JPeltophorum.] LegumillOSCB. IOI 



I in. wide, smooth, torulose, 2-4-seeded,' seeds ovoid, ' size of 

 a large pea.' 



Dry country ; very rare. Kurunegala ; Doluwe Kande. 

 Fl. September; yellow. 

 Also in India and Malaya. 



C. coriaria, Thunb., the ' Divi-divi ' tree, a native of Central America, 

 has been long since introduced, and planted trees are now not unfre- 

 quently met with in Rest-house compounds and similar places in the dry 

 districts and called Vanni, T. 



49. FELTOPHORUM, Vogel. 



A large tree, 1. abruptly bipinnate, fl. large, in terminal 

 and axillary panicles; cal. cut more than half way down, sogm. 

 nearly equal; pet. large, with a broad claw; stam. 10, declinate, 

 anth. uniform ; stigma large, peltate ; pod very flat, thin, 

 indehiscent, with a broad flat wing along both sutures, 1-3- 

 seeded. — Sp. 6; 2 in FL B. Ind. 



F. ferrug-ineum, Benth. Fl. Austral, ii. 279 (1864). lya-vakai, 

 T. [Plate XXXI I.] 



C<zsalfti?iia Gleniei, Thw. Enum. 414. C. P. 3815. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 257. 



A very large tree, much branched above, with rather smooth 

 grey bark, young parts covered with orange-brown velvety 

 tomentum ; 1. large, main rachis 6-12 in., secondary ones 

 3-4 in., all swollen at base, narrowly channelled above, rusty- 

 pubescent, stip. minute, early caducous, pinnse 6-10 pair, 

 spreading horizontally, lflts. 20-24 (10-12 pair), sessile, \- f in., 

 oblong, emarginate, unequal-sided, the upper half the larger, 

 glabrous above, rusty-pubescent on midrib beneath, firm ; fl. 

 large, \\ in., on pubescent viscous ped. shorter than cal., in 

 large erect panicles with rusty viscous pubescence; cal.-segm. 

 obtuse or subacute, more or less covered with ferrugineous hair, 

 strongly reflexed, pet. with similar hair on the claw and on 

 back, much crisped, somewhat reflexed, filaments with tufts of 

 silky hair at base; pod 2— 2f in. by I in. wide, tapering to very 

 short stalk and to obtuse or subacute apex, glabrous, striated 

 with longitudinal veins, reddish-brown, wings broad sharp, 

 rigid ; seed oblong, flattened, g in., smooth, yellowish-grey. 



Dry region; rather rare. Trincomalie (Glenie); Batticaloa (Capt. A. 

 M. Walker). Fl. May-September; bright dark yellow, sweet-scented. 



Also found in the Andaman Is., Malacca, Singapore, Malay Islands, 

 and N. Australia, but not in Peninsular India. 



Has been much planted for ornament, and is a magnificent sight when 

 in full blossom. 



