228 DiADELPHiA DECANDKiA. Dalbeiyia. 



This is also a large (ree,and a native of the stune mountains 

 as the preceding- species. Flowers about the beginning of 

 the hot season. 



Trunk erect. Bark pretly smooth, of a light ash-colour. 

 Branches numerous, spreading-, forming a very fine, close, 

 shady head. Branchlets ascending. Leaven alternate, bi- 

 farious, pinnate, with an odd one; from four to five inches 

 long. Leaflets generally from three to five pair, alternate, 

 oblong-, smooth, often emarginate, nearly equal, about one 

 inch and a half long, and about one broad. Stipules lan- 

 ceolate, falcate. Panicles terminal, leafy, large, generally 

 bifarious; ramifications alternate, round, downy. Floicers 

 numerous, small, white, with a faint tinge of blue. Cabfx 

 of a deep blackish purple, and hairy. Mings as long as the 

 banner. Keel half the length of the wings, two-petalled, only 

 slightly united for a little way at the middle. Filaments 

 two, lateral, equal, ascending, each divided into five. ^^n- 

 thers twin, singly globular. Legume lanceolar. Seed gene- 

 rally single. 



JVote. The wood of this tree is m liite, and firm to appear- 

 ance, but less useful than some of the other species. 



10. D. zeylanica. JR. 



Bark cracked. Leaflets six-paired, alternate, cuneate- 

 oblong; emarginate. Stipules oblong. P«?iic/(?s axillary. 

 Legume lanceolar, from one to three-seeded. 



Cing. Beloo-labba. 



A large, elegant tindjer tree, a native of Ceylon ; from 

 thence sent to the Botanic garden by General Hay 3Iacdow- 

 all in 1801 ; where in six years, they began to blossom in 

 May and June, and the seed ripened in September and Octo- 

 ber. 



11. D.Jerruginea. Roxb. 



Leaflets from six to eight pair, alternate, oblong', emargi- 

 nate. Stipules and hractes from broad obovate, to linearly 



