Dalhergia. diadeiimua dkcanduia. 229 



cuneate. Puniclen nxillary. lUamcuts in two equal bo- 

 dies. Legume lanceolate, from t\vo to four-seeded. 



A native of llie Islands east of the Bay of Bengal. Ten- 

 der hranchlets clothed \\\{\\ feiTU}>inous down. Leaves 

 alternate, pinnate, from four to six inches long*. Leaf- 

 lets six or eight pair, alternate, sub-sessile, linear-oblong-, 

 eniarginate, a little hairy, nearly one inch long, and scarcely 

 half so nuich broad. Stipules broad obovate; apex almost 

 premorse, downy. Panicles axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves ; racemes simple, secund, and ferruginous. Bructes, 

 the larger one under each division of the panicle like ihe 

 stipules; those of the flowers also solitary, one-flowered, and 

 narrower ; those of the calyx, one on each side, narrow-cu- 

 neate. Flowers numerous, small. Calyx hairy ; upper lip 

 of two rounded lobes; lower of three long, acute segments. 

 Filaments ten, in two equal bodies. Anthers broadly two- 

 lobed. Germ pedicelled, margins hairy. Legume lanceo- 

 late, from two to four-seeded. 



12. D. Krowee. 



Arboreous. Leajlets from ten to eighteen pair, sub-oppo- 

 site, oblong". Racemes axillary, solitary. Filaments one 

 and nine. Legumes linear, black, sharp, from four to eight- 

 seeded. 



Krowee, is the vernacular name in Silhet, where the tree is 

 indigenous, and groMs quickly to a large size, yielding tim- 

 ber of a dark brown colour, and rather too porous for furni- 

 ture, but seems very fit tor various other purposes. Flowering- 

 time Aj)ril, seed ripens in December. 



Trunk of considerable size, but geneially crooked. Bark 

 embossed with transverse protuberances on a smooth bright 

 ash-coloured ground ; inwardly very fibrous, but rather fri- 

 able. Wood very tirni and of a brownish gray colour. Leaves 

 unequally pinnate, from six to ten inches long. I^eajlets from 

 five to twenty pairs ; from opposite to alternate, those which 

 first expand may be called the floral leaves, and have scarce- 



