38 PAPILIONACE^ 



FLEMINGIA. 



Flemingia grahamiana W. & A.; Vol. I p. I2I, t. 318. 

 Flcmingia nilghcriensis IVt. ; Vol. I p. 122 as F. pro- 

 cumbens var. nilgheriensis. t. 319. 



DALBERGIA f.b.i. 50 lxxxvi. 



Trees and large woody climbers with pinnate leaves 

 of alternate leathery leaflets, panicles of numerous small 

 flowers, in which the anthers are small and fixed back to 

 back on their filaments and open by a vertical slit ; and 

 thin flat indehiscent pods containing one or more seeds, 

 but not winged. 



Species about 70, in the tropics. 



Dalbergia latifolia J^oxd. and D. sissoides Grah, are the 

 trees whose wood is usually called ' Rosewood ' in S. India. 



The Indian species were monographed by D. (now Sir David) Prain in 

 the Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Vol. X. 



Dalbergia congcsta Roxh. ; F.B.I, ii 232, LXXXVI 8, in 

 part. Leaflets I by ^ inch, elliptic or obovate, obtuse, 

 notched. Flowers in small cymose panicles, in the leaf- 

 axils, about y\ inch only. Pod I to 2 inches by M inch, 

 with one oblong seed in the middle. Fyson 6554. 



Nilgiris : On the ghat road below Coonoor, etc. 



Dalbergia gardneriana Benth. ; F.B.I. as part of the 

 last. Like D. congesta, but the branches and under sides 

 of leaflets covered with dense brown tomentum, the 

 leaflets elliptic-oblong, not notched and the panicles 

 more contracted. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor and just below. Fyson 6555. 

 In the F.B.I, these last two species were united. 



DERRIS. F.B.I. 50 Lxxxix. 



Large climbers with imparipinnate leaves with 

 opposite leaflets and showy panicles of small flowers 

 fascicled along the spike or branches of the panicle. 



