220 _ DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Dalbergia. 
beautifully veined, Filaments eight in one body. Anthers 
oblong. Germ sessile, oval, protruded under the style, one- 
celled, and containing a single ovulum, attached to the apex: 
of the cell. Style the length of the stamina, ascending. Stigma, 
glandular. Capsule superior, from turbinate to oval, entire, 
one-celled, evalvular, ending in a yery large substantial 
wing in the erect shape of a chopping-knife. Seeds solitary, 
oval, or somewhat obovate, attached to the top of the cell, and 
round the insertion partially arilled. Integument single, thin, 
and firmly attached to the embryo. Perisperm none. Embryo 
conform to the seed, inverse. Coty/edons of a softish, yellow, 
waxy consistence, and yellow colour. Plumula of two ob- 
tuse lobes. Radicle minute, superior. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.— 
“DALBERGLA. Schreb. gen. N. 1158. 
Legume pedicelled, membranaceous, not opening sponta- 
neously, but crumbling to pieces by age. Seeds one or more. 
_ Note, The stamina disagree so much in the different spe- 
cies of this very natural family as to render their forming any. 
part of the essential generic character inconvenient. The 
fruit alone appears to be sufticient, to which may be added 
the sternsiely pena leaves. 
a D. Oojeinensis. dea. : 
Leaves ternate ; leaflets sub-rotund, Racemes terminal, and 
axillary. Flowers three-fold ; stamens one and nine, ia 
dineara,.;;.. 
From seeds received in 1795 into the Botanic garden : at 
Calcutta from Dr, William Hunter, the surgeon to the Resi- 
dent at Oojein, two young trees have been reared. In.March — 
and April they blossom, when nearly. destitute of lane 
The seed ripens in September and October, 
Trunk tolerably straight, crowned with numerous — 
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