Title: Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire
Identifier: CUbiodiversity690553 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Brandis, Dietrich, Sir, 1824-1907
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: London : A. Constable & Co. , Ltd
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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r^ 240 XLV. LEeUMINOS^ ., (Pterocarpiis mucronate, silky-pubescent beneathj as well as petiolnle. Fl. yellow, in simple tawny-pubescent axillary racemes. Pod 2^-3 in. diam., velvety-pubescent. Deciduous, evergreen and Eng forests of Upper Burma, Pegu and Tenasserim. East of the Sitang river, frequently associated with Teak (Brandis, Report on the Attaran Forests, 1860, par. 11). Fl. April, May. Species 1-3 are closely allied, and are probably only local forms. ^ 4. P. santalinus, Linn. fil.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 22. The red Sanders tree. Vern. Lai Chandan. A small tree, at- taining 25 ft., with extremely hard, dark-purple heart- wood. Leaflets 3, rarely 4 or 5, broad- elliptic, obtuse, li- 3 in. long, under side pale and clothed with fine adpressed hairs. Fl. few, in short axillary or terminal racemes. Pod IMn. diam., oblique, grad- ually narrowed into a short stalk. Dry hills of the Eastern Deccan, from the Godavery to the Palar river. Fl. July. 5. P. Marsu- pium, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 116 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 21. Vern. Bija Sal, Hind.; Hid, Kol; Bio, Grujer. ; Blbla, Mar.; Honyie, Kan.; Pedegu, Tel.; Vengai, Tam. A large deciduous tree, heart wood brown, with darker streaks. Leaves with soft adpressed hairs while young, dark green, shining. Leaflets 5-7, cori- aceous, elliptic, obtuse, emarginate, sometimes shortly acuminate, glabrous when full grown. Secondary nerves 15-20 pair, with intermediate ones joined by prominent reticulate veins. Fl. yellow or white, pedicels much shorter than calyx, in terminal panicles. Calyx, peduncles, and pedicels clothed with dark brown hairs. Stamens monadelphous, the sheath deeply 2-fid. Pod nearly orbicular, 1^-2 in. across, often 2-seeded. Extreme south-east corner of Kumaon. Oudh forests. Gorakhpur. Central and South India, Mount Aboo the northernmost point on the west side. Fl. July-Oct., sometimes earlier or later. Ceylon. In the hark of this and other species of this genus are sacs, filled with a red astringent oily gum, which is obtained by incisions in the bark and sold as East Indian Kino. Varies in the shape of leaflets. Prain, in Appen- dix to Ind. For. xxvi. 14, distinguishes two varieties: a, with elliptic obtuse slightly notched leaflets in the W. Peninsula and Ceylon; /3, with acuminate 1. in Central and Northern India, sometimes on the west coast of the Peninsula. 20. DERRIS, Lour.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 240. (Degiielia, Taubert in Engler und Prantl, iii. 3, 345.) Mostly climbers, leaves imparipinnate, leaflets opposite, without, rarely with minute stipels. Fl. white or purple, fasciculate on tumid nodes, which often are lengthened so as to form small racemes or corymbs arranged in racemi- form panicles. Calyx truncate, or teeth minute. Standard generally glab- rous, vexillary stamen in some instances free, filament as a rule adnate to the sheath in the middle. Pod indehiscent, narrowly winged on the upper
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Fig. 106.—Pterocarpus santalinus, Linn. f. \.

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