226 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Dalbeigia. 



7. D. reniformis, R. 



Tender jiarts iex\ugn\oy\f^. Leaflets fVoni five to eleven, 

 alternate, lanceolate. Panicles Ax\Wnvy and latenil. Stamina 

 in two five-cleft bodies ; legumes reniform with thick, round- 

 ed margins. 



Kiires, the vernaoidar name in Silhet, where it is indige- 

 nous ; grows to be a largo, crooked, busby tree, the wood 

 yields a greenish (lame, and is reckoned the best for burning- 

 the lime stone of that district. Flowerino- time March ; and 

 the seed ripens in December. 



Voung shoots, &c. tender parts densely clothed m ith a thick 

 coat of ferruginous down. Leaves alternate, pinnate, about 

 six or eight inches long. Leaflets generally froni five to seven, 

 or nine ; rarely eleven, sub-alternate, short-petioled, lanceo- 

 late, entire, while young villous underneath, at all other times 

 perfectly smooth, and of a firm texture ; tvi o inches long, 

 and one broad. Stipules subulate, villous, caducous. Pa- 

 nicles axillaiy, and below the leaves, and generally shorter 

 than them, very downy, composed of a few, many-flowered, 

 simple branches. Calyx sub-caujpanulate, and like the pa- 

 nicle, clothed with ferruginous down. Corol as in the genus. 

 Stamina in two, equal, five-cleft bodies. Anthers nearly 

 round, two-lobed. Germ pcdicelled, generally two or three- 

 seeded. Style incurved. Stigma simple. Legumes gene- 

 rally of one reniform joint ; and one-celled, compressed, but 

 with thick rounded margins ; about an inch long, and three 

 quarters of an inch broad. When the legume has a second 

 joint, it is like the anther. Seed solitary, renitbrm, &c. as in 

 the order. 



8. D.J'rondosa. Roxb, 



Bark smooth. Leaflets about five pair, alternate, oval, 

 emarginate. Stipules falcate. Panicles axillary. Stigma 

 in two equal bodies. Legume from two to three-seeded. 



A native of Ceylon, and the Peninsula of India. In the 



