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37. LEGUMlNOSiE. 



[Pithecolohium, 



47. PITHECOLOBIUM, Mart. 



Trees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in globose heads or cylindri- 

 cal spikes, pentameroiis, bisexual. Calyx campanulate, with short 

 teeth. Corolla segments valvale. Stamens indefinite, much exsert- 

 ed, ovary sessile or stalked ; style filiform, stigma minute. Pod 

 flat, circinate or falcate, 2-valved ; usually dehiscent and much 

 twisted when perfectly ripe. Seeds in a scanty pulp. 



p. bigeminum, Benth. in Hook. Loud, Jour. 1844. 206 ; Lalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 89 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 303 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 96. Iron Wood. Kan 

 karinje, K. ; Kachlora, Vern. 



Eastern Himalayas, Western Peninsula and Ceylon. Common in the 

 evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kinara. FJ. C. S. Fr. ripe 

 June- July. A large tree. Wood dark coloured, heavy. The circinate 

 flattened pods with the black seeds hangicg from long slender fanicles have 

 a foetid odour when ripe. 



P.dulce, Benth. in Hook. Lend. Jour. 1844, 19b; Fl. Br. L 2. 302; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 188. Manilla Tamarind. VUayti amli, Hind. A culti- 

 vated species introduced from Mexico. Fl. R, S. Fr. C. S. Bark smooth, 

 ienticellate, with horizontal raised ridges, often crowned with a prickly 

 wood. Largely grown for fuel in Southern India. Commonly planted in 

 the Belgaum fort. Seeds edible. 



P. Saman, L., Uango or Rain Tree. Introduced into North Kdnara. 

 Fl. C. S. Fr. R. S. Planted along roadsides in the Belgaum District and 

 near Belgaum itself. There was a thriving plantation of this tree near 

 Kadra in the K^nara District. 



Order 38. ROSACEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves stipulate, alternate, simple or 

 compound. Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx superior or inferior 

 gamosepalous. Petals 5, rarely 0, inserted under the margin of the 

 disk, imbricate. Disk lining the calyx-tube or forming a ring at 

 its base. Stamens perigynous, indefinite, rarely 1-5 or 10 inserted 

 with the petals, or on the disk. Carpels 1 or more, free or connate 

 or adnate to the calyx-tube ; styles free or connate ; ovules 1 or 

 more in each carpel. Fruit variable, of achenes, berries or drupes. 



Leaves simple. Carpel 1 ... ... ... 1, Pygeum. 



Leaves compound. Carpels many ... ... 3. Rubus. 



1. PYGEUM, G^rtn. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate persistent; basal 

 glands 2 or 0. Flowers small, bracteolate, racemose. Calyx-tube 

 obconic, urceolate, deciduous; limb 5-1 5-toothed, often unequally. 

 Petals minute, 5-6 or 0, villous or tomentose, rarely glabrous. 

 Stamens 10-50, at mouth of calyx-tube. Carpel 1, basal in the 

 calyx-tube ; style terminal, slender, exserted from the bud, stigma 



