43. JPAPILIONACEM [27. Dalbebgia. 



A small tree. Lflts. sub-orbicular with round or emargmate 

 tip, 1-4", glabrous. Pis. pure white in very numerous lax 

 axillary and terminal pauicles 2-4" long. "Pod relatively 

 b reader than in Sissu 1-3 rarely 4-seeded. 



Not uncommon as a small tree. esp. on cool aspects and along streams, 

 but it has been largely cut out in Singhhum. A large tree, common in the 

 Tundi forests, Campbell; Hazaribagh (Topchanohi, Sitagarah hill); 

 Palamau (Kuru-Chandwar, etc.); S. P. scarce. 



Fls. Sept., when the tree is in full leaf, often from the old leaf scars. 

 Fr. Jany.-Feb. A valuable wood. 



Lflts. usually very unequal on the same rachis. Petiolules $-$*. 

 Pedicels i'-£". Calyx white H*- Corolla tw**vj as long. Pods 1^5» 

 by I""!'' stipxtate. 



3. P, lanceolaria, L. Koiad, Kiachalom, K.\ Chapot 

 Siris, S.; Hardi, Kharw. 



A mod.-sized tree* somewhat resembling a 'Sins', but 

 leaves simply pinnate reaching 1 ft. with 9-12 (or on the 

 smaller leaves fewer) oblong, ell. or obovate-oblong lflts. 

 Fls. white or tinged with pink with a purple calyx on 

 unilateral racemes arranged in axillary fulvous-pubescent 



Eanicles 2-4" long. Pod 2-4" by |-§", 1-3-seeded narrowed 

 oth ends and often sinuate between the seeds. 



Valleys in Singbhum and Gangpur, usually near water. Manbbom and 

 Hazaribagh, frequent on the hills. Banehi, esp. on ghats. Falamau. S. P. 

 (Silingi, Gamble). Fls. April-May with the new leaves. Fr. Sept.-Jany 

 Nearly evergreen. 



Innovations yellow-silky. Stipules linear-oblong caduco s. Lflts* 

 reaching 2 V by \\'' emarginate with few short scattered hairs both sides, 

 base obtuse rarely acute. Sec n. numerous oblique, reticulate between. 

 Fls. i" articulate. Calyx -&". Stalk of pod H"« 



A young forest of suckers springs up around tms tree subsequent to 

 the trampling of the surface roots by cattle. 



There are two forms :■—<*• Panicles and racemes lax. Fls. nearly \" 

 Calyx hairy with the anterior-lobe about $-fth length of tube. 



3. Racemes very dense in very numerous close panicles. Fls. &"-$". 

 Calyx densely hairy with the anterior lobe as long as tube. S. P. 



4. D. paniculata, Roxb. 



The only record of this from Ch. Nagpur, or indeed from Bengal, is 

 by Gamble in a list at the end of a Forest Report (1885). It is so like D. 



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