oe DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Dalbergia. 
for when its rapid growth in almost every soil, its beauty, and 
uses are taken into the account, few trees ean be compared 
with it. 
4. D. emarginata. R. 
Leaflets from five to seven, alternate, round, obcordate, 
emarginate, Panicle axillary, and terminal. Filaments 
nine, coalesced in one. Legume linear-lanceolate, from two 
to four-seeded. 
A native of the Andaman Islands, from thence introduced 
into the Botanic garden in #760, by Colonel Alex. Kyd. Io 
1809, the largest of the trees was from forty to fifty feet high, 
and thick in proportion, viz. from forty to forty-five inches in 
circumference, four feet above the ground, They blossom in 
September ; and the seed ripens in March, at seereath time the 
trees are destitute of leaves in Bengal. . 
Trunk nearly straight. Bark ‘toldirably smooth and of a 
date gray colour. Branches numerous, spreading and di- 
viding in every direction, so as to form one of our most shady 
trees. Leaves alternate, bifarious, pinnate, from six to eight 
inches long. Leaflets generally five or seven, sub-alternate, 
_ short-petioled, round-obcordate, emarginate, very smooth, and 
highly polished on both sides, but much paler underneath, 
general size about an inch each way for the lower ones, and an 
inch and a half for the most exterior ones. Petioles and peti- 
olets round, slender and smooth, Stipules minute, caducous. 
Panicles axillary, and terminal, shorter than the leaves, r- 
_ mifications alternate, bifarious,smooth. Flowers numerous, 
small, alternate, pedicelled, pure white, fragrant. Caly* 
smooth ; upper two divisions broader, shorter and more unit- 
ed. Filaments nine, united into one body with a fissure 
down the back. Anthers twin. Germ linear-oblong, pedi- 
celled. Style short. Legume lanceolate, with — 
from one to three seeds, 
In habit it much resembles Dalbergia Mieniéc the most con- 
spicuous specific difference is in the leaves ; in this they ave 
