Derns] XLV. LECIUMIjSTOSJ] 243 



distinctly ]>Hlie(»lk'(.l, bracts '>liorter tliau buds. With this view I am unable to agref. 

 This widely spivad species as a rule is a big climber, but from some places it is de- 

 bcribed as a tree with s])reailing branches. In Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 67, 288, 

 Prain describes J). lat [folia, Prain, a tail trea of the Kachin hills, closely allied to D. 

 WaRkh il, but with larger leaflets and flowers. 17. D. marginata, Beuth. — Syu. Dalberffia 

 mar(jlnata, Eoxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 87. Nepal, Sikkini, Ivhabi hills, Pegu. Ijeaflets 2-3 pair, 

 pale, thinly coriaceous, 3-(> in. long, secondary nerves 6-8 pair, not prominent, joined by 

 distinct intra-marginal veins. Network of minute but prominent raised veins between 

 tertiary nerves. F\. I in. on long (*apillary bract eolate |>edieels, in lax drooping 

 panicles, with slender, almost filiform ramiiications. Pod straw-coloured, shining, 

 thin, 1- rarely 2-seeded. 18. B. polystachya, Benth. ; Prain, I.e., p. 463. Sikkim to 3,000 

 ft., Khasi hills. Leaflets 3 pair, elliptic, acuminate, 2-4 in. long. Fl. | in. long on 1- 

 10 fld. short racemes, in long racemiform nodding panicles arranged in large compound 

 terminal panicles, standard glabrous, i3od thin glabrous, veined, 2-seeded. D. secunrla^ 

 Baker, is nearly allied to this, and perhaps the same. 19. D. andamanica, Prain, I.e., 

 p. 104. Andamans, Nicobars. Branchlets j-vale brown silky, leaflets coriaceous, 3-4 pairj 

 5-6 in. long. Fl. crowded on short corymbs, panicles rustj^-tomentose, racemiform, 

 several at the ends of branchlets. Pod silky. 20. D. amoena, Benth. — Syn. D. ^laui- 

 (jayayia^ Baker. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. Glabrous, leaflets coriaceous, 3 pair, 

 2-4 in. long. Fl. pink or purple, \ in. long, fasciculate on filiform pedicels longer than 

 calyx, in long drooping racemes, forming terminal panicles. 



21. PONGAMIA, Yent. ; FL Brit. Ind. ii. 239. (Gadelupa, Lam. ; ^ 

 Taiibert in Engler unci Prantl, iii. B, 344.) 



P. glabra, Yent. The only species. AYight Ic. t. 59 ; Bedd. 'Fl. Sylv. t. 

 177. Yarn. Ptipar^ Kaaji, Oudh ; KaranJ^ Mar,; Ilonge^ Kan.; Kcnuiga^ 

 Tel . ; Ponga , Tam . ; 1 li inwin^ Burm . 



A moderate-sized tree, bark soft, wood yellowish white, no heartwood. 

 Leaves imparipinnate, glabrous, bright green, leaflets opposite, without stipels, 

 2-3 pair, ovate, shortly acuminate, 2-5 in. long. FL on slender pubescent pedi- 

 cels, white and purple in axillary racemes, shorter than leaf. Stamens 10, 

 the 10th filament free at the base, in the middle connate with the rest. Pod 

 indehiscent, turgid, almost woolly, more or less falcate, 1 -seeded, l|-2 in. long. 

 Seed oily. 



Common near banks of tstreanib and watercourses in both Peninsulas. In Travancore 

 abcends to 3,000 ft. Oudh forests. Here and there in the Sub-himalayan tract ascend- 

 ing to 2,000 ft. An oil seed of commerce. Common also in tidal and beach forests of 

 India, Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago, extending to the coasts of South China, the Fiji 

 islands, and tropical Australia. Prain, As. Soc. Journ. Bengal, vol. 66 (1898), 456 

 states that inland it only occurs planted. This does not agree with my experience. 



22. ORMOSIA, Jackson; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 252. 



Trees rarely climbers, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets opposite, mostly coria- 

 ceous. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5-cleft. Stamens free. Ovary subsessile, 

 style filiform, incurved or circinate at the end, stigma oblique. Pod fleshy or 

 woody, 2-valved. Species 25-30, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



1. O. robusta, Wight Ic. t. 245.— Syn. Arillarla rohiosta^ Kurz, F. M. i. 

 334. Yern. Kijwe-tanyin^ Burm. 



An evergreen tree attaining 00-100 ft., bark dark, rough, branchlets ribbed, 

 shortly tawny-tomentose. Leaflets 4-5 pair, elliptic-oblong, acute, 3-7 in. 

 long. Fl. dull white, in terminal rusty- or tawny-tomentose panicles. Pod 

 nearly glabrous, bright yellow, somewhat fleshy, seeds 1, rarely 2. Seed en- 

 veloped in a red fleshy arillus. 



Assam, Silhet, Chlttagong. Burma. Fl. C. S. 2. 0. glauca, Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 

 125. Nepal. Sikkim, ascending to 2,500 feet. Fl. white, in peduncled racemes shorter 

 than the leaves. 3. 0. travancorica. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 45, Western Ghats, Xanara, 

 Tinnevelli, and Travancore. A lofty tree, leaflets 2-3 in. long, on petiolules J-J in. long. 

 Pod thick, woody, 8 in. long, 2 in. broad. 4. 0. mopinata, Prain in Journ. As. Soc, 

 Beng,, vol. 69, 181 *, and 5, 0. laxa, Prain, Ic. 182, are trees on the Kachin hills. 



1 Eleven years later Lamarck called the tree Pimgamia. 



