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The Dalbergias yield a reddish resin, which has been sold for 
dragon’s blood. Pterocarpus draco is one of these; East Indian 
kino is the inspissated juice of P. marsupium, a native of Coro- 
mandel ; the Cabbage tree (Andira inermis). The Tonquin Bean is 
the seed of Dipterus odorata, belonging to this section. 
Trine VII. SopHore®.—Corolla papilionaceous; stamens ten, 
rarely eight or nine; free pod, continuous, unarticulate, unopen- 
ing, or two-valved. 
The Balsam of Peru, supposed to be extracted from Myros- 
permum peruiferum, and the Balsam of Tolu, from JZ. toluiferum, 
belong to this section. Virgilia capensis is a handsome tree. 
The Judas-tree (Cercis siliquastrum), and many other trees useful 
in medicine or yielding commercial products, belong to this » 
section. 
Tring VIII. Cxsaprnrex.—Corolla irregular, sub-papilion- 
aceous, or almost regular, sometimes absent; stamens ten, or 
fewer, free, sometimes serrated ; pod dry and two-valved. 
The section includes many medicinal plants, as the Necker-tree 
(Guilandina bonduc), useful in intermittent fevers, the seeds of 
which are used as beads and marbles. The Brazil-wood of com- 
merce (C@salpinia Braziliensis) is a tree of San Domingo, twenty 
feet high. Many others of the genus yield valuable dyes. Hema- 
toxylon campechianum yields the logwood-dye ; Tamarindus Indicus, 
alarge spreading tree of sixty feet, yields the well-known tamarind; 
the true Officinal Senna is the produce of Cassia lanceolata ; and 
C. obovata is the Alexandria Senna; all the Cassias producing similar 
local varieties of the medicine. Cassia Jistula, a tree forty or fifty 
feet high, produces pods upwards of a foot in length, whose muci- 
lage is known as the Purging Cassia. The wood of Aloexy/on 
agallochum is much esteemed for its fragrant odour: this is the 
Aloe-wood of the East. Gum Anime is produced by Hymenea 
courbaril, a lofty tree of South America. The Copal of Mexico is 
Produced by another species of Hymenea. The bark of Bauhina 
racemosa is used to make ropes: it is a climbing tree, known in 
India as the Maloo Creeper, which hangs in elegant festoons from 
the top of the loftiest trees, “which one is surprised,” says Dr. 
. Royle, “‘ from the distance of its roots from the stems, how it could 
Teach.” Amherstia nobilis is a Burmese tree thirty to forty feet 
