. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Dalbergia] XLV. LEGUMINOS^ 233 stamens each. Ovary stipitate with few ovules, style short incurved, stigma small terminal. Pod flat, indehiscent, with one or few seeds. 80 species, tropical and sub-tropical regions of Old and New World. A. Trees or erect shrabs. Stamens 9 or 10, united in a sheath split above. 1. D. Sissoo, Roxb.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 25 ; Brand. F. Fl. t. 24. The Sissoo tree. Vern. Tali^ Pb.; SissUj Shisham, Hind. A large decidu
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Dalbergia] XLV. LEGUMINOS^ 233 stamens each. Ovary stipitate with few ovules, style short incurved, stigma small terminal. Pod flat, indehiscent, with one or few seeds. 80 species, tropical and sub-tropical regions of Old and New World. A. Trees or erect shrabs. Stamens 9 or 10, united in a sheath split above. 1. D. Sissoo, Roxb.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 25 ; Brand. F. Fl. t. 24. The Sissoo tree. Vern. Tali^ Pb.; SissUj Shisham, Hind. A large deciduous tree, bark grey, heartwood brown with darker veins. Leaflets 3-5, broadly-elliptic or ovate, acuminate, pubescent when youn^, glabrous when full grown, 1-3 in. long. Fl. yellowish white, nearly sessile, in short axillary panicles. Stamens 9, ovary pubescent, style much shorter than ovary. Pod linear-lanceolate, 1-3-seeded. Subhimalayan tract and in tlie outer valleys, from the Indus to Assam, ascending generally to 3,000, and in places to 5,000 ft. Extending far into the plains along river banks. Baluchistan, Suleiman range. Planted and often self-sown throughout India. Fl. March-May. 2. D. latifolia, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 113 ; Wight Ic. t. 1156; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 24. Blackivoodj Roseiuood. Vern. Sitsalj Bengal; Kiri, Kol; Shisham^ Mar.; Biti^ Kan. ; Jitengi^ Tel.; Itti^ Tam. A large deciduous tree, bark grey, heartwood dark purple with black streaks. Leaflets 3-7, broadly elliptic, orbicular or elliptic-obovate, obtuse, sometimes emarginate, ^-3 in. long. Fl. whitish, \ in. long, on pedicels nearly as long as calyx tube, in short axillary much-branched panicles. Stamens 9, ovary gla- brous, style slender, nearly as long as ovary. Pod oblong-lanceolate, 1-4-seeded. Subhimalayan tract, from Oudh to Sikkim. Central and South India, extending north to Bandelkhand and to Todgarh in Merwara. Generally in deciduous forests, often associated with Teak. On the west side of the penins
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