232 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Dalbergia. 
Avery large, woody, twining species, a native of the 
mountainous countries on the coast, where it runs up vise 
over the highest trees. 
Branches, their extremities often twine round whatever they 
meet with in the form of tendrils. Leaves alternate, bifari- 
~ ous, pinnate, with an odd one, four or five inches long. Leaf 
lets about five pair, not opposite, nor alternate, but between 
the two ; oval, small, pointed, entire, smooth, the exterior larg- 
est, about an inch long, by three quarters of an inch broad. 
Stipules scarcely any. Panicles terminal, large, bifarious; 
ramifications generally two-forked, and diverging. Flowers 
small, very numerous, blue. Bractes a small one below each, 
pedicelled, and two still smaller pressing on the ealyx, ob- 
long, nut-coloured. Banner orbicular, emarginate ; keel be- 
low two-parted. Filaments two, placed laterally, each five- 
cleft, &c. as in the last. Legume pedicelled, linearly oblong, 
obtuse, membranaceous, waved, smooth, from two to three - 
inches long, by one broad; not opening, from one to two- 
seeded, 
16. D. scandens, R, Corom. pl. ii. N. 192. . 
Climbing. Leaflets opposite, oblong-lanceolate. Racemes 
axillary, as long as the leaves, Legumes linear-lanceolate, 
two or three-seeded, 
Beng. Noa-luta. 
Noél valli. Rheed. Mal. vi. t. 22. In Willd. Sp. Pl. Vah?s 
Symbol. and Martin’s Edition of Miller’s Dictionary, this 
figure is quoted for D. /anceolaria, which 1 think it cannot 
be for very obvious reasons, 
Cheratalee badoo of the Telingas, 
A common, very large, woody, climbing, or twining spe- 
cies. Flowers during the wet season, 
Branches pendulous,remarkably long, and slender. Leaves 
alternate, pinnate, with an odd one, about six inches long: 
Leaflets from three to five pairs, opposite, oblong, or broad- 
lanceolate, obtuse, smooth, shining, entire ; from two to three 
