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N.-W. Innra: Oudh, Gonda; №, Thompson, Inayat ۸۸۸۰ھ‎ Е. Kamaon, at 1,200 ft, 
elev.; Brown, Nepal; Inayat Khán. 
This very local tree was first discovered in 1871 by Mr. Richard Thompson in 
the forests of the northern portion of the Gonda district in Oudh. It has been 
found also by Mr. Brown, of the Indian Forest Service, in Eastern Kumaon, at an 
elevation of 1200 feet. Flowering and fruiting specimens have recently been obtained 
from the Gonda locality, and from the adjacent hilly portion of Nepal, by Inayat 
Khán, the head plant-collector of the Botanical Department of N. India. 
The trunk of the largest specimens seen by Inayat Khan measured 33 feet in 
circumference. The large characteristic prickles were found only on the branches, and 
not on the trunk. The tree is very abundant on the banks of streams within the 
Nepal territory. Тһе genus Piptadenia contains about 40 species, all of which, 
except the above and one in New Guinea, inhabit tropical regions of America and 
Africa. 
PLATE 43.—Piptadenia oudhensis Brandis.. Portions of foliage, flowering and fruiting branches,—of 
natural size. Fig. 1, a single flower; 2, ditto, Zaid open; 3, calyx, laid open; 4, stamen, front view; 
5, ditto, back view; 6, pistil,—al/ enlarged. қ 
J. P. D. 
PLATES 44, 45. 
PAHUDIA Mig., Flor. Ind. Bat, i. 1. 85 (1855). 
Natural order Leguminose. 
Trees; leaves abruptly pinnate; leaflets few, paired, chartaceous; flowers racemose, 
in sessile or peduncled terminal panicles; stipules, bracts and bracteoles caducous; calyz 
elongated, the tube lined by the disk, the limb 4-lobed, lobes coriaceous, decussately 
imbricate ; petal solitary, short-clawed, posterior, the others rudimentary or absent; 
stamens 7, declinate, united in a declinate sheath split above, filaments free above, 
unequal, often with 2 small staminodes at the base of the sheath; ovary stipitate, 
the stipe adnate to calyx-tube; style filiform, stigma small, terminal; pod obliquely 
oblong, 2-valved, valves thickly woody, base rounded, septate between the seeds and 
lined with a thin spongy pulp; seeds more or less compressed transversely, ovate or 
oblong, with a large basal arillate strophiole; testa crustaceous, albumen 0; cotyledons 
thick fleshy, radicle inferior, short, straight. Species 3, Malayan and Indo-Chinese. 
A very distinct genus, based by Miquel (Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 85) on a plant 
first collected by Horsfield in Java, and very well characterised by its author in the 
original definition, Unfortunately Miquel added, as a second species (/. с. 1080), 
Р. Hasskarliana based on Hasskarl’s deseription of Jonesia monopetala in Retzia i. 199. 
Kurz (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 290) pointed out (1876) that Hasskarl’s plant could 
not be a Pahudia ; he wished, however, to transfer it to the American genus Macrolobium, 
which is neither necessary nor possible, because Jonesia monopetala Hassk. is apparently 
specific with Jonesia triandra Roxb. and is probably, as has been pointed out by 
Koorders and Valeton, Bijdr. 2. 27 (1895) the same thing as Afzelia bijuga A. Gray. 
Koorders and Valeton while removing from the genus the plant of Hasskarl, wish, 
however, to refer to it another species, Afzelia coriacea Bak, (Intsia coriacea Maing.) ; 
this latter species is in reality a Sindora |8. coriacea Prain, Journ, Аз, Soe. Beng. lxvi. 
2. 206 (1897) }, | 
