Derris] XLV. LEGUMINO&E 243 



distinctly pedicelled, bracts shorter thau buds. With this view I am unable to agree. 

 This widely spread species as a rule is a big climber, but from some places it is de- 

 scribed as a tree with spreading branches. In Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 67, 288, 

 Prain describes 1). latifolia, Prain. a tall tree of tin- Kachin bills, closely allied to D. 

 Wallichii, but with larger leaflets and flowers. 17. D. mirgmata, Beuth. — Syn. Dalbergia 

 marginata, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t.87. Nepal, Sikkim, Khasi hills, Pegu. Leaflets 2-3 pair, 

 pale, thinly coriaceous. 3-6 iu. long, secondary nerves 6-8 pair, not prominent, joined by 

 dial inct ultra-marginal veins. Network <>f minute but prominent raised veins between 

 tertiary nerves. PI. .1 in. on long capillary bracteolate pedicels, iu lax drooping 

 panicles, with slender, almost filiform ramifications. Pod straw-coloured, shining, 



thin. 1- rarely 2-s led. 18. D. polystachya, Benth. ; Prain. I.e., p. 463. Sikkim to 3.000 



ft.. Khasi hills. Leaflets 3 pair, elliptic, acuminate, 2— 4 in. long. Fl. J in. long on 1- 

 li| fid. short racemes, in long racemiform nodding panicles arranged in large compound 

 terminal panicles, standard glabrous, pod thin glabrous, veined, 2-seeded. D. secunda, 

 Baker, is nearly allied to this, and perhaps the same. 19. D. andamanica, Prain. I.e., 

 p. 104. Andamans, Nicobars. Branchlets pale brown silky, leaflets coriaceous. 3— 1 pair, 

 5-6 in. long. Fl. crowded on short corymbs, panicles rusty-tonientose, racemiform, 

 several at the ends of branchlets. Pod silky. 20. D. amoena, Benth. — Syn. D. Main- 

 gayana, Baker. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. Glabrous, leaflets coriaceous. 3 pair, 

 2-1 in. Ioiil'. Fl. pink or purple, J in. long, fasciculate on filiform pedicels longer than 

 calyx, in long drooping racemes, forming terminal panicles. 



21. PONGAMIA, Vent. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 239. (Gadelupa, Lam. : » 

 Taubert in Engler unci Prantl, iii. 3, 3 1 1. 



P. glabra, Vent. The only species. Wight Ic. t. 59; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 177. Vera. PGpar, Kanji, Oudh; Kuranj, Max.; Hbnge, Kan.: Kanuga, 

 Tel.; Ponga, Tam. ; Thimcin, Barm. 



A moderate-sized tree, bark soft, wood yellowish white, no heartwood. 

 Leaves imparipinnate, glabrous, bright green, leaflets opposite, without stipels, 

 2-3 jiair, ovate, shorth - acuminate. 2-5 in. long. Fl. on slender pubescent pedi- 

 cels, white and purple in axillary racemes, shorter than leaf. Stamens 10, 

 the lutli filament free at the base, in the middle connate with the rest. Pod 

 indehisceht, turgid, almost wo dy, more or less falcate, 1-seeded, l.V-2 iu. long. 

 Seed oily. 



Common near banks of streams and watercourses in both Peninsulas. In Travancore 

 ascends to 3,000 ft. Oudh Forests. Here and t here in the Sub-himalayan tract ascend- 

 ing to 2,000 ft. An oil I of commerce. Common also in tidal and beach forests of 



India, Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago, extending t" the coasts oi South china, the Fiji 

 islands, and tropical Australia. Prain, As. Soc. Journ. Bengal, vol. 66 (1898), 456 

 states that inland it only occurs planted. This does not agree with my experience. 



22. ORMOSIA, Jackson : PI. Brit. Ind. ii. 252. 



Trees rarely .limbers, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets opposite, mostly coria- 

 ceous. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft. Stamens free. Ovary subsessile, 

 style aliform, incurved or circinate at the end, stigma oblique. Pod fleshy or 

 w Iv. 2-valved. Species 25-30, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



I. O. robusta, Wight Ic. t. 245. — Syn. Arillaria robustd, Eurz, P. PL i. 

 334. Vera. Kytce-tanyin, Burm. 



An evergreen tre ■ attaining 90-100 ft., bark dark, rough, branchlets ribbed, 

 shortly tawny-tomeutose. Leaflets 4-5 pair, elliptic-oblong, acute, 3-7 in. 

 long. PI. dull white, in terminal rusty- or tawny-tomentose panicles. Pod 

 nearly glabrous, bright yellow, somewhat fleshy, s Is I. rarely 2. Seed en- 

 veloped in a red fleshy arillus. 



A—am. Silhet, Chittagong. Burma. Fl. C. s. •_>. o. glauca, Wall. PI. A- l!ar. t. 

 I '-'■">. Nepal, sikkim. ascending to 2,500 feet. PI. white, in peduncled racemes shorter 

 than the leaves. 8. 0. travancorica. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 1">. Western Ghats, Kanara, 



Tinnevelli, and Travan v. A lofty tree, leaflets - 8 in. long, on petiolules \~\ in. long. 



Pod thick, n ly. :! in. long, - in. broad. I. 0. inopinata, Prain in Journ, As S 



Beng., vol. 69, 181 ; and ■">. o. laxa, Prain, I.e. 182, are trees on the Kachin hills. 



1 Eleven years later Lamarck called the tree Pungamia. 



