; branches suberect at their extremities 

 terete, glabrous, ash-coloured. Leaves alternate, about 1 foot in length, 

 unequally pinnate ; leaflets 5-8-paired, on short roundish ferruginous 

 downy stalks, oblong-lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, for 

 the most part rounded at the base, entire, glabrous, thin, with the 

 nerves scarcely prominent, about 4| inches long, and 1 broad ; petioles 

 minutely downy. Stipules lanceolate, persistent. Panicles terminal, 

 257 s 



