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56. PITHECOLOBIUM, Maitius. 



1. P BiGEMiNUM, Mart. Herb. Fl Bras, p 115. — A tree ; pinnae 

 1 to 2 pair ; leaflets 2 to 4 pair, ovate or oblong-acuminate, 2 to 

 3 inches long, a gland in the middle of the petiole ; flowers capitate, 

 few, puberulous, sessile; legume spirally twisted, the exterior 

 margin entire. Southern Concan. Syn. Mimosa bigemina, Vahl. 

 Symb. ii, p 103 ; Inga bigemina, Willd. sp. PL 



LV. DRUPACE^. 



1. PYGEUM, Linn. 



1. P Zeylaniccm, Gaert. Fruct. i, 218, t. 46, and P acumina- 

 tum, Colebrooke, in Linn. Trans, xii, 360, t. 18. — A tree; leaves 

 alternate oblong acuminate, quite entire, glabrous ; racemes long 

 slender axillary ; flowers yellowish-white ; fruit small, smooth, 

 obtusely and sUghtly bilobed. Hill-fort of Munohur and Parwar 

 Ghaut ; at Mahableshwur, pretty common. 



2. ROSACEA; RUBUS, Linn. 



1. R Lasiocarpus, Smith, W. and A. Prod. 1, 299; Wight Ic. 

 t. 232. — Stems round, long, rooting at the extremities, glabrous, 

 glaucous, armed with curved prickles ; branches and petioles 

 tomentose and prickly ; leaves pinnated ; leaflets 3 to 7, ovate, 

 obovate or lanceolate, terminal one roundish and often 3-lobed, 

 smooth above, white and tomentose beneath, irregularly toothed 

 and serrated ; panicles racemose, chiefly terminal ; carpels tomen- 

 tose. Syn. R albescens, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 519 ; R mysorensis, 

 Heyne. Highest Ghauts to the southward. 



2. R Wallichianus, W. and A. Prod. 1, 298. — Petioles, 

 peduncles, and pedicels armed with recurved prickles, and densely 

 hispid with brown hairs ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets nearly 

 orbicular, toothed, serrated, green on both sides ; panicles large 

 compoiind, somewhat corymbose, axillary and terminal. R hirtus, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 518, along with the preceding. 



3. RuGosus, Smith in Ree's Cycl. — Shrubby, armed with small 

 scattered prickles ; brandies, calyx, and underside of the leaves 

 villous, with tawny tomentum ; leaves simple cordate, 3 to 5-lobed, 

 reticulated and pitted underneath, scabrous above ; racemes axillary 

 and terminal, few-flowered. Mahableshwur, and along the higher 



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