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emarginate, in that pointed ; I may also add that the bark in 
in this is smooth, in that deeply cracked. Colonel Alexan- 
der Kyd, who brought the young tree from the Andaman 
Islands, in a latter dated October 1801, says, “ I remember 
the trees perfectly well, [ brought them from the Andamans, 
We there looked upon it as a kind of Sissoo, and it was by 
far the most valuable kind of wood we had on the Island, as 
it grew to a very large size, and was well suited for ship- 
building. It has very much the appearance of Sissoo when 
cut, but is of a more uniform colour and rather darker; in 
fact, like very dark coloured oak. It grows in common on 
~ the high grounds, with wood oil, and red wood trees, and all 
the other varieties of trees that are at the Andamans, but 
seems by no means a very common tree. Captain Blair built 
a vessel at the Andamans called the Union, and employed as 3 
auch of this timber on her as he could procure, but as this 
vessel is unfortunately gone to the bottom, there is no find- 
ing out whether it is a durable timber or not.” 
The timber of the young trees in the Botanic garden is con- 
siderably harder and closer in the grain, than that of Sissoo 
of the same size, and its growth much slower, 
5. D. alata. R., : 
Arboreous, Leaflets about three pair, opposite, lincariob- 
long, polished. Panicle terminal. Filaments single and nine- 
cleft. Legume linear, with a short polished wing all round, 
Found by Mr, William Roxburgh in the state of a small 
: seante forests of Pulo Pinang. 
6. D. porte ; 
Leaflets from three to four pair, alternate, broad- lonccolate, 
entire, smooth, Panicles terminal, corymbiform. Bractes 
round, ciliate, Stamina in one body. Legume falcate, one 
_ or two-seeded, 
_ Anative of the Moluccas, and by far the smallest Aowered 
species I have yet found, | 
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