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Pterocarpus. | LEGUMINOS#. 349 
PTEROCARPUS, L. 
Calyx 2a periahig tere with the base acute, often incurved — 
5-toothed, almost 2-lipped. Standard orbicular or broadly ovate, 
the wings oonely 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 nn filed 
site, without stipulets lowers usually yellow, in racemes or 
racemose panicles. Bracts and bractlets small, deciduous, 
Pods ‘tal nes in. — also while young almost glabrous; calyx 
- P. Indicus, 
Pods a about mal in. brond, when young densely velvety ‘Pubeseent 
bescen . P. macrocarpus. 
P. Indicus, a H. f. Ind. Fl. i, 238; Bedd. Sylv. 
Mads t. 23.—Pa-touk.—A tree (50—80-+20—50+5—9), leaf- 
lessin H.S., the very young shoots slightly tawny pubescent ; leaves 
unpaired-pinnate, 4-1 ft. long, while very young a little pubescent, 
= quite glabrous; leaflets more or less ovate to elliptical, alter- 
te, in 3-4 pairs, on aslender 1-2 lin. long glabrous potiolale, shortly 
und abruptly bluntish acuminate or apiculate, 2-3 in. long, entire, 
thin chartaceous, glabrous when full grown ; flowers middling-sized, 
yellow, on a slender 2-3 lin. long puberulous or glabrescent pedicel, 
racemose, forming a simple axillary puberulous raceme or more usu- 
ally pallseted 3 in an axillary and terminal glabrescent panicle ; calyx 
about 3 lin. long, tapering at the base and somewhat oblique, adician 
glabrous or puberulous ; corolla nearly 4 lin. long, the petals cris- 
pate-undulate ; stamens finally separating in 2 sheaths; ovary 
appressed pubescent; pods (also eee young) glabrous, irregularly 
orbicular, unequally sinuate-notched at the base and shortly s pebies§ 
=: an inch across each way, the pes acumination above the 
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aes in the ed forests from Martaban down to Tenas- 
serim and the Andamans ; Ses lag on brag slopes of the Pegu Yomah.— 
Fl. —— Fr. July-Aug.—SS.=Metam. . SiS. 
Remarxs.—Wood light-b: ith li sitll heart-wood, coarsely 
ics Set slack piace ietsohy stnsekek, Meaty. Wacsliolt fee a cll 
cart-wheels. Yields gum-kino. 
P. macrocarpus, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii, 239.—Pa-touk.—A _ 
ee (Go—s04 10-29 5-6), leafless during H.S., the young 
