384 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Dalbergia. 



A large and pretty deciduous tree with grey smooth bark 

 and white moderately hard wood of no great value. 

 Flowers pinkish or bluish-white. Yern. Tel. Terra patsaru ; 

 Tarn. Erigei. 



15. DALBERGIA VOLUBILIS, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 191 ; F. B. I. ii. 

 235 ; W. & A. 265 ; Pram Ann. Calc. x. 100, t. 85. 

 All dry Districts, in deciduous forests. 

 A large woody climber with light brown hard wood, the 

 flowers pale blue. 



Dalbergia Sissoo, Roxb., a tree of river beds in the Subhinia- 

 layan tract of N. India and valuable for its hard dark brown wood 

 used for furniture and Ordnance purposes, is often planted in 

 S. India and may sometimes be found run wild. 



54. Pterocarpus, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate, 

 usually coriaceous ; stipules small, deciduous ; stipels 0. Flowers 

 yellowish, in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles; bracts 

 small, deciduous ; bracteoles 2, caducous. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late, somewhat curved ; teeth short, the 2 upper often subconnate. 

 Corolla exserted, the petals all long-clawed; standard orbicular, 

 crisped at the margin ; wings oblique, the margins also crisped ; 

 keel-petals oblique, smaller, slightly connate. Stamens 10, the 

 filaments connate in a tube split above, sometimes split in 2 bundles 

 of 5, sometimes the vexillary filament free ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile or stalked ; ovules 2-6 ; style filiform, incurved, 

 beardless ; stigma capitate. Pod orbicular, compressed, with a 

 broad wing, the style turned down towards the stipe. Seeds 1 

 rarely 2, oblong or subreniform ; hilum small. 



Flowers axillary, in simple or sparingly branched racemes ; leaflets 

 usually 3, rarely 4-5, broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, slightly 

 emarginate ; pod with '35 in. long stipe, concavely curved between 



the stipe and style... 1. santalinus. 



Flowers in terminal panicles ; leaflets 5-7 from elliptic-oblong, obtuse 

 emarginate or even bilobed at apex to ovate acuminate ; pod with 

 2 in. long stipe, convexly curved between the stipe and style 



2. Marsupiuin* 



1. PTEROCARPUS SANTALINUS, Linn, f . ; F.B.I, ii. 239 , W. & A. 

 266; Bedd. Fl. t, 22. 



