Pterocarpus. | LEGUMINOSAE. 549 
PTEROCARPUS, L. 
Calyx turbinate-bell-shaped, with the base acute, often incurved 
_ 5-toothed, almost 2-lipped. Standard orbicular or broadly ovate, 
the wings obliquely obovate or oblong and almost conform with the 
keel-petals or longer, free or slightly connate. Stamens united in 
a single or 2 distinct sheaths with the vexillar one free or not ; 
anthers versatile. Ovary sessile or stalked, with 2 to 6 ovules; 
style filiform with a minute terminal stigma. Pod compressed- 
site, without stipulets. Flowers usually yellow, in racemes or 
racemose panicles. Bracts and bractlets small, deciduous. 
Pods about an in. broad, also while young almost glabrous; calyx 
more glabrous : ie ‘ ‘ . ; . P. Indicus, 
Pods about 1}-2 in. broad, when young densely velvety-pubescent ; 
calyx rusty pubescent . : é : . . . P. macrocarpus. 
about 8 lin. long, tapering at the base and somewhat oblique, almost 
glabrous or puberulous ; corolla nearly 4 lin. long, the petals cris- 
appress 
orbicular, unequally sinuate-notched at the base and shortly stalked, 
about an inch across each way, the stylous acumination above the 
basal sinus. 
‘Has.—Frequent in the upper mixed forests from Martaban down to Tenas- 
serim and the Andamans ; very rare along the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah.— 
Fl. May-June; Fr. July-Aug.—SS.=Metam. Lat. p. SiS. ee 
Remarxs.—Wood light-brown with lighter-coloured heart-wood, coarsely 
fibrous, but close-grained, narrowly streaked, heavy. Excellent for the solid 
Burmese cart-wheels. Yields gum-kino. 
2. P, macrocarpus, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ui, 239.—Pa-touk.—A 
tree (30—50 + 10—25+4+5—6), leafless during H.S., the young — 
