Dalbergia, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 297 
Botanic garden the trees blossom in May and June, and the 
seed ripens in September and October. 
Trunk erect, and in a tree only seven years old, three 
feet in circumference ; the bark is particularly smooth, and 
light ash-coloured. Branches spreading, nearly horizontal, 
with numerous, alternate, bifarious branchlets,, forming a 
large, dense crown; general height of the tree thirty feet to 
the top. Leaves alternate, bifarious, pinnate, from six to 
twelve inches long. Leaflets alternate, short-petioleted, about 
five on each side, oval, emarginate, smooth, about an inch or 
an inch and a half long, and one broad, deciduous during the 
cold season,and appearing with the flowers in May and June. 
Stipules \anceolate-falcate, caducous. Panicle axillary, so- 
litary, shorter than the leaves, composed of a few alternate, 
bifarious, ascending, simple, secund, villous branches. Flow- 
ers pale blue, small, disposed in two approximate, unilate- 
ral rows on the convex or outside of the branches of the pa- 
nicle. Bractes small, lanceolate, villous, caducous at a very 
early period, the largest one below each pedicel, and two 
pressing the ealyx laterally. Calyx bilabiate ; the upper Ap 
bidentate ; the under one tridentate, the middle one longer. 
Filaments in two, equal, five-cleft bodies. Germ pedicelled, 
one-celled, four-seeded. Sty/e shorterthan the germ, rising 
at a right angle from it, smooth, Stigma minute, smooth. 
Legume pedicelled, not opening, lanceolate, from one to four- 
; celled, one or two most frequent. Seeds obliquely-reniform, 
compressed, smooth, Perisperm none, &c, as in other Le- 
gummose, 
It isa caaken growing, large, beautiful tree, and the timber 
useful for many parposes, 
9. D. panicylata, Willd. iii, 903. Roxb, Corom, pl. ii. No. 
114, 
Snialinie from five to six pair, alternate, obovate-oblong, 
_ emarginate, — Panicles terminal, one or two-seeded, 
seatensen } is the Telinga name. 
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