Datlbergia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 223 
3. D. Sissoo. Roxb. 
Leaflets about five, alternate, round, acute. Panicles ax- 
illary. Filaments nine, equally coalesced into one. Legume 
lanceolate, 
Sans, Shingshupa. 
Hind, and Beng. Sissoo. 
A native of Bengal, and of the adjoining provinces to the 
northward. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season; 
the seed ripens about the close of the year. 
Trunk generally more or less crooked, high and of great 
thickness, often from three to four feet in diameter. Branches 
numerous, spreading in every direction ; branchlets bifarious. 
Young shoots downy and always drooping, even the leading 
one, Bark on young trees ash-coloured and pretty smooth, 
when old uncommonly thick, and very deeply cracked in 
every direction, Leaves alternate, bifarious, pinnate, Leaf- 
lets alternate, generally from three to five, sub-orbicular or 
ebcordate, pointed, waved, when young downy, when old 
smooth and shining; from one to twelve inches each way, the 
inferior ones smallest. Petioles round, waved, very downy 
when young, smooth when old. Stipules lanceolate, caducous, 
Panicle axillary, downy, composed of numerous, short, sub- 
secund spikes, Flowers small, of a yellowish white. Bractes 
small, caducous, Calyx campanulate, hairy ; the upper two 
divisions rounded, the under three acute. Corol as in the — 
genus. Filaments nine, equally coalesced for two-thirds 
their length, thin, alternate, shorter with roundish anthers, 
Germ pedicelled. Style very short. Stigma large, glandu- 
lar. Legume linear-lanceolate, membranaceous, three-seed- 
ed. Seeds compressed ; reniform. 
This tree yields the Bengal ship-builders theie croind tim 
bers and knees. It is tolerably light, remarkably strong, but 
unfortunately not so durable as could be wished. It answers 
well for various other economical purposes ; ; the colour, alight — 
grayish brown, with darker coloured veins. Upon the whole — 
I scarcely know any other tree that deserves more attention, 
