228 - DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, - Dalbergia. 
This is also a large tree, and a native of the same mountains 
- as the preceding species, Flowers about the beginning of 
the hot season. 
Trunk erect. Bark pretty smooth, of a light ash-colour. 
Branches numerous, spreading, forming a very fine, close, 
shady head. Branchlets ascending. Leaves alternate, bi- 
farious, pinnate, with an odd one; from four to five inches 
long. Leaflets generally from three to five pair, alternate, 
oblong, smooth, often emarginate, nearly equal, about one 
inch and a half long, and about one broad, Stipules lan- 
ceolate, faleate. Panicles terminal, leafy, large, generally 
bifarious; ramifications alternate, round, downy. lowers 
numerous, small, white, with a faint tinge of blue. Calyx 
of a deep blackish purple, and hairy. Wings as long as the 
banner. Keel half the length of the wings, two-petalled, only 
slightly united for a little way at the middle. ilaments 
two, lateral, equal, ascending, each divided into five, .4n-- - 
thers twin, singly globular. Legume lanceolar. Seed gene- 
rally single, 
_ Note. The wood of this tree is white, and firm to appear- 
ance, but less useful than some of the other species, 
10. D. zeylanica, R. 
Bark cracked. Leaflets six-paired, alternate, cuneate- 
oblong; emarginate, Stipules oblong. Panicles axillary. 
Legume \anceolar, aoe one to three-seeded. 
_ Cing. Beloo-labba. — 
» A large, elegant: satber tree, a native of Ceylon; from 
thénde sent to the Botanic garden by General Hay Macdow- 
all in 1801; where in six years, they began to blossom in 
eer Se and June and the ees Site in ——* and Octo- 
. 
11.D Ds ferries Roxb. ae 
Leaflets from six to eon pair, ions Sblong emargi- 
nate. Stipules and bractes from broad obovate, to linearly a | 
