. 408 LEGUMINOSH. [ Peltophorum. 
petioluled, 4-2 in. long, retuse, chartaceous or membranous, glab- 
rous, pale-coloured beneath; flowers large, showy, from yellow to 
orange-red or variegated in the same colours, on slender 2-3 in. 
long pedicels, forming terminal and axillary pruinous racemes ; 
calyx smooth; petals glabrous, cuneate at base ;_ filaments very 
slender, 1-14 in. long, quite glabrous; pods linear-oblong, acute _ 
at the base, 2-3 in. long, acuminate, the valves rather convex-flat, 
smooth, black ; seeds 3-8, oblong, a little compressed, brown. 
Has.—Generally cultivated in villages all over Burma.—Fl. Fr. oo. 
PELTOPHORUM, Voge. 
Sepals 5, united at base in a cup, much imbricate, nearly equal, 
or the lowermost rather larger. Petals 5, spreading, the 2 lower 
outer ones rather larger. Stamens 10, free; anthers uniform. 
Ovary sessile, with 2 or more ovules; style filiform with a broad 
peltate stigma. Pod oblong-lanceolate, thin and flat, indehiscent, 
both margins wing-like expanded and marked with a longitudinal 
intra-marginal nerve. Seeds 1 or 2, rarely more, without albu- 
men.— Unarmed trees, with bipinnate leaves, the leaflets small and 
numerous. Flowers racemose, in terminal panicles. 
1. P. fe ineum, Bth.—An evergreen tree (50—60+20—30 
+4—6), all softer parts rusty tomentose ; leaves bipinnate, with 
8-10 pairs of pinnz, 4-1 ft. long, while young rusty pubescent ; 
leaflets in 10-20 pairs, opposite, oblong to almost faleate-oblong, 
blunt or almost retuse, often somewhat unequal, almost sessile, 
4-2 in. long, entire, firmly chartaceous, glabrous above, minutely 
puberulous beneath ; flowers rather small, yellow, on 2-3 lin. long 
Strong rusty-velvety pedicels, racemose and forming a rusty tomen- 
tose or velvety panicle at the end of the branchlets; calyx rusty- 
velvety, the sepals about 24-3 lin. long ; petals about 4-5 lin. long, 
obovate, waved, villous at the base ; pods 2-3 in. long, oblong- 
~ lanceolate, st sessile, shortly acuminate, thick coriaceous, 
minutely muricated, especially towards the coriaceous borders, or 
smooth, 1-4-seeded. 
Haxz.—Not unfrequent in the coast forests of the Andamans.—Fl. May—l. 
RemarKs.—Wood blackish, the sap-wood whitish, coarse-fibrous, light. 
SS MEZONEURUM, Desf. 
Sepals 5, at the base shortly united, much imbricate, the lower- 
_ most shorter and concave. “Petals 5, spreading, rather unequal, 
- up innermost one smallest, the 2 outer lower ones largest. 
St mens 10, free ; anthers uniform. Ovary with 2 or more ovules ; 
_ Style subulate, with a very small terminal stigma. Pod quite flat, 
