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3. B RoBUSTUM. — A tree; leaflets 13 to 21, oblong or elliptic- 

 mucronulate ; young ones silky ; racemes simple elongated ; flowers 

 fascicled ; ovules 6 to 8 ; legume elongate-lanceolate, with a narrow 

 wing, acute at both ends. Syn. Dalbergia robusta, Roxb. ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 244. We are not acquainted with this, but as it was found 

 in Dr. Stock's herbarium, it must grow in some parts of the 

 Presidency. The inflorescence and flowers resemble those of 

 B scandens. 



34. PONGAMIA, Lam. 



1. Glabra, Vent. Malm. t. 28. — Arboreous; leaves unequally 

 pinnated ; leaflets opposite, 2 to 3 pair, ovate, sometimes obovate 

 acuminated, glabrous ; racemes axillary, many-flowered, half the 

 length of the leaves ; flowers rose-coloured ; legume oblong, thick, 

 and somewhat woody, 1 to 2-seeded. Very common in the Concan. 

 A middling sized tree, with light-green foliage like the beech. Oil 

 is extracted from the seeds; DC. Prod. 2, 416; Syn. Galedupa 

 indica. Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii, 594; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 239; 

 Robinia mitis, Linn. sp. 1044 ; Dalbergia arborea, Willd. sp. iii, 901. 

 Native name " Karunj." The oil of the seeds is an excellent 

 remedy in itch or mange. 



35. DERRIS, Lour. 



1 . D Uliginosa, DC. Prod. 2, 41 6. — A twining shrub, growing 

 always near the sea ; leaflets 1 to 2 pair, ovate or oblong, bluntly 

 acuminated ; racemes axillary compound elongated ; flowers rose- 

 coloured, appear in March; legume oval or orbicular, thinly .coria- 

 ceous, one-seeded, seminiferous suture margined. Very common. 

 Syn. Galedupa uliginosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 243 ; Robinia uliginosa, 

 Willd. iii, 1 133. This species seems, with great probability, to be a 

 species of Brachypterum ; in habit and in the reticulated winged 

 pod, it comes much nearer to that genus than to the Pon- 

 gamia glabra. 



2. D Heyneana, Benth. in "PI. Jungh. i, p 252.-^Glabrous or 

 slightly clothed with rufous tomentum, a woody climber ; leaflets 5 

 to 7, ovate or oval-oblong, obtusely acuminate ; coriaceous ; flowers 

 small, pale-pink, in large graceful drooping panicles ; legume thickish, 

 coriaceous, strongly reticulately veined, linear oblong, 2 to 3-seed- 

 ed, winged all round. We should prefer seeing this species placed 

 in the Brachypterum group, to which it seems naturally to belong. 



36. DALBERGIA, Linn. 



1. Latifolia, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 221. — A large tree; leaflets 

 3 to 7, orbicular emarginate; panicles axillary, branched and 



