Derris.] Leguminosee. 91 



capitate ; pod woody, indehiscent, much compressed, not 

 winged, 1 -seeded. — Monotypic. 



P. glabra, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 28 (1803). Mag-ul-karanda, S. 

 Funku, T. 



Dalbergia arborea^ Willd., Moon Cat. 51. Thw. Enum. 92. C. P. 1489. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 240. Wight, Ic. t. 59. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 177. 



A large tree, bark soft, grey, not cracked or furrowed, buds 

 slightly puberulous ; 1. large, rachis about 5 in., glabrous, stip. 

 small, oblong, obtuse, soon falling, lflts. 5-9 (2-4 pairs and an 

 end one), 3-5 in., on thick stalks, oval or lanceolate, acute at 

 base, acuminate, glabrous and shining on both sides, thin, 

 bright green ; fl. f in., ped. rather long, slender, swollen at 

 base, articulated, often in pairs, racemes often 2 together, 

 elongated, about equalling 1., cal. minutely puberulous, pod 

 about 2 in. by 1^ in. wide, scarcely stalked, pointed, oval-oblong, 

 glabrous. 



Low country, banks of streams and rivers, especially near the coast ; 

 common. Fl. April ; greenish-pink or white, with cal. purplish-brown. 



Throughout Tropical Asia, and in Seychelles. 



Wood moderately hard, yellowish-white, not durable. The seeds 

 afford an oil which is used in skin diseases. 



45. 35ERRIS, Lour. 



Climbing shrubs, 1. imparipinnate, lflts. without stipels, fl. 



very numerous, in axillary or terminal panicles or racemes ; 



cal. shallowly campanulate, segm. very short ; pet. much 



exserted, keel-pet. slightly connate ; stam. monadelphous or 



diadelphous, stigma capitate ; pod indehiscent, fiat, with a 



narrow wing along dorsal suture, 1-4-seeded. — Sp. 40; 23 in 



Fl. B. Ind. 



Stam. monadelphous or imperfectly diadelphous. 

 Standard without calli at base ; lflts. 3-9. 

 Lflts. \\-2 in. 

 Fls. in clusters, in long elongated panicles 

 Fls. 2 or 3 together, in short panicles . 

 Lflts. 2-3 in. 



Fl. in simple racemes .... 

 Fl. in much-branched panicles 

 Standard with 2 callosities at base; lflts. 9-13 

 Stain, distinctly diadelphous .... 



f. D. Bcandens, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv., Suppl. 103 (i860). 

 Kala-wel, S. Tekil, 7. 



Thw. Enum. 413 and {IlracJiyplerum scandens, W. and A.) 93. C. P. 

 1492. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 240. Wight, Ic. t. 275 (/Jrachyfilcrum). 



I. 



D. 



SCANDENS. 



2. 



D. 



PARVIFLORA. 



3- 



D. 



ULIGINOSA. 



4- 



D. 



PANICULATA, 



5- 



1). 



OBLONG A. 



6. 



D. 



SIN (J ATA. 



