226 _ DIADELPHIA DEcANDRIA. =—— Dalbergia. 
. 7. D. reniformis, R. 
Tender parts ferruginous. Leaflets from five to eleven, 
alternate, lanceolate. Panieles axillary and lateral. Stamina 
in two five-cleft bodies ; egumes reniform with thick, round- 
ed margins. 
Kures, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indige- 
nous; grows to be a large, crooked, bushy tree, the wood 
yields a greenish flame, and-is reckoned the best for burning 
the lime stone of that district. Flowering time March ; and 
the seed ripens in December. 
Young shoots, &e. tender parts densely clothed with a thick 
coat of ferruginous down. Leaves alternate, pinnate, about 
six or eight inches long. Leaflets generally from five to seven, 
or nine; rarely eleven, sub-alternate, short-petioled, lanceo- 
_ late, entire, while young villous underneath, at all other times 
perfectly smooth, and of a firm texture; two inches long, 
and one broad. Stipules subulate, villous, caducous, Pa- 
— nicles axillary, and below the leaves, and generally shorter 
than them, very downy, composed of a few, many-flowered, 
simple branches. Calyx sub-campanulate, and like the pa- 
nicle, clothed with ferruginous down. Corol as in the genus. 
Stamina in two, equal, five-cleft bodies, Anthers nearly 
round, two-lobed. Germ pedicelled, generally two or three- 
seeded. Style incurved, Stigma simple, Legumes gene- 
rally of one reniform joint; and one-celled, compressed, but 
with thick rounded margins; about an inch long, and three 
quarters of an inch broad, When the legume has a second 
joint, it is like the anther. Seed solitary, reniform, &c. a8 in 
the order, 
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8. D. pe es Roxb. 
Bark smooth. Leaflets about five pair, “alternate, oval, 
-emarginate, Stipules falcate. Panicles axillary. Stigm | 
in two equal bodies. Legume from two to three-seeded. — 
A native of Ceylon, and the Peninsula of India, Ine ae 
