. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 224 XLV. LEGUMINOSJ] [Desviodhim Common in botli peninsulas, often as underwood in decidnoiis forests. Its northern limit in tlie Sal forests of Ondli and Goralvlipnr. PL Also Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines. D, Leaves 1-foliolate. 13. D. latifolium, DC.; Wight Ic. t. 270.—Syn. D. lastocarpum, DO, Vern. Kyopan^ Btirm. A large shruo, often with, a short woody steiHj hranchlets, petioles and underside of leaves softly tomentose. Leaves sc
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 224 XLV. LEGUMINOSJ] [Desviodhim Common in botli peninsulas, often as underwood in decidnoiis forests. Its northern limit in tlie Sal forests of Ondli and Goralvlipnr. PL Also Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines. D, Leaves 1-foliolate. 13. D. latifolium, DC.; Wight Ic. t. 270.—Syn. D. lastocarpum, DO, Vern. Kyopan^ Btirm. A large shruo, often with, a short woody steiHj hranchlets, petioles and underside of leaves softly tomentose. Leaves scabrous above, ovate^ 3-5 in. long, slightly repand, secondary nerves 5-8 pair, stipules from a broad base cuspidate. PL bright purple, in dense, villous, axillary racemes. Pods .^-| in. long, clothed with hooked hairs, joints 3-6. Sal forests of the subhinialayan tract, from Dehra Dun eastward. Eotli penin- sulas. Eng forest of UpiDer PI. Jiily-Sept. Ceylon. Prom tropical Africa to New Guinea. 14. D. gangeticum, DC. •, Wight Ic. t. 271, Subhimalayan tract from the Jumna eastward, both peninsulas, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines. A slender under-slirub, leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, above, more or less pubescent beneath, secondary nerves 8-10 pair, fl. white m long, slender, terminal and axillary racemes. Pod falcate, J-f in. long. 15. B. triquetrum, DC. Vern. Mdkso lanma Burm., a small shrub. Dehra Dun, Oudh, Sikkim, Assam, Khasi hills, both Peninsulas and Ceylon, also Indian Archipelago: has 3- or 4-cornered branches, leaves oblong-lanceolate on a broadly-winged obovate or oblanceolate petiole. Pods sessile, straight, 1-2 in. long, joints square, J in., more or less strigo&e with adpressed hairs. Closely allied are the following species established by De CandoUe, Prodr. ii. 326: D. auriculaUiJii, DC. Silhet and coasts of Tenasserim and Andamans, attaining 10 ft. and more. Pods glabrous, firmly cartilaginous. D. alcttmn, DC. Assam, Kha
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