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Genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods
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pterocarpus
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Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae . It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae , and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae . Most species of Pterocarpus yield valuable timber ...
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Red Gum is official in Great Britain, being imported from Australia, though the Kino generally employed here as the official drug is derived from Pterocarpus Marsupium, a member of the order Leguminosae, East Indian, or Malabar Kino, and is administered in doses of 5 to 20 grains powdered, or 1/2 to 1 drachm of the tincture.