Pongamia, | LEGUMINOSZ. 335 
1. S. tomentosa, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 89.—Thin-bo-ma-jee.— 
An evergreen treelet (15—20 + 6—10 + 1—1}), often remaining 
shrubby, all parts softly and shortly tomentose; leaves unpaired. 
pinnate, 3-1 ft. long, the rachis pubescent; leaflets in 5-8 pairs 
with an odd one, very shortly petioluled, elliptical to oval, very 
blunt, 1-13 in. long, thin coriaceous, entire, glabrous above, shortly 
and softly pubescent beneath; flowers middling-sized, yellow, on 
2-3 lin. long tomentose pedicels, forming a velyety-tomentose ter- 
minal raceme ; calyx obliquely truncate, obsoletely toothed, about 
3 lin. wide, tomentose; corolla glabrous, about } in. long or some- 
what longer ; pods moniliform, 2-3 in. long, shortly stalked, acumi- 
nate, velvety tomentose. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the forests of the coasts of the Andamans; also 
Pegu.—s.—SS, = SiS. . 
PONGAMIA, Vent. 
Calyx truncate. Standard orbicular, with inflexed basilar auri- 
= ; keel slightly incurved, blunt. Stamens 10, the vexillar one 
t 
meurved; stigma small, roadly 
_ oblong or. slightly falcate, thick, but flat, 1-seeded, indehiscent, the 
sutures blunt without wings. Seeds kidney-shaped.—Trees, with 
unpaired-pinnate leaves, the leaflets opposite, without stipulets. 
Flowers in axillary racemes. Bracts very deciduous, bractlets minute 
or none. a 
1. P. glabra, Vent.; Hf. Ind. Fl. ii. 240; Bedd. Sylv. Madr, 
t.177; Brand. For. Fl. 153.—Zheng-weng or Thin-win—A leaf. 
shedding tree (40—50+10—15+3—6), all parts glabrous, 
or the very young shoots sparingly appressed silk-hairy ;) leaves — 
2-1 ft. long, unpaired-pinnate, glabrous; leaflets in 2-4 pairs, 
from ovate and broadly elliptical to elliptically oblong, on a 2-3 
lin. long petiolule, shortly and bluntish acuminate, 14-4 in. lon _ 
branous ; flowers middling-sized, pale purple with white 
standard, on minutely puberulous or glabrous 2-3 lin. long pedicels, 
forming a glabrous or almost glabrous rather short raceme in the 
axils of the leaves; calyx wide, about 1} lin. deep, minutely puber- 
“Has.—Common in the tidal and beach forests all along the coasts, from 
Chittagong down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. Feb.-March; Fr. 
_ -RS—I—8s. = All. Aven. : 
