Pithecolobium\ LegWlMlOSCE. I 3 3 



the smallest, distant, horizontal, rachis thickened at base, with 

 an oval gland just below insertion of each pair of lflts. except 

 the lowest, lflts. large, shortly stalked in lowest pinnae usually 

 2 (i pair) rarely 4 or 6 (2 or 3 pair), 2J-3 in., in upper pinnae 

 usually 6 (3 pair) 4-5 in. the terminal pair much the largest, 

 all oval or lanceolate, acute at base, caudate-acuminate, 

 glabrous, thin, dark green ; fl. sessile, 2-4 together in little 

 pedunculate clusters, arranged on long branches of slender 

 pubescent panicles rather shorter than 1.; cal. campanulate, 

 pubescent, segm. short, deltoid ; cor. 3 or 4 times as long as 

 cal., segm. lanceolate, acute; stam. tassel-like, exserted for 

 \ in. beyond cal; pod 3-5 in. by f in. wide, flat, strongly 

 curved into a ring or spiral, bluntly pointed, rough but 

 glabrous, not indented bet. seed, reddish-brown, bright red 

 within, 5-8-seeded. 



Moist region up to 4000 ft. or more ; common. Fl. June ; cream- 

 coloured. 



Also in India. 



The S. name given to his specimen by Hermann is ' Ulhanda.' 



The wood is poor and light, the heart- wood scanty or wanting alto- 

 gether. 



4. P. subcoriaceum, Thw. Enum. 100 (1859). XtXimini- 

 mara, S. 



Thw. Enum. 100. C. P. 2>37- 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 305. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 189 {P. anamallayanum). 



A large tree, with smooth thin grey bark and spreading 

 branches, branchlets covered with very fine brown pubescence; 

 1. numerous, crowded, rachis 2-3 in., stout, pubescent, with 2 

 distant sessile glands below lowest pair of pinnae and one 

 below each of the upper pairs ; pinnae 2-4, usually 3 pair, 

 3-4 in., the uppermost the longest; lflts. 26-40 (13-20 pair), 

 sessile, |— fin., obtuse, oblique, the upper side dilated at base, 

 margin reflexed, glabrous above, pilose beneath, rather thick 

 and stiff; fi. sessile, heads lax on short peduncles, arranged in 

 pyramidal terminal panicles, bracts small, fulvous-pubescent ; 

 cal. tubular, densely pubescent, segm. short triangular; cor. 

 twice as long as cal., pod shortly stalked, curved into a circle, 

 pubcrulous, orange-yellow within, seeds 5-7, jet-black. 



Montane zone, 4000-6000 ft. ; common. Fl. March, August; greenish- 

 white. 



Also in mountains of S. India; if P. anamallayanum, Bedd., be the 

 same species, as Bentham considers. 



Turns black in drying. Wood yellowish, light, soft, smooth. 



