Pterocarpus
in botany, a genus of Dalbergieæ, having a thin wing at the edge of the fruit. Large trees, chiefly from the tropics. P. marsupium, P. indicus, and P. macrocarpus furnish East Indian kino, and P. erinaceus, African kino, P. draco and P. santalinus, red sandal wood. P. balberggioides, a good Indian wood, and P. indicus, the excellent Andaman red wood. Cattle and goats feed on the leaves of P. marsupium.