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XLIII. LEGUMINOS.E. 
[I) err is. 
clothed with rusty-brown hairs under 2in. long and about Un. wide, somewhat 
pointed at each end, prominently winged along the upper suture, 1 -seeded, but 
only immature pods seen. 
Hab.: Border of scrubs along the Mulgrave River. 
In some respects this Queensland plant approaches D. ferruginca, Benth., of E. India. 
71. PONGAMIA, Vent. 
(From its Indian name.) 
Calyx truncate. Standard orbicular, with indexed auricles at the base ; keel 
slightly incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free at the base, connate with the 
others in a tube in the middle ; anthers uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with 2 
ovules ; style incurved, stigma small, terminal. Pod broadly and obliquely 
oblong or slightly falcate, thick but flat, 1 -seeded, indehiscent, the sutures obtuse, 
without wings. Seed reniform. — Tree. Leaves pinnate, without stipell®. 
Flowers in axillary racemes. Bracts very deciduous ; bracteoles minute or none. 
The genus is limited to a single species widely diffused over tropical Asia. 
1. P. glabra (without hairs), Vent. Jard. Malm,, t. 28 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
273. Karum Oil tree or Poonga Oil tree. Glabrous except a very slight 
pubescence on the inflorescence. Leaflets 5 or 7, ovate, shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, usually broad, about 3in. long, on a rather long petiole, but variable 
in size. Racemes loose, about 3 to 5in. long. Flowers in pairs, the pedicels 2 to 
4 lines long. Standard about ^in. diameter, lower petals shorter. Pod usually 
1J to 2in. long and about lin. broad, sessile or nearly so, often somewhat falcate 
or with a very short incurved point. — Benth. Syn. Dalb. 117. 
Hab.: Cape York and Fitzroy Island, M‘Gillivray ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Edgecombe Bay, 
Dallachy. 
Var. minor. Leaflets small and narrow. — Gulf of Carpentaria, Leichhardt ; Cape Grafton, A. 
Cunningham ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 
The species occurs throughout southern India on the coast and plains to the foot of the hills, 
and is abundant in the Archipelago. — Benth. 
Dr. T. L. Bancroft found all parts of the plant to contain a principle of considerable activity as 
an emetic. 
Stems used for poisoning water for fish. — Roth. 
Wood yellow, close-grained, tough, and prettily marked. Might be used for chair-making, but 
readily attacked by insects. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 120. 
72. SOPHORA, Linn. 
(From its Arabic name.) 
Calyx-teeth very short. Standard broad, erect or reflexed ; wings oblong, 
erect, free ; keel-petals like the wingr; or rather larger, overlapping each other at 
the back, but scarcely united. Stamens 10, free, or 9 of them slightly connected 
in a ring at the base ; anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate, with several 
ovules ; style incurved, with a minute terminal stigma. Pod moniliform, fleshy, 
coriaceous or woody, indehiscent or opening at length in 2 valves, each seed 
enclosed in a separate cell. Seeds globular, oblong or flattened ; cotyledons 
fleshy ; radicle very short and straight or more or less elongated and indexed. — 
Trees, shrubs or rarely undershrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate, without stipellae 
or with very small setaceous ones. Stipules small. Mowers white, yellow or 
rarely violet-blue, in racemes either simple and terminal or forming large terminal 
panicles. Bracts small, deciduous ; bracteoles usually none. 
The genus is dispersed over the warmer regions of the New and the Old World, extending also 
into New Zealand and S. Chili, where it assumes the form distinguished by some as a genus 
