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30. ПлтвекотА Sissoo Roxb. Hort. Beng. 53 (1814); DC. Prodr. ii, 416 (1825); 
Roxb. Flor. Ind. iii. 223 (1832); Wall. Cat. 5850 (1832); W. & A. Prodr, 
i. 264 (1834) ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 55 (1839); Voigt Hort, Suburb. Caleutt. 
241 (1845); Benth. Pl. Jungh. i. 254 (1851); Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 
40 (1860); Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Flor, Suppl. 24 (1861); Bedd. Flor. Sylvat, 
t. 25 (1869); Stewart Panjab РІ, 65 (1869); Brand. For. Flor. 149 (1874); 
Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 231 (1876); Talbot Bomb. List 74 
(1894); Gamble Darjeel. List 28 (1896); Woodr. Journ. Hat. Hist. Soc. 
Bomb. xi. 426 (1897); Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxx. 2, 40 (1901); 
Kanjilal Flor. Sch. Cire. 128 (1901); Cooke Flor. Pres. Bomb. i, 395 
(1902); Prain Bengal Plants i. 411 (1903). 
D. pendula Теп. Rend. бос. Borb. Nap. i. 409 (1842), 
A tree, 80—80 ft. high, with rough grey bark and usually a crooked stem 
that may be 4 ft. in diam. at 5 ft. from the ground, with numerous spreading branches; 
young shoots pendulous, sub-bifarious, pubescent. Leaves 6 in. long; leaflets usually 
9, but often 3, occasionally 4, suborbicular, cuspidate, very rarely obtuse, occasionally, 
on young shoots after pollarding, ovate-lanceolate; pale-green, puberulous when young, 
smooth and shining when old, though sometimes more persistently puberulous in the 
drier western parts of its habitat; distal leaflets almost always the largest, 1—2*5 im. 
long and broad or in the adventitious narrower form, 1—2*5 іп, long by 5—1 in? broad; 
rachis 2:5—8:5 in, long, somewhat zigzag; petiolules *2 in. long, at first puberulous, 
ultimately glabrous; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Flowers almost sessile, in short axillary 
subcymose puberulous panicles, 2:5 in, long; calyx campanulate, enclosed within 2 large, 
very caducous, membranous bracts, puberulous, 5-toothed, the two upper teeth rounded, 
the lateral pair subacute, shorter than the rather narrow acute lowest, all shorter than 
the tube; corolla yellowish-white, petals all rather long-clawed, standard with suborbicular, 
slightly emarginate limb; stamens 9, in one sheath split along upper side, filaments 
free in their upper fourth, alternately shorter and longer; ovary pubescent, rather 
long-stipitate, style very short, stigma capitate; ovules 4—6. Pod indehiscent, shortly 
stipitate, obtuse, strap-shaped, pale straw-coloured or ultimately brownish, firmly 
coriaceous, glabrous, 1—2 or rarely 3-seeded, distinctly but sparingly veined opposite 
the seeds, 2°5—3 іп. long, “5 in. wide; seed much compressed, reniform, 79 in. 
long, 79 in. wide, ‘07 in. thick, testa brown, hardly shining. 
N.-W. Frontier: Beluchistan; Stocks 7181 Lace 8497! 3615! N.W. HIMALAYA: 
Hazara, Stewart 89! Yunasar, Schlich! Below Komharsen, Gamble 6151! Chamba, Clarke 
23723! Kangra, Clarke 23810! Dehra Dun, King/ КАЈРОТАМА: Ajmir, Moir! Makerji 
Hill, Brandis! PANJAB: Campbellpur, occasional on river cliffs, S/ewart 71! SIKKIM : 
Terai, Gamble! Duars, Prain! Lower Hills, Hooker! Assam: Brahmaputra Valley, оп | 
Мат 86! 
Cultivated examples—PANJAB: Lahore, Brandis! Delhi, 0. Kuntze! Meerut, €— 
Clarke! CurrraGoNg: Sitapahar reserve, Ellis! UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN: Oude, des 
Saharanpur, Royle! Etawah, Hume! Lower Gancetic Prars: Bengal, Wallich! Kurz! 
Prain! Deccan: Poona, Tilak! Cooke! Gwalior, Maries! Saugor, Jerdon! S. Турта: Coorg, 
Hohenacker! Paulghat, Wight! Naidoo! Madras, Heyne! 
that the species is nowhere truly wild save in the 
It: : h ít is probable, | 
„=. = river beds, along the Himalaya from Upper Assam to 
submontane forests, and then only in gravelly 
Axx Roy, Bor. Garp, Сатсотта, Vor. X. 
