232 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). | Dalbergia. 
Leaves compound. 
Flowers in copious terminal as well as axillary panicles. 
An erect bush, with strong spines . . . . . . . + 5, D. melanozylon. 
Unarmed climbers. 
Branches glabrous; leaflets 9-11. 
Leaflets obovate-oblong, blunt, often retuse 6 
Leaflets ovate, narrowed from the middle to an acute 
Wh Pe er iS. ae eee 
Branches pubescent ; leaflets 11-21. 8. D. pubescens. 
Flowers in congested axillary panicles. 
. D. saxatilis. 
Leaflets 15-19, glabrous Se ae ee a 
Leaflets 11-13, velvety beneath. . . . . . . . - 10. D. natidula. 
Leaflets 5-7. 
Leaflets glabrous beneath Ce Or ee a ee 
Leaflets velvety beneath . . . . . . . . « - 12. D. macrosperma. 
1. D. hostilis, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 338. A wide- 
climbing or occasionally erect bush with a complanate woody trunk 
half a foot broad by an inch thick with strong spines in stellate clusters. 
Branches woody, glabrous, thickly armed with spines 4—1in. long. 
Petiole under an inch long; leaves 3-4 in. long with 15-19 early 
deciduous glabrous obovate-oblong leaflets 9-15 lines long, opaque on 
both sides, glaucous below, on petiolules a line long. Flowers in irre- 
gular elongated terminal thyrsoid panicles with dense cymose branches 
vlabrous below. Branchlets finely grey-velvety. Pedicels almost ob- 
solete. Calyx campanulate, 3line deep, with deltoid teeth. Corolla 
whitish, inconspicuous, twice the calyx. Stamens in a single bundle. 
Pod 1-2-seeded, membranous, 2-3 in. long’, $ in. broad, not reticulated 
against the seeds, narrowed to both ends, below to a very slender pedi- 
cel 3—4 lines long. 
Upper Guinea. Abeokuta, Dr. Irving! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
2. D. multijuga, £. Meyer, Comm. 153. A low bush with woody 
unarmed finely velvety branchlets. Petioles 6—9 lines long ; leaves 
4—5in. long, with 21-33 oblong leaflets, 3-3 in. long by about half as 
broad, shortly pointed, densely velvety below when young, on very 
short petiolules. Flowers in copious sessile axillary panicles or racemes 
shorter than the leaves. Pedicels ferruginous, 1}—2 lines long. Calyx 
obconical, 2 lines deep, thinly velvety, the deltoid teeth reaching @ 
third of the way down. Corolla bright orange, half as long again as 
the calyx, the keel and wings both rather shorter than the standard, 
the claws much shorter than the calyx. Ovary linear, silky, long- 
pera Pod (of Natal plant) 2 in. long, 8—9 lines broad, narrowed to 
voth ends, 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk! Dr. Meller! 
Also Natal. 
3. D. arbutifolia, Baker. Branches woody, not spinose, the young 
ones clothed with fine ferruginous pubescence. Petioles-firm, under an 
inch long, pubescent like the branches; rachis 8-4 in. long; leaflets 
11-13, oblong, 1} in. long, both ends rounded, the edges decurved, 
