Pongawia.] LEGUMINOSAE. 385 



Deccan, in the Hills of Cuddapah, S. Kurnool, N". Arcot 

 and Chingleput, up to 1,500 ft. Red Sanders. 

 A very pretty and valuable moderate-sized tree, found only 

 on a limited area. Bark blackish-brown deeply cleft into 

 rectangular plates ; wood extremely hard, dark claret red 

 to nearly black, used for house-posts, carvings and as a dye. 

 Vern. Tel. Terra chandanum. 



2. PTEEOCARPUS MARSUPIUM, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 116; F. B. I. 

 ii. 239; W. & A. 266 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 21. 



All forest Districts, chiefly in deciduous forest, up to 

 4,500 ft, 



A large deciduous tree, one of the most valuable in the 

 Madras forests. Bark thick, grey, with vertical cracks. 

 Wood very hard, yellowish-brown with darker streaks, used 

 for building, furniture, agricultural and railway purposes. 

 It gives a red gum-resin "Kino," used in medicine. Vern. 

 Hind. Bijasal; Ur. Byasa ; Tel. Yegi ; Tain. Vengai ; Kan. 

 Honne ; Mai. Yenga. 

 Var. cunus. Gamble. Branchlets, leaves beneath, calyx and 



rhachis softly white-silky pubescent ; leaves much smaller ; flowers 



small, in shorter racemes. 



Hills of the Kistna District (Beddonie). 



55. Pongamia, Yent. 



A tree. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite i 

 stipules small ; stipels 0. Flowers in lax axillary racemes, the 

 flowers in fascicles of 2-4 on the rhachis; bracts small, caducous ; 

 bracteoles minute. Calyx campanulate, truncate; teeth obsolete. 

 Corolla much exserted ; standard suborbicular with curved folds 

 above the claw ; wings obliquely oblong, slightly adiiate above the 

 claws to the obtuse keel petals which are joined near the tip. 

 Stamens 10 nionadelphous, the vexillary stamen free below and 

 above ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile ; ovules 2 ; style 

 incurved, beardless ; stigma capitate. Pod obliquely oblong, 

 attenuated at both ends, curved at apex, thick, more or less 

 compressed, indehiscent. Seed 1, reniform, rather thick ; hilum 

 small. 



POXGAMIA GLABRA, Yent.; F. B. I. ii. 240; W. & A. 262^ 



Wt. Ic. t. 59; Bedd. Fl. t. 177. 



Coast forests and on tidal river banks ; inland chiefly along 



