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XLV. LEGUMINOS^E 



\Mezoneurum 



corky tubercles. Pinnse 2-4 pair. Leaflets thinly coriaceous, shining, 2-5 in. 

 long, nearly opposite, 3-4 pair. Racemes glabrous, simple or branched, often 

 arranged in a terminal panicle. Pods 2-5 in. long. 



Oudh forests. Nepal. Sikkini, ascending to 5,000 ft. Khasi hills, Chittagong. Anda- 

 mans. Burma. Plains of Bengal. Behar. Moist evergreen forests of the Konkan and 

 North Kanara. PI. Sept.-Febr. Yunnan. Malay Archipelago. 



B. Pods several- seeded. Leaflets and calyx glabrous. 



2. M. enneaphyllum, W. et A. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 66 

 (1898), 472. 



Fig. 111. — Mezoneurnm enneaphyllum 



A large climbing shrub, prickles sharp curved. Pinnse 6-11 pair. Leaflets 

 opposite, 9-11 pair, membranous oblong, A- in. long. Pods red while young, 

 4-8 by 14-2 in. 



Cachar, Chittagong, Andamans, Pegu. PI. P. S. — Java. This probably is M. glabnim, 

 Kurz F. Fl. i. 409. 3. M. furfuraceum, Prain I.e. 471, Pegu. Attaran forests (Tenasserim), 

 is supposed to differ by less numerous alternate leaflets. 4. M. andamanicum, Prain I.e. 

 234. Andamans, common. Pinnae 2-5 pair. Leaflets alternate, ^-1J in. long, some- 

 times obovate and narrowed into a short petiole, 4-5 pair. Panicle large terminal, 

 composed of long unbranched racemes, the lower in the leaf axils. Calyx leathery. 

 Petals yellow with red blotches and veins. Pod 5 by 1-1J in. 



C. Pods several-seeded. Leaflets and calyx pubescent. 



5, M. nymenocarpum, W. et A. ; Prain I.e. 233 (M. ijubescens, Baker in Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 259). Upper Burma as far south as Prome. Andamans, very common. Ceylon. 

 Leaflets alternate or nearly opposite, 5-7 pair, obovate, J-l in. long. Calyx leathery, 

 pubescent. Pods thin, 4 by 1 in. 



4. PTEROLOBIUM, R. Brown ; PL Brit. Ind. ii. 259. 



Large woody prickly climbers. Calyx deeply cleft, lobes imbricated, the 

 lowest longer and more hooded than the others. Stamens 10, free, anthers 

 uniform. Pod indehiscent with a terminal wing and one seed at the base. 

 Species 7, of which 3 in the Indo-Malayan region, 2 in China and one each in 

 Africa and Australia. 



1. P. 



indicum, A. Rich. — Syn. P. Jacerans, Wall. ; Wight Ic. t. 196. 

 Vern. Korinda, Tel. ; Karindu, Tarn. 



Branchlets, common petioles of leaves and pinnaj 

 finety pubescent, prickles numerous, sharp, curved. 

 Pinnee 4-8 pair. Leaflets thinly membranous, sensitive, 

 6-8 pair, J— .V in. long. PI. white or yellow, \ in. across, 

 in lax axillary racemes, collected near the ends of 

 branches, pedicels slender, longer than (but less than 

 twice as long as) calyx. Pod li in. long. 



Western Peninsula, extending north to the Godavery river. Reported from Dehra 

 Dun (Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 66 [1898], 473), but not given in Kanjilal's Forest 

 Flora. Fl. B. S. The following, which are closely allied to 1, are regarded by Prain 

 as separate species : 2. P. macropterum, Kurz F. Fl. i. 410. Burma, Andamans. A 



Fig. 112. 



Pterolobium indicum, 



A. Pich. Fr. i. 



