336 LEGUMINOSE. ~ [ Drepanocarpus. 
Ks.—Wood white, turning yellowish, light, coarse-fibrous, Seeds 
yield a a char earl, “sti yn under the name of karanj 
DREPANOCARPUS, C. Mey. 
Calyx bell-shaped, the teeth shorter or longer. Standard 
broadly ovate or orbicular, without appendages, glabrous or silk- ‘ 
hairy; wings oblong, often falcate ; keel incurved, on the back 
united with the petals or free. Stamens a in a single slit : 
sheath with the panitlag:- one free or not, or forming 2 separate 
sheaths; anthers versatile. Ovary shortly stalked; “with 1-3 ovules ; 
style incurved, filiform ; stigma small, terminal. Pods broadly 
less moniliform contracted between the seeds. Seeds more or less 
compressed.—Trees or shrubs, erect or scandent, with unpaired- 
pinnate leaves, the leaflets — alternate _without stipulets. 
Stipules sometimes spiny-indurat . Flowers in axillary or 
racemes or panicles. Bracts small, daciinoue bractlets 
sometimes persistent. 
* Corolla pubescent outside or glabrous. Stamens united 
into @ ~~ sheath, Pods — 1-seeded 
coriaceous to almost fleshy, indehiscent, 1-3-seeded, entire or more or | 
Leaflets 4 in. long; calyx a line long ‘: : . D. spinosus. 
Leafiets about . ‘ach long; calyx 14 lin. lon : i . D. monospermus. 
* * Corol of Sous ous. Stamens united int 2 sepa arate 
ae Pods 1-3-seede - inouilifictinsoous tricted 
Sitoaes the seeds (if more than one seed). . 
Climber ; ae — glabrous ; oe thick coriaceous . D. Cumingii. . 
Tree; panicle y-villous; fully ess thick and feshy- 
te ella D. reniformis. 
is D; Comingii, Kz. ¢ Dillersia Contagil, Bth. ).—A_ tree- 
like scandent shrub, all parts glabrous or the young shoots minutely 
uberulous; leaves unpaired-pinnate,3-5 in. long, the rachis glabrous, 
or while young puberulous; leaflets alternate, in 3-4 (rarely 1-2) 
rs, from oboval to elliptical and oblong, on a slender 1-2 lin. 
long petiolule, blunt or bluntish apiculate or —— notched, 1-2 
in. long, —— us, entire, glabrous or minutely puberulous be- 
- — very glossy above ; flowers ver shortly pedic celled, form- 
ranched 
fertaial and axillary panicle ete sete alk the leaves; calyx deeply 
lobed, glabrous; pods almost sessile, —— rather 
slightly lacunose, without wings, }-3 in. long, 1-3-seeded and much = 
contracted between the seeds, glabrous, obversely oval and rounded 
with a short point, or, if 1-seeded, obversely oval. 
eran ts a ieivand and furnishes the Kayu lakka of commerce. - 
a Dd. Een, Kz. (Dalbergia reniformis, Roxb. ;. Hf, 
