Dalberfjiu. diadelpiiia decandiua. 227 



Botanic uardeii (he trees hlossoiu in May and Juno, and (lie 

 seed ripens in September and October. 



Trunk erect, and in a tree oidy seven years old, three 

 feet in circumference ; the hark is particularly smootli, and 

 lif>lit asli-coloured. Brunches spreadino-, nearly horizontal, 

 with luunerous, alternate, bifarious branchlets, fbrniin<>- a 

 large, dense crown ; general height of the tree thirty feet to 

 the top. Leaves alternate, bifarious, pinnate, from six to 

 twelve inches long". Leajlets alternate, short -petioleted, about 

 five on each side, oval, emarginate, smooth, about an inch or 

 an inch and a half long, and one broad, deciduous during the 

 cold season, and appearing with the flowers in May and June. 

 Stipules lanceolate-falcate, caducous. Panicle axillary, so- 

 litary, shorter than the leaves, coniposcul of a iew alternate, 

 bifarious, ascending, siniple, secund, villous branches. Flow- 

 ers pale blue, small, disposed in two approximate, unilate- 

 ral rows on the convex or outside of the branches of the pa- 

 nicle. Bractes small, lanceolate, villous, caducous at a very 

 early period, the largest one below each pedicel, and two 

 pressing the calyx laterally. Cr////;v bilabiate; the upper lip 

 bidentate ; the under one tridentate, the middle one longer. 

 Filaments in two, equal, five-cleft bodies. Germ pedicelled, 

 one-celled, four-seede«l. Stifle shorter than the germ, rising 

 at a rioht angle from it, smooth. Sti(/ma minute, smooth. 

 Legume pedicelled, not opening, lanceolate, from one to iouv- 

 celled, one or two most frequent. Seeds obliquely-renilbini, 

 compressed, smooth. Perisperm none, &c. as in olher Le- 

 fprniinosce. 



It is a quick growing, large, beautiful tree, and the timber 

 useful for many purposes. 



9. D. paniculata. Willd. iii. 903. Roxb. Corom. pi. ii. JS'o. 

 114. 



Leaflets from five to six pair, alternate, obovate-oblong, 

 emarginate. Panicles terminal, one or two-seeded. 



Patswroo is the Telinga name. 



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