L eguminosce. 9 7 



P. Mooniana, Thw. Enum. 414 (1864). Nedun, S. [Plate 

 XXXI.] 



Dalbergia lanceolaria, Moon Cat. 51 (non L. f.). D. Mooniana, Thw. 

 Enum. 93. C. P 439. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 252. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 187. 



A large tree with thick trunk, bark smooth, pale brownish- 

 pink on trunk and flaking off in thin flat pieces, reddish-grey 

 on twigs, buds slightly silky ; 1. large, rachis 6-10 in., cylin- 

 drical, stout, glabrous, much swollen at base, lflts. 6-8, always 

 alternate, shortly stalked 2\- 3 in., oval, rounded at base, 

 shortly acuminate, subacute, glabrous on both sides, shining 

 above, rather paler beneath ; fl. nearly 1 in., ped. stout, nearly 

 as long as cal. and jointed immediately beneath it, with 2 

 minute bractlets, panicles broad, lax; cal. nearly glabrous, 

 thick, tube narrowed below, segm. broadly lanceolate, acute, 

 as long as tube; pod 3-6 in. by \\ in. wide, shortly stalked, 

 pointed, flattened, coriaceous, glabrous, thickened at the 

 sutures, veiny, usually straight, occasionally constricted at 

 places where seed has not developed ; seeds 1-6, oval, over 

 \ in., flattened, smooth, pale orange-red. 



Moist low country to 1000 ft., especially by river banks ; formerly 

 common, but becoming rarer. Moon's locality was Kalutara. Fl. Dec- 

 March ; dark blackish-purple. 



Endemic. 



The timber is much used for household furniture, and is one of our 

 best woods for the purpose, pale orange-brown varied with darker lines, 

 smooth and shining, moderately hard, but easily worked. The pod is 

 indehiscent, but ultimately breaks up into one-seeded joints. 



II. Oesalpinie^e. 



Leaves bipinnate. 

 Neither suture of pod winged . . . .48. C^esalpinia. 



Both sutures winged 49. Peltophorum. 



Dorsal suture only winged 50. Mezoneurum. 



Leaves pinnate. 

 Cal. without a tube. 

 Pet. 5. 



Pod many-seeded 51. CASSIA. 



Pod 1 -seeded 

 Pet. o. 



Starn. 2 , 



Starn. 10 

 Cal. with a conspicuous tube. 

 Pet. o .... 



Pet. 5 . . . . 



Leaves simple, 2-lobed 



52. Cynometra. 



53. DlALIUM. 



54. Crudia. 



55. Saraca. 



56. humboldtia. 



57. Bauhinia. 



PARI II. H 



