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Dallergia.] l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 235 



Var. 1. puhescens; branches and leaves below clothed with persistent dense thick 

 pubescence. — Concan, Stocks. 



\ar. 2. aca^icpfolia ; leaflets thicker verj' oblique rigidly coriaceous glabrous 



bright green above glaucous beneath. D. acaciaefolia, Bah. in Kew Journ. ii. 37, — 

 Concan. 



Sfbgex. 2. Dalberg^aria, Benth. Sheath of filaments slit both along 

 the top and bottom, so that the stamens are in two "bundles containing five each. 

 Pod straight, thin, 1-3-seeded. 



16. D. lanceolarla, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. ii. 417; erect, leaflets 11-15 

 glabrous obtuse, flowers in copious ample terminal and axillary panicles with 

 corymbose branches, pedicels bracteate as long as the cal}'x, calyx-teeth nearly 

 ft8 long as the tube^ pod glabrous usually 1-seeded rather thickened and veined 

 opposite the seed. Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix., Siippl 45; JDalz. ^ Gibs, 

 ^nb. FL 78. D. frondosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 53 ; FL Ind. in. 226 ; DC. 

 ^odr. ii. 417 ; W. <^- A. Prodr. 266, in part ; Wight Ic. t. 266 ; Wall. Cat. 

 ^5o, A, C, D; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 88. D. zevlanica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 53; 

 ^^. iw^. iii. 228 ; Wall Cat. 5^7. D. arborea, Heyne-, DC. Prodr. ii. 417. 

 U robusta. Wall Cat. 5849 A. D. hircina, Wall. Cat. 5871 A, not B. 



Plains from the Western Himalayas to Ceylon. 

 . -^^ ^rect tree, reaching 60-80 feet in height, with glabrous branches. Leaves 3-6 

 in long; leaflets rigidly subcoriaceous, with slightly raised veins, green al>ove, paler 

 and rather glaucous below, 1-2 in. long, rounded at both ends, emarginate at the 

 apex. Branches of the panicle wide-spreading, silky or subglabrous. Calyx ^ in., 

 n»ore or less silky ; teeth obtuse, the lowest rather longer. Corolla 2-3 times as long 

 as the caljx, the standard \ in. broad, with a large callosity at the base of the limb, 

 flPT-Ki "^^^h shorter than the wings. Pod 1^-4 in. by |-| in., bright brown, 

 6^iole, narrowed to the point and gradually at the base into a long sUilk. 



.^^- p- purpurea, Wall. Cat. 58G9; scaudent, leaflets 11-13 glabrous 



Im t' ^^^'®^^ ^^ copious ample terminal and axillary panicles with corj-mbose 

 thfl nf ^' pedicels ebracteate as long as the calyx, calyx-teetli much shorter 

 «e^ ^^^^' pod glabrous 1-seeded rather thickened and veined opposite the 

 '-^^e*!. Bmth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv., Supjjl 46. 



Maetabax, Wallich, Griffith. Pegu, Kurz. ' , , . 



small i^ i^llied to D. lanceolaria. from which it diifers by its scandent h.-.bit, 

 auer flowers (under X in. long), and shorter calyx-teeth. 



aJ\ ^- volubills, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 48, t. 191 ; FL Lid. iii. 231 ; scan- 

 .:5V ^^fleta 11-13 glabrous obtuse, flowers in copious ample terminal and 

 uiary panicles with or.r-^r^^Ur.a^ ^^^^n.^^^^ ..^rliVpls verv short ebracteate, calyx- 



ax 

 teeth 



Zj ""i^^^te, pod glabrous 1-2-seeded rather thickened and veined opposite thp 

 jIL f-^- ^■"^'•- "• 417 ; Wall. Cat. 5874 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 205 ; Benth. ir, 

 «■ Linn. Soc: iv., Suppl. 46 ; Balz. ^- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 78. 



ANTRAL and Eastern Himalayas, to Pegu and Ckyxon. 

 Wn 7 ""'^^ *^o the two preceding. Branches of the panicle densely clothed ..ith 

 corVr^K ?^-^' P^^escence, the main ones horizontal or even decurved the nltimatc 

 the len fw'^^y congested. Calyx JL hi. long, densely velvety. Corolla 2-3 times 



""gtn of the ciilyx. Pod just like that of D. lanceolaria. 



oW* Pv *ssamica, Benth. PL Jungh. 255; scandent, leaflets L5-21 

 leavT ^'^'Jfous or nearly so, flowers in axillary panicles much shorter than the 

 nearlv 7^ ^^o^ymbose branches, pedicels as long as the calyx, calyx-teeth 

 UnnT -^ ^ *^« t"te, pod glabrous flexible 1-2-seeded. Benth. m Journ. 

 • «oc. IV., Suppl. 45. 



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