Ougeinia.] XXXI. LEGUMINOSjE. 147 



Sapwood small, heartwood varies from light-greenish brown, ■Vrith yellow tinge, 

 to dark-red brown. It is close-grained, hard, the cub. ft. weighs 57-60 lb.. 

 Strong, tough, and durable ; takes a beautiful polish. Much valued for agricul- 

 tural implements, wheels, naves, furniture, also for building. Combs are carved 

 of it. ' 



An astringent red gum exudes from incisions in the bark. The bark is 

 pounded and largely used to intoxicate fish. Twigs much lopped as cattle- 

 fodder. In places difficult of access, tail and well-grown specimens are occa- 

 sionally met with, but most older trees have been mutilated by lopping and 

 stripping off the bark. 



To the tribe of Hedysarece belongs ^schynomene aspera, Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 

 299. — Syn. Hedysarum lagenarium, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 365. Vem. Sola, Phul- 

 Sola. A large perennial water-plant, with thick stems mainly composed of light 

 white pith, which is made into toys, floats, and Solah hats, invaluable as a pro- 

 tection against the sun. Abundant in tanks and marshes in Bengal. 



Brya Ebenus, DC, Bot. Mag. t. 4670, the green or West Indian Ebony, a 

 small tree with orange-coloured flowers, and dark green, nearly black heartwood, 

 of Jamaica and Cuba, also belongs to this tribe. 



17. DALBEBGIA, Limn. fil. 

 Trees or climbers, with alternate, imparipinnate leaves, without stipels ; 

 leaflets alternate. Flowers small, white, lilac or purple, in dichotomous 

 or irregularly branched panicles ; bracts and bractlets small. Calyx 

 5-dentate, the lowest anterior tooth generally longer. Standard ovate or 

 orbicular ; wings oblong, as long as standard ; keel obtuse, shorter than 

 standard, its petals connate at the top. Stamens either diadelphous, the 

 10th stamen free, or monadelphous, with 9 or 10 stamens, or equally dia- 

 delphous, with 2 bundles af. 5 stamens each, and the vagina slit below as 

 well as above ; anthers small, erect, didymous, the cells back to back, 

 attached to the end of the filament, opening by diverging or divaricato 

 sUts, or with a short slit at the top. Ovary stipitate, with few ovules ; 

 style short, incurved, with a small terminal stigma. Legume like a 

 samara, oblong or linear, flat, thin, indehiscent, with 1 or a few seeds. 

 Seeds reniform, flat. 



trees or erect shrubs ; stamens 9 or 10, monadelphous. 

 Shrubs or small trees ; panicles regulaily dichotomous . . 1. D. rimosa. 

 Large trees ; panicles not dichotomous. _ 



Leaflets obtuse or emarginate ; flowers pedicellate . . % D. latifoha. 



Leaflets acuminate ; flowers sessile Z. D. Sissoo. 



Trees ; stamens 10, equally diadelphous. 

 Leaves with reticulate venation, without prominent lateral 

 nerves ; petals and stamens inserted in the middle of the 



calyx-tibe ;•,*•■"• P"'""''^^- ■ 



Leaves with prominent parallel lateral nerves ; petals and 

 stainens inserted at the base of calyx-tube. 

 Leaflets 11-15; panicles lax; the 3 anterior calyx-teeth 



acute, the 2 posterior obtuse . . -^ 5. D. lancmUna. 



Leaflets 13-19 ; panicles compact ; 4 calyx-teeth obtuse, the 



5th longer and subacute . . • • • ■ 6. .D. Aimna. 

 Climbmg shrubs ; stamens 10, equally diadelphous . . . 1. D. wluMn. 



Several valuable South American tunber-trees belong to this genus. Of the 

 principal varieties of Rosewood exported from Eio Janeiro, -the two finest are sup- 



