230 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Dalbergia. 
ly half the number of leaflets, which those have that unfold 
afterwards, oblong, or elliptic, obtuse, pretty smooth, from one 
to two inches long, and three-fourths of an inch broad. Sti- 
pules ensiform, clothed with ferruginous down. Racemes axil- 
lary, longer than the floral leaves. Flowers numerous, small, 
white, pretty long-pedicelled, from three to six, inserted on 
very short, alternate, common peduncles, Bractes small, en. 
siform, always two of them under the calyx. Calyx cup- 
shaped, villous, smooth, five-toothed, Corol as in the order, 
Filaments one and nine. Germ a short-pedicelled, semilunar — 
body within the base of the nine conjoined filaments, linear, 
hairy, and containing from ten to fourteen ovula, Style as- 
cending. Stigma smooth, Legume linear, from two to three 
inches long, and Jess than half an inch in breadth; upper 
margin sharp and distinetly defined by a strong rib, or nerve, 
to the inside of which the seeds are attached, thin and brittle, 
not opening. Seeds generally from four to eight, small, 
smooth, light brown, lenticular. 
13. D. marginata, Roxb. 
Scandent, scabrous. Leaflets five or seven, lanceolate, 
glossy, obtusely acuminate. Panicle axillary, Stamina 
one and nine. Legumes sub-linear, membrane-margined, 
one-seeded, 
« Mukree gilla, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 
digenous ; it blossoms in the rains, and the seed od Fipens during 
the bot inka: . 
_ Slem woody y, sid with its numerous a Sa branches 
clisbaigp and twining up and over trees, &c, Leaves alternate, 
unequally pinnate, aes six to ten inches Jong, Leaflets two 
or three pair, anda terminal one, petiolate, lanceolate, entire, 
_ points long, narrow, and obtuse, of a firm texture and polish- 
ed, from four to five inches Jong, and from one to two weroad. - 
Panicles axillary, | length of the leaves 
branches spreading as much, Flowers re “ 
der-pedicel led, white, « Calyx pongo a seen black 
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