Cynometra.l LEGUMINOSAE. 413 



W. Ghats, in the evergreen forests of S. Canara (Bed dome), 

 Malabar, Travancore and Tinnevelly up to 3,000 ft. 

 A very large handsome evergreen tree reaching 100 ft. in 

 height, with very small white flowers. Bark dark brown and 

 green, rough ; wood dark red or reddish-brown with a sticky 

 resin, used for planking and furniture. The resin, like 

 copaiba balsam, is of value. Yern. Tarn. Madayan sarupraiii; 



Mai. Shurali. 







75. Cynometra, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the leaflets usually few ; stipules 

 caducous ; stipels 0. Flowers small, in short corymbs or racemes 

 fascicled in the axils of the leaves or on old wood ; bracts ovate, 

 dry. imbricate, at length deciduous, smaller upwards ; bracteoles 

 none or membranous, coloured. Calyx-tube very short, enclosing 

 the disk; lobes 4 or 5, oblong, imbricate, at length reflexed. 

 Petals 5, oblanceolate, almost included. Stamens 10, rarely many ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers small, versatile, dehiscing longitudin- 

 ally. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked. 2-ovuled ; style slender ; 

 stigma capitate. Pod variously shaped, turgid or flattened, 

 indehiscent, the pericarp thick, 1-seeded. Seed thick or com- 

 pressed : cotyledons fleshy ; albumen 0. 



Leaflets 1 pair, lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, 1*5-3 in. long, '5-1*25 in. 

 broad, very unequal sided ; pod flat, semicircular, rugose, orange when 



dry, '75 in. long on the inner or straight side 1. travancorica. 



Leaflets 2 pairs, oblanceolate, falcate, acute, the end ones the longest, 

 3-6 in. long, 1*5-2 in. broad, very unequal-sided ; pod turgid, very 



rugose, '5-1 in. long 2. mimosoides. 



Leaflets 3 pairs : 



Leaflets obliquely obovate-oblong, obtusely acuminate and emar- 

 ginate, 2*5-3*5 in. long, 1-1*25 in. broad, unequal-sided, the lowest 



pair the smallest, often only 1 in. long 3. Beddomei. 



Leaflets obovate, emarginate at the blunt apex, cuneate at base, 

 1-1*5 in. long, *5 in. broad, slightly unequal-sided, all pairs about 

 equal ; pod reniform globose, contracted in the middle, smooth, 



broader than long, *6 in. in diam 4. Bourdillonii. 



1. CYNOMETRA TRAVANCORICA, Bedd. Fl. t. 316; F. B. I. ii. 

 267. 



W. Ghats, in S. Travancore and Tinnevelly, at 2,000 to 

 3,000 ft. (Beddome) ; Tambracheri Ghat, Wynaad (Beddome, 

 Barber). 



