154 XXXI. LEGUMINOSiE. [Pongamia. 



Common near banks of streams and watercourses, and elsewhere in moist 

 localities; often associated with Terminalia Arjuna, in South and Central India, 

 Burma, and Bengal. Also at the foot of the Himalaya, and in the outer 

 valleys extending west to the Ravi (not common), and ascending to 2000 ft. 

 Outside India in Ceylon, Malacca, the Indian Archipelago, extending northward 

 to South China, and eastward to the Fiji Islands, Timor, and tropical Australia. 

 The leaves are shed in April, and are renewed soon afterwards. Fl. May, June ; 

 the pods ripen in April of the ensuing year. 



Attains 50-60 ft ; trunk short, not very regular, 5-8 ft. girth ; crown spread- 

 ing, shady. Bark smooth, striated, of a whitish or dusky cinereous colour, 1 

 in. thick. Inner bark yellowish, fibrous, with an unpleasant smell. Wood 

 yellowish, with darker veins, hard, and tough ; sap and heartwood not distinct. 

 Used for building, but not durable, readily eaten by insects. In South India 

 solid cart-wheels are made of it. The pods (bara Tcaranj) and the leaves are 

 used in native medicine, and oil is expressed from the seeds, used for burning, 

 and medicinally (Pharm. Ind. 79). 



20. DEBRIS, Loureiro. 



Climbing shrubs or trees, with alternate imparipinnate leaves ; leaflets 

 opposite, exstipellate. Flowers violet, purplish, or white, in simple or 

 paniculate racemes. Calyx truncate. Standard unappendaged ; wings 

 obliquely oblong, slightly cohering to the keel-petals. Vexillary stamen 

 united to the rest near the middle, rarely free ; anthers versatile. Ovary 

 2 - oo - ovulate ; stigma terminal. Legume indehiscent, oblong or orbicular, 

 flat, membranous, or coriaceous, narrowly winged on the upper or both 

 sutures. Seeds solitary or several, compressed. 



1. D. scandens, Benth. in Linn. Journ. iv. Suppl. 103. Syn. Dal- 

 hergia scandens, Eoxb. Cor. El. t. 192; Fl. Ind. iii. 232; W. & A. 

 Erodr. 264. 



A large climbing shrub, with imparipinnate leaves. Leaflets 3-4 pair, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, glabrous, dark green, subcoriaceous, com- 

 mon petiole pubescent. Flowers on filiform pedicels, light rose-coloured, 

 in long slender racemes. Eods flat, oblong, marginate, 2-3 in. long, 2-4- 



Baraich and Gonda forests in Oudh, Bengal, South India, Ceylon, Burma, 

 Indian Archipelago, North Australia, and South China. Fl. U.S. ; fir. C.S., H.S. 

 Attains 1 ft. in girth: 



D. robusta, Benth. 1. c. 104 Syn. Dalbergia robusta, Roxb. ; "Wight Ic. t. 

 244. D. Krowei, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 229, a tree, with narrow-linear pods 2-3 

 in. long, and J in. wide, of South India, Ceylon, Bengal, is found in Kamaon 

 (Madden), ascending to 5000 ft. (vern. Buro). 



Second Sub-Order, CJESALPINIE^. 



Trees, shrubs, rarely herbs, with pinnate, abruptly bipinnate, bifoliolate, 

 rarely unifoliolate leaves ; leaflets generally not stipellate. Flowers 

 bisexual, generally irregular. Calyx of 5 more or less connate sepals. 

 Eetals 5, or fewer, imbricate in bud, the upper petal inside. Stamens 10, 

 or fewer, rarely numerous, free, or more or less connate. Seeds with or 

 without albumen ; the embryo with a straight radicle. 





