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37. LEGUMINOS^. 



[Ougeinia. 



Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 78. Km-i mutal^ K. ; Teioas, M. ; Kola phulas, 

 Hind. ; Telus, Khandesh Dangs. Tunuj, sandan, timsa, Vern. 



Sub-Himalayan zone from the Sutlej to the Teesta, ascending to 5000 

 ft, ; Central India ; throughout the Bombay presidency in deciduous 

 forests ; fairly common in the forests of the Yellapore sub- division of 

 N. Kanara, where comparatively large trees are to be found, yielding from 

 25 to 40 cub. ft. of timber. A small or moderate sized tree. Bark light- 

 brown, with longitudinal and horizontal cracks, scaling off in regular pieces. 

 Wood mottled, light-brown, hard, elastic. Pores large or medium sized 

 in irregular patches of white tissue. Med. rays fine and prominent. Not 

 attacked by white-ants, close-grained, takes a fine polish and weighs 

 65 to 60 lbs. to the cub. ft. A valuable timber, used for carriage shafts, 

 wheels of carts, furniture, &c. Yields a red astringent gum similar to 

 Dragon's Blood. The timber is sold for about the same price as teak in 

 some parts of Bombay. Fl. Mch.-May, Fr. June, 



9. DESMODIUM, Desr. 



Shrubs or herbs. Leaves simple or trifoliate, stipellate. Flowers 

 small, red, in copious dense racemes. Calyx campanulate or turbinate, 

 teeth longer or shorter than the tube. Corolla exserted, standard 

 broad, keel obtuse. Stamens usually diadelphous. Style incurved, 

 stigma capitate. Pod of several 1 -seeded, compressed^ usually in- 

 dehiscent joints. 



Leaves trifoliate. Urabels axillary, bracts minute, deciduous. 



Branches terete. Joints of pods large ... 1. umhellatum. 

 Branches triquetrous. Joints of pod 



small ... ... ... 2. Z>. Cephalotes, 



Leaves trifoliate. Umbels in continuous 



rows, bracts large, persistent ... ^. B. pulchellum. 



Leaves unifoliate, petiole winged ... 4. D. triquetrum. 



Leaves 1-3-foliate. Flowers in simple or panicled racemes. 

 Joints of pod indehiscent. 



Leaves trifoliate ... ... 5. D. laxijlorum. 



Leaves unifoliate. 



Leaflet glabrescent above ... D. gangeticum. 



Leaflet scabrous above ... ... 7. Z>. latifolium. 



Joints of pod dehiscent ... ... D. jpolycarpum. 



Pod dehiscent, not jointed ... ... 9, D, gyrans, 



1. D. umbellatum, DC. Prod. II. 325; Fl. Br. I. 2. 161; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 87. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 66. Tropical zone, Penang, 

 Malacca, Ceylon, South-east of Surat ; near Belgaum, Dalz. 



2. D. Cephalotes, Wall. Cat, 5721 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 161 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 87. D. Gongestum, Dalz. & Gibs. 66. E. Himalayas, S. India, Burma. 

 Common in the moist forests of North Kanara and the Konkan. 

 Fl. July- Sept. Fr. C. S. Wood yellowish. Gamble. 



3. D. pulehellum, Benth. MSS. ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 162. GhikU, K. 

 Throughout India to Burma and Ceylon, E. Himalaya. Throughout 

 the presidency in moist places along nalas and water-courses, common 

 in North Kanara, as undergrowth in the high timber deciduous forests of 



