Afzelia.] 
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two trees. J. S. Gamble, in his excellent work on the Indian timbers, page 141, says of A. 
bijuga, A. Gray : Bark thin, grey, peeling off in fine papery scrolls.” This could never be said 
of the Australian tree ; but probably Baron Mueller never saw the bark of the Australian tree. 
Wood of a brown colour, rather coarse in grain, hard and heavy, but easy to work, and would 
be well adapted for house-building work, or might suit the cabinet-maker. The sawdust of the 
Australian tree yields a purplish dye. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 126a. 
It was from a log of this tree that No. 127 in the Woods Catalogue of the Colonial and Indian 
Exhibition was prepared in mistake for Cynometra. 
86. CYNOMETRA, Linn. 
(Dog’s womb, shape of pod.) 
Sepals very shortly united at the base, the free part separating into 4 imbricate 
segments, the upper one rather broader (consisting of 2 sepals ?). Petals 5, 
oblong-lanceolate, nearly equal, the upper one innermost. Stamens 10 or more, 
free ; filaments filiform ; anthers small. Ovary nearly sessile, with 2 ovules ; 
style subulate, with a small terminal stigma. Pod obliquely and broadly semi- 
orbicular, thick, fleshy and turgid, 2-valved. Seed usually solitary, thick ; 
radicle short, straight. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with 1, 2 or 
rarely more pairs of leaflets. Flowers small, usually reddish, in axillary or lateral 
clusters or short racemes. 
The genus is distributed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. The only 
Australian species is a common Asiatic one. — Benth. 
1. C. ramiflora (flowering upon the branches), Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 509, 
var. bijuga ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 296. A tree, either glabrous or the young 
shoots and inflorescence rusty-pubescent. Leaflets in the Australian specimens 2 
pairs or rarely 1 pair only, obliquely obovate-oblong, very obtuse or shortly and 
obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, penniveined, the terminal ones 2 to 3in. long, the 
lower ones smaller. Flowers in very short axillary racemes or clusters. Bracts 
dry, concave, at first imbricate, but very deciduous. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. 
Calyx and petals not 2 lines long. Stamens 10, rather longer. Ovary very 
villous. Fruit as broad as long, very thick and fleshy, \ to fin. long and very 
rugose in the dried specimens, probably larger and smoother when fresh. — W. and 
Arn. Prod. i. 293 ; C. bijuga, Spanoghe, in Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. part i. 78. 
Hab.: Common amongst the mangroves of the tropical beach. 
Widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago, most frequently with 2 pairs of leaves in 
Ceylon and the Archipelago, with 1 pair only on the continent of India, but the two can scarcely 
be distinguished, even as varieties. — Benth. 
In India the wood of this tree is used for house-building, carts, &e., and the chips are said to 
give in water a purple dye. Wood of a light-brown colour, close-grained and tough. — Bailey’s 
Cat. Ql. IVoocls No. 127. 
87. ERYTHROPHLCEUM, Afzel. 
(Referring to its red sap.) 
(Fillasa, Guillem, and Perr.; Laboucheria, F. v. M.) 
Calyx-teeth 5, valvate in the bud. Petals 5, small, very slightly imbricate. 
Stamens 10, inserted with the petals on a perigynous disk, free, longer than the 
petals, all equal and perfect ; anthers ovate, without glands. Ovary stipitate, 
with several ovules ; style short, with a terminal stigma. Pod oblong, linear, 
flat, coriaceous, 2-valved. Seeds ovate, compressed, transverse ; funicle filiform ; 
testa pulpy outside ; albumen thin ; radicle short, straight. — Trees. Leaves 
bipinna, te. Flowers small, almost sessile in long cylindrical spikes, forming a 
terminal panicle. Bracts inconspicuous. 
A small genus, containing, besides the Australian species, which is endemic, two or three from 
tropical Africa. — Benth. 
