-90 LeglimillOSCe. \Pongamia. 



43. FTEROCARFUS, L. 



Tree, 1. pinnate with alternate lflts., without stip., fl. 

 moderate-sized in terminal panicles ; cal. urceolate, curved, 

 with very short equal segm. ; pet. with long claws, margins 

 crisped, keel-pet. very slightly coherent ; stam. 10, monad el- 

 phous, fil. unequal ; ov. with 2 ovules, stigma terminal, pod 

 indehiscent, stalked, flat, broadly winged, 1 -seeded. — Sp. 15; 

 4 in FL B. Ind. 



P. Marsupium, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 9 (1798). Gammalu, S. 

 Venkai, T. 



P. bilobus, Roxb., Moon Cat. 52. Thw. Enum. 92. C. P. 1495. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 239. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 21. Bentl. and Trim. Med. 

 PI. t. Si (from a Ceylon specimen). 



A tree with a stout crooked stem and wide-spreading 

 branches, bark thick, yellowish-grey, young parts glabrous ; 1. 

 large, rachis 3-4 in., cylindrical, thickened at base, glabrous, 

 lflts. 4-6, alternate, on \-\ in. stalks, 2J-3! in., acute at base, 

 more or less bilobed at apex, glabrous on both sides, shining 

 above, thick, lat. veins very numerous, parallel and prominent; 

 fl. ■§ in., articulated on short ped., panicles 3-6 in., rather lax, 

 bracts beneath cal. small, deciduous ; cal. finely velvety-pilose, 

 segm. broadly triangular; pod indehiscent, nearly circular, 

 about 1 in. diam., very much curved upwards, the small beaked 

 apex being almost in contact with the base, surrounded by a 

 very broad, rigid undulate veined wing, glabrous ; seed small, 

 kidney-shaped. 



Low country, chiefly in the dry and intermediate regions up to 3000ft., 

 rather common ; in the moist region on open grass land, rarer. Common 

 about Navalapitiya. Fl. July-Sept.; bright yellow. 



Also in Southern India. 



Good specimens are in Brit. Mus. collected by Kcenig in 1781. 



A dark red gum-resin (Kino) exudes from the bark, and is used as a 

 medicine and for outward application. Affords a fine timber, very hard, 

 heavy, dark reddish-brown, durable, containing a red resin. 



44. PONGAMIA,* Vent. 



Tree, 1. imparipinnate, fl. in axillary racemes ; cal. campa- 

 nulate, almost truncate at mouth; pet. much exserted, standard 

 very broad, keel-pet. coherent near tip ; stam. 10, monadel- 

 phous, but the uppermost one free for half way down ; stigma 



* From Pongam, the name given in Rheede, Hort. Malab. for the tree. 



