240 L. LEGUMiNOSJi. (J. G. Baker.) IPongamia. 



style incurved, glabrous, stip;ma capitate. Pod woody, flattened, oUong, inde- 

 hiscent, not at aU winged or thickened at the sutures. — Disteib. A single species, 

 with the hahit of Derris from which it differs only in the pod. 



1. P. g'labra, Vmt. Jard. Malm. t. 28 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 416; Wall. Cat. 

 5878; W. %■ A. Prodr. 262; Wight Ic. t. 69; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Pomb. Fl. 77 1 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 177. Qaledupa indica. Lam. ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 239. G. 

 arborea, Poxb. Sort. Peng. 63. Kobinia mitis, lAnn. Sp. 1044. Dalbergia 

 arborea, Willd. j§>. iii. 901. Legum. indet. Wall. Cat. 5979. — Pheede Sort. 

 Mai. vi. t. 3. 



Central, and East Himalayas, to Cetlon and Malacca, especially near the coast. 

 — DiSTEiB. Malay isles, N. Australia, Polynesia, Seychelles. 



A tall erect tree or climber, with glahrous branches and leaves. Leaflets 5-7, op- 

 posite, subcoriaceous, oblong or ovate, pointed, stalked, 2-4 in. long. Flowers in simple 

 pedunded axillary racemes, nearly as long as the leaves ; pedicels 2— 4-nate, J-J in., 

 ■with a pair of minute bracteoles in the middle. Corolla ^ in. ; standard silky on the 

 tack. Pod woody, glabrous, |^-J in. thick, 1 J-2 in. long, with a short decurved point. 



89. DERRXS, Lour. 



Climbers, rarely erect trees. Leaves odd-pinnjite, with exstipellate leaflets. 

 Flowers copious, usually fascicled, showy, in axillary or terminal racemes or pa- 

 nicles. Calyx campanulate, nearly truncate. Corolla much exserted ; standard 

 broad ; keel obtuse, the petals cohering slightly. Stamens usually monadelphous, 

 the upper one free in § Aganope ; anthers versatile. Ovary sessile, few-ovuled ; 

 style inciurved, filiform, stigma capitate. Pod rigid, ^thin, flat, indehiscent, ob- 

 long if one-seeded, strap-shaped if few-seeded, with a distinct wing down the 

 upper or both sutiu-es. — Distkib. Species about 40, belting the world in the 

 tropics, but most abundant in our area. 



Sect. 1. Braclijrpteruin, W.S^A. Porf thin, strap-shaped, narrow (J in. 

 or less broad), winged along the upper suture. Stamens monadelphous. LMcfUsU 

 comparatively small. Climbers or erect trees. 



1. D. scandens, Penth. in Jomm. LAnn. Soe. iv. Suppl. 103; scandent, 

 leaflets 9-18 obtuse or acute equal at the base, flowers in very long racemes with 

 distant nodes and many flowers to a fascicle with unequal pedicels. Dalbergia 

 scandens, Poxb. Cor. PI. ii. t. 192 ; Fl. Lnd. iii. 232 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 417; Wall. 

 Cat. 5857 ; W. Sr A. Prodr. 264 ; Wight Ic. t. 275. D. timoriensis, DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 417. Pongamia coriacea, Ch-ah. in Wall. Cat. 6905. Brachypterum scandens, 

 Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1Q.— Pheede SoH. Mai. vi. t. 22. 



Eastern Himalayas, Bbngai, Western Peninsula, Chittaqong, Siam, Ceylon. 

 — DiSTKiB. Malay isles, China, N. Australia. 



A wide-climbing shrub, with branchlets and leaves below at first obscurely grey- 

 downy. Leaves ^-J ft. long ; leaflets rigidly subcoriaceous, oblong or obovate-oblong, 

 short-stalked, bright green, 1-2 in. long. Flowers in very copious short-peduncled 

 simple axillary racemes, often tmce as long as the leaves, with raised nodes, pro- 

 duced sometimes into short branches, bearing each a cluster of pedicels ' ' in. long, 

 the different flowers from the same node expanding at different times. Calyx ^ in.,' 

 thinly grey-silky; teeth obscure. Corolla pale rose, 3 times the length of the calyx. 

 Ovules 6-8. Pod 1-3 in. by |-4 in., narrowed to both ends, 1-4-seeded, glabrous, 

 turgid, and smooth against the seeds, the wing not more than i in. broad. 



2. D. parvlflora, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv., Sy}y)l. 105 : scandent, 

 leaflets 7-9 subacute equal at the base, flowers in simple racemes shorter than 

 the leaves, pedicels 1-3-nate subequal. Brachypterum elegans, Thwaites, 

 Fnum. 93. 



