238 L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) ^Dalbergia. 



minute obtuse braeteoles ; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla \ in. ; claws as long as tijie 

 calyx; standard narrow. Pod brown, flat, glabrous, under 1 in. long, the upper 

 suture recurved ; stalk as long as the calyx. 



27. D. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 233; erect, branchlets spine-tipped, 

 leaflets 7-9 small obtuse, pod flat. W. Sf A. Prodr. 266 ; Bemth. in Joum. 

 Linn. Sac. iv., Suppl. 49. D. horrida, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5877. 



Shores of the Bastbrn and Western Peninsuxas. CHrrriGONS, Boxburgh. 



A stiff erect shrub, with numerous short round horizontal brauchlets, ending in 

 pungent spines. Leaves crowded, from the nodes of the branchlets, 1-1^ in. long ; 

 leaflets flrm, oboTate-oblong, \-^ in. long. Flowers in congested sessile corymbose 

 panicles, with minutely downy branches ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Cali/x 

 ^ in., minutely downy ; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla whitish, twice the length of the 

 calyx. Pod 1 in. long, brown, glabrous, reniform. 



28. D. reniformis, Soxb. Soi-t. Beng. 53; Fl. Ind. iii. 226; erect, 

 spineless, leaflets 9-11 large acute nearly or quite glabrous, pod turgid. 

 Wight Ic. t. 261. D. flexuosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5875. Bemth. in Joum. 

 Linn. Sac. iv., Swppl. 48. D. stipulata. Wall. Cat. 5868 B, ex parte. 



SiLLET, Boxburgh, Wallich. Pegtj, Kurz. TENASSEiiiM, Griffith. 



A large crooked bushy tree, with fine brown-silky branchlets. Leaves 4-8 in. 

 long; leaflets rigidly coriadeous, glabresceut, 1^-2 in. long, broadly rounded at the 

 base. Flowers in deltoid close axUlary panides, shorter than the leaves, the branch- 

 lets racemose, densely brown-velvety. Calyx ^ in., campanulate, densely silky ; teeth 

 deltoid, shorter than the tube. Corolla twice the length of the calyx, white; 

 standard obovate-emarginate. Pod glabrous, rigid, usually one-seeded, an inch broad 

 by J— J in., narrowed suddenly into a stalk \-^ in. long. 



IMPEEFECTLT KNOWN SPECIES. 



29. D, stenocarpa, Kurz in Joum. Asiat.'Soc. Beng. xUv, 2, 205. 



Shrub, with the young parts clothed with golden or fulvous silky pubescence. 

 Leaves 5-8 in. long; leaflets 9-13, oblong, 1-1| in. long, retuse, with a minute mucro, 

 chartaceous, glaucescent and thinly pilose beneath. Panicles axillary, much shorter 

 than the leaves ; rachises pilose ; pedicels i in. Calyx i in., pilose ; upper tooth 

 very short, obtuse ; lower very long, subulate. Corolla and stamens unknown. Pod 

 linear, 1-2 in. by ^ in., flat, brown, thin, narrowed gradually to a long stalk, indis- 

 tinctly veined, 1-5 seeded. Pod of D. Sissoo and habit of D. lanceolaria. Sikkim at 

 Pankabari, Gamhle. — Ex Kwrz loo. cit. 



87. FTEROCARPUS, Lion. 

 Erect trees. Leaves with alternate coriaceous exstipeUate leaflets. Flowers 

 yellowish, in copious panicled racemes ; bracts and braeteoles minute, caducous ; 

 pedicels distinctly articulated at the apex. Calyx turbinate, curved before ex- 

 pa,nsion, the teeth short. Petals exserted, with long claws ; standard and wings 

 crisped ; keel obtuse, the petals scarcely or not at all coherent. Staminal sheath 

 slit both above and below, or above only ; the upper stamen often nearly or quite 

 free ; anthers versatile. Ovary stalked, 2-ovuled ; style incurved, stigma termi- 

 nal. Bod orbicular, rarely other than 1-seeded, with a broad rigid wing, the point 

 turned down to opposite the base or near it.— Disteib. Species about 15 ; 

 cosmopolitan in the Tropics. ^ 



1. P. indicus, WUld. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 419 ; leaflets 7-11 ovate acute, 

 veining fine, racemes panicled, pedicels as long as the calyx, stamens 2-3- 

 adelphous, stalk of pod exceeding the calyx, heak of pod a space above the outer 

 base. Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. Su^l. 77 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 23. P. 

 dalbergioides, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 53 ; Fl. Ind. iii-. 236 ; DC. Prodi- ii 418 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 5843 ; TT. ^ A. Prodr. 267. P. Wallichii, W. ^ A. Prodr. loc. cit. 



