246 L. LEGUMINOSJ:. (J. G. Baker.) [fierris. 



densely pubescent branches, pedicels exceeding the calyx, corolla middle-sized, 

 pod fmely pubescent with the wing down the lower suture distinct or obscure. 

 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 109. Robinia ferruginea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 329. Ponganiia ferruginea, Wall. Cat. 5885. P. oblonga, Wall. Cat. 

 5893. 



EASTERN HIMALAYAS, tropical zone, ASSAM and SILHET. BIRMA, Wallich. 



Branchlets clothed with dense ferruginous pubescence. Leaflets 4-6 in. long, cus- 

 pidate or subobtuse, rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, 

 finely pubescent, especially on the main raised veins beneath. Panicles axillary, pedun- 

 ded, il ft. long, with slender ascending branches, clothed with dense ferruginous 

 pubescence; pedicels in., fascicled and nodes often produced into branchlets. Calyx 

 ^Jn. ; teeth deltoid, minute. Corolla rose-red, three times the. length of the calyx; 

 standard emarginate, in. broad. Young pod densely brown-silky ; old nearly gla- 

 bresoent, 2-3 in. by 1 in., oblong or ligulate -oblong, rigid in texture, obscurely veined 

 on the faces, the sutures much raised, the wing of the upper -% in. broad, the wing of 

 the lower one sometimes not perceptible. 



21. D. canarensis, Baker; leaflets 15-21 middle-sized oblanceolate- 

 oblong pubescent beneath, flowers in terminal panicles with pubescent branches, 

 standard callose, pod winged down the lower suture. Pongamia canarensis, 

 Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 37. Brachypterum canarense, Dalz fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 76. 



CONCAN, near Grarsuppa, Dalzell. 



Leavfs a ft. long ; leaflets 2-2^ in. by in., glabrous above. Panicles terminal, 

 shorter than the leaves ; racemes simple, the branches ferrugineo-pubescent ; pedicels 

 fascicled in threes. Corolla reddish. Ovary hirsute, 2-3 ovuled. Pod flat, oval or 

 elliptic, pointed at both ends winged on both sides, 1^ in. long. Dalzell, loc. cit. 

 Appears to connect Paraderris and Dipteroderris. 



SECT. III. Ag-anope, Miguel. Habit of Euderris, but the racemes in 

 ample thyrsoid panicles, with the nodes not produced into branchlets, and the 

 upper stamen- distinctly free from the rest down to the base. 



22. D. sinuata, Thwaites Enum. 93 ; leaflets subobtuse half as long 

 again as broad, pedicels as long as the calyx, pod large deeply indented between 

 the seeds narrowly winged down the upper suture. Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. 

 iv., Suppl. 113. Pongamia sinuata, Wall. Cat. 5911. P. grandifolia, Grah. in 

 Wall. Cat. 5882, not Zoll. $ Moritz. 



PEGU, MARTABAN, TENASSERTM, MALACCA, CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



A robust climber, with glabrous branches and leaves. Leaflets 5-7, ovate- or 

 obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, all but the main veins immersed. 

 Panicles ^1 ft. long, with numerous ascending thinly brown-silky branches ; pedicels 

 ^-\ in. Calyx in., thinly silky, broadly campanulate, circumscissile above the base. 

 Corolla % in., turning dark purple when dried ; standard erect, with a round ecallose 

 blade. Pod very different from that of any of the other species, 1-4-seeded, 2-8 in. 

 by 1-1 in., smooth, firm, finely veined, the wing usually not more than ^ in. broad, 

 and sometimes not perceptible. 



23. D. thyrsiflora, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 114; leaflets 

 acute twice as long as broad, pedicels close very, short, pod comparatively small 

 not indented 'between the seeds, both sutures distinctly winged. Millettia 



' thyrsiflora, Benth. PI. Jungh. 249. Arnerimnum obovatum, Hamilt. MSS. 

 Pongamia ? Wall. Cat. 9054. Aganope floribunda, Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. 151. 



EASTERN HIMALAYAS and the KHASIA Mts., ascending to 4000 ft.; EASTERN PENIN- 

 t STILA. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



A robust climber, with glabrous branches and leaves. Leaflets 5-9, oblong or 



