Dalbergia 



LEGUMINOSJE 



77 



/. 31, f. 3. A. Brownei J<u-q. Emnn. PL Car'J,. '27 (1760), &/. 

 Stirp. Amer. 199 & Ed. pict. 97, /. 263, /. 86; Sic. Prodr. 104 & 

 Fl. Lid. Occ. lL>34 : Marf. Jam. i :JOO. (Fig. 23.) 



l'>rownc\ Brouqhton\ Shakspcarl l[acf<idij<'H\ Difttinl C liming \ Wilson\ 

 Wullschlaegel ; March I Hope, J.P. 1004, .Morris I between Bath arid Port 

 Morant, Fawcctt & Harris ! Rock Fort, Campbell \ Port Morant, Lucea, 

 Hitchcock; near Port Antonio, MacDougall Greenland, Mr*. Britton, 

 2900 ! Florida Keys, Cuba, Hispaniola, central and northern S. America. 



A shrubby tree, 7-10 ft. high, with branches sometimes twining. Leaflets, 

 4-7 cm. 1. Flowers numerous, white, fragrant ; panicles contracted, short, 

 somewhat corymbose. Calyx 4-5 mm. 1., sparingly pubescent-tornentose 



Fig. 23. Dallerjia Brownei Urb. 



A, Portion of flowering branch x 



B, Calyx x 3. 



C, Standard X 5. 



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D, Stamens X 5. 



E, F, Pods x I. 



G, Pod of D. Ecastaphyttum Taul>. x : .. 



or glabrate,2 upper segments obtuse, lateral triangular, shorter than uj 

 and lower, lower longest, lanceolate, appearing to be awl-shaped from the 

 margins rolled inwards. Standard obcordate-obovate nearly 1 cm. 1. ; 

 wings oblong, nearly as long as the standard; keel-petals united at obtuse 

 apex, much shorter than the wings, 5'5 mm. 1. Stanim* 10, sheath split 

 above or below, or both, uppermost stamens more or le- 1 some- 



times 1-seeded, l'3-2 cm. 1., sometimes S-4-seeded, 3*5-5 cm. 1., about 

 1 cm. br. 



2. D. Ecastaphyllum Tnl>. in Emjl.-Prnnll Pflzfnm. l'ii. 

 l>t. 3, 335 ( l^'.i I Mas ecastophyllum) ; leaflets solitarv, elliptical, 

 shortly acuminate, puberulous bencalli, densely so in youiiic 

 leatie.ts ; stalk of ovary longer than the calyx : }><><! oblique, 

 roundish, puberulous, l-.seedc-l. -Urb. tout. <-it. -j g D, 



