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XLV. LEGUMINOS^ 



[Mezoneiiruiii 



corky tubercles. Piimse 2-4 pair. Leaflets thinly coriaceous, shining, 2-5 in. 

 long, nearly opposite, 3-4 pair. Racemes glabrous, simple or branched, often 

 arranged in a terminal panicle. Pods 2-5 in. long. 



Oudh forests. Nepal. Sikkim, ascending to 5,000 ft. Khasi hills, Chittagong. Anda- 

 mans. Burma. Plains of Bengal. Behar. Moist evergreen forests of the Konkan and 

 JNorth Kanara. Fl. Sept.-Fehr. Yunnan. Malay Archipelago. 



B. Pods several- seeded. Leaflets and calyx glabrous. 



2. M. enneaphyllum, W. et A. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 66 

 (1898), 472. ^ ' 



Fm. 111.— Mezoneurum enneaphyllum, W. et A. Fr. |. 



A large climbing shrub, prickles sharp curved. Pinuse 6-11 pair. Leaflets 

 opposite, 9-11 pair, membranous oblong, h in. long. 'Pods red while vouno- 

 4_8 by l|-2 in. ^ ^ j to, 



Cachar, Chittagong, Andamans, Pegu. Fl. E. S.— Java. This probably is M. gJahrnm, 

 Kurz F. Fl. i. 409. 3. M. furfuraceum, Prain I.e. 471, Pegu. Attaran forests (Tenasserim),' 

 is supposed to differ by less numerous alternate leaflets. 4. M. andamanicum, Prain I.e. 

 234. Andamans, common. Pimise 2-5 pair. Leaflets alternate, |-1| in. long, some- 

 times ohovate and narrowed into a short petiole, 4-5 pair. Panicle large terminal 

 composed of long unbranched racemes, the lower in the leaf axils. Calyx leathery! 

 Petals yellow with red blotches and veins. Pod 5 by 1-1| in. 



C. Pods several-seeded. Leaflets and calyx pubescent. 



5, M. hymenocarpum, W. et A. ; Prain I.e. 233 {M. puhescens, Baker in Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 259). Upper Burma as far south as Prome. Andamans, very common. Ceylon.' 

 Leaflets alternate or nearly opposite, 5-7 pair, ohovate, |-1 in. long. Calyx leatherv* 

 pubescent. Pods thin, 4 by 1 in. " ' 



4. PTEROLOBIUM, E. Brown ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 259. 



Large woody prickly climbers. Calyx deeply cleft, lobes imbricated, the 

 lowest longer and more hooded than the others. Stamens 10, free anthers 

 uniform. Pod indehiscent with a terminal wing and one seed at the base. 

 Species 7, of which 3 in the Indo-Malayan region, 2 in China and one each in 

 Africa and Australia. 



1. P. indicum, A. Bich.— Syn. P. lacerans, Wall.; Wight Ic. t. 196. 



Vern. Kormda, Tel. ; Karindu^ Tam. 



Branchlets, common petioles of leaves and pinnse 

 finely pubescent, prickles numerous, sharp, curved. 

 Pinnae 4-8 pair. Leaflets thinl3Mnembranous, sensitive, 

 6-8 pair, J-.V in. long. PL white or yellow, ^ in. acrosH, 

 Pterolobium indicum, ^^ lax axillary racemes, collected near the ends of 

 A. Eich. Fr. h bi'anches, pedicels slender, longer than (but less than 



twice as long as) calyx. Pod 1^7 in. long. 



Western Peninsula, extending north to the Godavery river. Eeported from Dehra 

 Dun (Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 66 [1898], 473), but not given in Kanjilal's Forest 

 Flora. Fl. E. S. The following, which are closely allied to 1, are regarded by Prain 

 as separate species : 2. P. macropterum, Kurz Y. Fl. i. 410. Burma, Andamans. A 



Fig. 112. 



