Pterocarpus

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Read about Pterocarpus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Pterocarpus (Greek, wing fruit; the pods are girded by a broad wing). Leguminosae. Trees or woody climbers without prickles: lvs. alternate, uneven-pinnate; lfts. alternate or irregularly opposite, without stipules: fls. yellow, rarely mixed with violet and white, often showy, in axillary or terminal racemes; calyx turbinate; standard orbicular or broad-ovate, wings obliquely obovate or oblong, keel with its petals resembling or shorter than the wings, free or shortly connate; stamens all connate in a sheath slit above, or both above and below, or the upper one free; ovary sessile or stipitate: pod compressed, indehiscent, orbicular or broad-ovate.—About 45 species, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. The following species may be in cult, in some greenhouses: P. Draco, Linn., growing 30 ft. high, native of Trop. Amer. P. indicus, Willd., "Burmese rosewood," growing about as high, but a native of the E. Indies. P. Marsupium, Roxbg., a pale yellow-fld. tree reaching a, height of 40 ft. Coro- mandel. P. Rohrii, Vahl, from Trop. Amer., which grows to be 20 ft. high.


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