412 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Hardivickia. 



73. Hardwickia, Roxb. 



Large tree. Leaves paripiniiate, leaflets 1 pair with a minute 

 bristle between; stipules small, caducous; stipels 0. Flowers 

 small, numerous, in panicled racemes ; bracts minute ; bracteoles 

 scale-like. Calyx-tube scarcely any ; lobes usually 5, orbicular, 

 petaloid, round the small basal disk, much imbricate. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile, free, 

 2-ovuled; style filiform; stigma large, peltate. Pod a dry 1-seeded 

 follicle, the seed at the apex where the pod dehisces, the base 

 samaroid. Seed pendulous, obovate, compressed, 2-furrowed ; 

 te"sta crustaceous ; albumen ; cotyledons large, 2-grooved. 

 HARDWICKIA BINATA, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. 6, t. 209; F. B. I. ii. 

 270 ; W. & A. 284 ; Bedd. FL t. 26. 



Deccan and Carnatic, in the Upper Godavari forests, Kistna 

 and Guntur, in the Ceded Districts, Mysore, Coimbatore and 

 Salem, often forming gregarious forests. 



A large deciduous tree with small yellowish flowers and 

 Bauhinia-like leaflets. Bark dark grey, rough; wood ex- 

 tremely hard and heavy, dark red, streaked with black or 

 purple, used for agricultural and many other purposes, but 

 difficult to work. The leaves are cut for manure and the 

 branchlets for the fibre of their bark. Yern. Hind. Anjan ; 

 Tel. Tepi; Tarn. Acha; Kan. Kamra. 



73. Kingiodendron, Harms. 



Large tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the lower leaflets alternate, 

 leaflets 4-7 ; stipules minute, caducous ; stipels 0. Flowers very 

 small, numerous, in panicles of racemes ; bract ovate, very small, 

 as are the 2 minute bracteoles. Calyx-tube almost wanting, disk 

 very small ; lobes 5, orbicular, gland-dotted,- imbricate. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10 equal ; filaments filiform, villous at base ; anthers 

 versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile, villous at base, 

 2-ovuled; style subulate ; stigma minute, oblique. Pod coriaceous 

 or nearly woody, obovate, 1-seeded, the seed at the apex when the 

 pod deMsces. Seed pendulous, compressed ; testa membranous ; 

 cotyledons with balsam-bearing cells. 



KINGIODENDRON PINNATUM, Harms in Eiigl. & Prantl Naturl. 



Pfl. Nacht. 194. Hardtvichia pinnata, Roxb., F. B. I. ii. 270; 



W. & A. 284; Bedd. Fl. t. 255. 



