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terminal. I'od oblong or .strap-shaped, usually thin and flat, in- 

 dehiscent, not thickened or winged at tlie sutures. Seeds 1-4, reniform, 

 flat-compressed. — Disxnin. America, Africa, Tropical Asia, Australia ; 

 species (50-70. 



An older iiaine lor the genus is Ameriimwn, Browne (Hist. Jamaica, [17^9] p. 288, 

 t. 31, f. 3). 



Stamens 9 (less commonly 10), Mionadelphuus ; staiuinal- 

 tube slit along the upper side only. 

 Tall trees unarnu'd. 



Leaflets acuminate 1. D. Sissoo. 



Leaflets obtuse 2. JD. latifolia. 



A small tree armed with spines 3. D. Melanoxylon. 



Scaudent shrubs. 

 Leaflets 5-7. 



Pod straight 4. D.rubiginosa. 



Pod crescent-shaped 5. D. torta. 



Leaflets 11-15 tt. D. sympathetica. 



Leaflets 25-4 1 7. B. tamarindifolia. 



Stamens 10 ; stamiiial-tube slit on the upper and lower 

 sides, so that the stamens are in 2 bundles of 5 each. 

 Trees. 



Standard ^ in. broad, with a callosity at the base of 



the limb 8. B. lanceolaria. 



Standard ^ in. broad, without a callosity at the base 



of the limb 9. D. faniculata. 



An erect shrub with spine-tipped branchlets 10. D. spinosa. 



A climbing shrub ; leaflets 11-15 11. D. volubilis. 



1. Dalbergia Sissoo, Roxh. Hon. Beng. (1814) p. 53; Fl. Ind. 

 V. 3, p. 223. A tree reaching 60 ft. high ; youug parts pubescent 

 or tomentose ; branches numerous, spreading. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, imparipinnate ; leaf-rhachis zigzag; petioles terete, \ery 

 downy when young ; stipules lanceolate, caducous. Leaflets 3-5, firm, 

 l.}-2.7 by 1^2i (the terminal the largest and the lowest the smallest), 

 distant, alternate, suborbicular, conspicuously and abruptly acuminate, 

 piiberulous when young, soon glabrescent, base narrowed or cuneate ; 

 petiolules i-^ in. long. I'lowers sessile or nearly so, in axillary panicles 

 shorter than the leases and composed of several short subsecund spikes ; 

 rhachis and branches of the panicle densely hairy ; bracts linear- 

 subulate hairy. Calyx ^-i in. long, hairy; teeth short, ciliate, the 

 2 upper connate except at the tip, the lateral linear, obtuse, the lowest 

 the longest, subacute. Corolla pale-yellow, I-5 in. long ; standard 

 I in. broad, with a long claw, the limb obovate-orbicular. Stamens 9 

 in one bundle, the sheath of the filaments slit only at the top. Ovary 

 pubescent ; ovules 2-4. Pods l|-4 by \-k in., narrowed at the base 

 into a long stalk which is twice as long as the calyx, thin, strap-shaped, 

 glabrous, slightly reticulate. Seeds 1-4. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 231 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 55 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 24 ; Bentli. in Jouru. Linn. 

 Soc. V.4 (1860) Suppl. p. 40; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 25 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 74; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426; 

 Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 3, p. 13. — Flowers : Mar.-Juue. Veen. 

 Sisvi. 



Planted, but not extensively, in the Bombay Presidency ; said to be. wild in Gujarat. 

 Graham (1. c.) says that it is common in the Kanheri jungles and the hills about 

 Nagotna, but no doubt self-planted. 



