4.10 LEGUMINOSE. { Pterolobium. 
ovuled ; style short, —_ the stigma terminal, small. Pod very 
flat, linear, stalked, owly winged along the ventral suture, 2- 
valved, slightly fomaloongedh many-seeded.— Unarmed trees, with bipin- 
nate leaves. Flowers rather large, in robust racemes at the end of 
the branches. _ 
1. A. fraxinifolius, Wight; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 44.—Maya- 
nheng.—A. tree (80—100+ 60—70+6—8), shedding leaves in C.S., 
the very young shoots appressed pubescent; bark about 2 lin. thick, 
greyish, annular, sprinkled with rusty coloured —— eut dry, 
whitish; leaves unpaired-bipinnate, 14-: ong, pinne in 2-4 pairs, 
with an odd one, opposite, the aes St while very ae jiskeoal 
quite glabrescent ; leaflets in 8-6 pairs, with or without an odd one, 
ovate to one very shortly (1 lin.) petioluled, opposite, acu- 
minate, 1}-2} in. long, chartaceous, while young shortly pubescent 
beneath, soon quite glabrous ; flowers middling-sized, green, on 
puberulous about 2 lin. long pedicels, arranged in ‘robust more or less 
tawny or rusty velvety racemes arising solitary or by 2-3 at the end of 
the leafless branchlets ; calyx shortly pubescent, green, the lobes about 
2 lin. long; blunt ; ; petals ei about 3-4 lin. long, green; 
filamen ts glabrous, thick, a, green base yellow and orange ; 
elongate ee very “flat and slightly torulose, black and var- 
nished, tape oes in a slender $ an in. long or longer stalk, acute, 
4-44 in. long, 17.18. seeded, the wing nearly 14 ln. broad ; seeds 
small, somewhat compressed, pale-brown 
Ha aa pang as in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah.—Fl. Jan.- 
Feb. ; Fr. Apr.-May.—s: 1. 
REMARKS Woods white, soft. 
PTEROLOBIUM, R. Br. 
Sepals 5, at the base united in a cup, imbricate, the lowest 
longer and Srctage Petals 5, spreading, the 2 lower ones rather — 
larger. Stamens 10, free ; anthers uniform Ovary sessile, with 
a solitary ovule ; style filiform with a truneate stigma. Pod sama- 
id, inde hiscent, ending in a large wing. Seed basal, without — 
TO: s 
albumen,—Seandent prickly duithe, with abruptly pinnate leaves. 
Flowers in simple or panicled racemes 
i. 1. P. macropterum, large _scan- 
dent shru b, armed with short prickles, the young Sager = 
_ pube: ith 7-8 0 
‘more pairs o: pinne, the rachises priskly: and sidet y puberulous ; 
leaflets i in 7-9 or more pairs, almost sessile, unequal, oblong or 7 a 
tic aes 3-3 1 im. long, rounded or retuse, membranous, % 
al ured ben 3 flowers white, small, sho — i no 
ary (? glabrous) raceme ; ‘pods samar 
