396 XLTin. LEGUMINOS^. 



The wood is yaluable and is largely employed in Bengal for boat-building, carts, and 

 furniture. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. I.'c.-Di.strib. India (planted throughout 

 the plains, indigenous iu the Sub-Himalayas from the Indus to Assam). 



2. Dalbergia latifolia, Boxh. Cor. PL v. 2 (1798) p. 7, t. 113. A 



large glabrous tree reaching 80 ft. high; branches numerous, spreading, 

 forming a shady head. Leaves imparipinnate, 4-6 iu. long ; rhachis 

 straight, glabrous, much produced beyond the insertion of the uppermost 

 pair of leaflets. Leaflets 5-7 (usually 5), firm, 1^-2^ in. long, nearly as 

 broad as long (the terminal slightly the largest), broadly ovate or sub- 

 orbicular, rounded, sometimes emarginate at the apex, glabrous on both 

 sides, pale beneath, base shortly cuneate ; petiolules -i— ^ ^^- lo"n- Flowers 

 in axillary or extra-axillai-y lax divaricate panicles usually shorter than 

 the leaves ; pedicels j^^^ in. long, filiform ; bracts minute ; bracteoles 

 membranous, very caducous. Calyx i-i in. long, glabrous ; teeth linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than the tube. Corolla 5 in. long, 

 greenish- or yellowish-white, the petals with long claws. Stamens 9 in 

 one bundle. " Ovary glabrous ; ovules 3-5. Pods 1^-3 by ^-^ in., 

 strap-shaped, slightly reticulated, glabrous. Seeds 1-3 (rarely 4). 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 231 ; Grab. Cat. p. 55 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 77 ; Bedd. 

 Flor. Sylvat. t. 24; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 4 (1860) Suppl. 

 p. 38 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 74 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 426 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 7.— Flowers : Aug. 

 Vern. Shisham ; Sissn ; Biii. 



The Blackwood or lioscwood tree of S. India. Konkan : Stocisl , Law I, Capt. 

 Ocbnniel, DahcU ^- Gihsoii. Deccan : hills, Woodrow. S. M. Country : Dahell 4' 

 (iibson. Kanaka: associated with teak iu the high timber forests of N. Kanara, 

 'I'a/bot ; banks of Kala naddi river, Law ex Graham. — Dn^Tmn. India (Oude, 

 ]']. Bengal, Beliar, Sikkim, Bandclkhand, C. India, W. Peninsula). 



The tree furnishes a valuable hard and heavy wood which sinks iu water before 

 seasoning. It is tlie wood froui which the well-known Bombay blackwood furniture is 

 made and eomuiands a very liigli ju'lce in tlie market. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. e. 



3. Dalbergia Melanoxylon, Gnill. 4' J*cr. Flor. Senecj, v. 1 

 (1830) p. 227, t. 53. A small tree 15-20 ft. high ; branches more or 

 less arnied with stout spines ; bark white. Leaves 4-5 in. long : 

 stipules very caducous. Leaflets 9-15, thinly subcoriaceous, |-| by 

 }-| in. (the terminal the largest, obovate, cuneate, the lateral oblong), 

 obtuse emarginate, glabrous above and nearly so beneath ; petiolules 

 J^ in. long. Flowers numerous, in axillary panicles about equalliug the 

 leaves : pedicels Tj'o^-yV in. long ; bracts and bracteoles minute, linear. 

 Calyx jV~1 i"- ^°"S' pubescent ; teeth ciliolate, the 2 upper obtuse, the 

 2 lateral smaller, linear-oblong, obtuse, the lowest twice as long as the 

 lateral, linear, acute. Corolla i in. long, yellou ; standard i in. broad, 

 oblong-obovate, emarginate. Stamens 9 (in all that I have examined), 

 monadelphous, the central stamen longer than the others. Ovary 

 glabrous ; style short. Pods 1-2.| in. long, 1-seeded and then short, 

 broadly elliptic-lanceolate, acute (sometimes 2-seeded and then oblong, 

 elongate), qiiite glabrous, reticulately veined, narrowed into a stalk 

 i-J in. long. Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 24 ; Prain, in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. V. 66 (1898) p. 446. D. StocksU, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 4 

 (1860) Suppl. p. 42; Baker, iu Hook. f. Fl. B. L v. 2, p. 234; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 75; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 426. 



