XLYIII. LEQUM1N08.E. 399 



2-3. Pods 1^-3 by ^-.5 in., thin, greeiiisli, drying bright reddish-brown, 

 strap-.sliaped, glabrous, shining, slightly reticulate. F\. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 234 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 4 (18G0) p. 44; Talb. Trees, 

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

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. KJ. — Flowers : Mar.-May. 



Konkan: Law \, Stocks \ Kanaka: in evergreen forests on the S. Ghiits of N. 

 Kanara, common, Talhot ; Nilkund (N. Kanara), Woodrow. — Distuib. India (Hima- 

 layas from Nipal eastwards, W. Peninsula) ; Indo-Ohina, Malaya. 



Var. 1. puhescens. Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 235. Branches 

 and underside oF leaves clothed with persistent thick ferruginous 

 pubescence. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! 



Vae. 2. acacife- folia, Baker, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 235. Leaflets 

 thicker, rigidly coriaceous, dark-green and shining above, glaucous and 

 more or less hairv beneath. I), acacicrfolia (sp.), Dalz. in Kew Journ. 

 Bot. V. 2 (1850) p". 37.— Flowers : Apr.' 



KoNKAN : Law\, Dalzell'. Kanaka: Dalzell. 



This would appear to deserve tlie rank of a separate species. 



8. Dalbergia lanceolaria, Lhin. f. Suppl. Fl. (1781) p. 316. A 

 large tree 30-40 ft. high ; bark grey. Leaves 3-7 in. long ; stipules 

 minute, caducous. Leaflets f-lg by |-f in., elliptic or oblong, obtuse, 

 eniarginate, glabrous above, pale and more or less puberulous beneath, 

 base rounded or subacute ; main nerves very oblique, numerous, parallel, 

 conspicuous ; petiolules ^-1- in. long. Flowers in copious axillary and 

 terminal leafless panicles clothed with rufous pubescence ; pedicels -^uin. 

 long, rufous-hairy ; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous. Calyx 1 in. 

 long, silky-hairy ; teeth half as long as the tube, cihate, the 2 upper 

 obtuse, the 2 lateral equalling the upper, subacute, the lowest the 

 longest, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla | in. long ; standard broadly 

 obovate, j in. broad, with a large callosity above the claw. Stamens in 

 2 bundles of 5 each. Ovary stalked, usually hairy at the base ; ovules 3. 

 Pods 2-| in. broad and when 1-seeded 14-2 in. long (when 2-seeded 

 sometimes reaching 4 in. long), thin, flexible, narrowed to the point and 

 gradually at the base into a long stalk, glabrous or nearly so, reticulately 

 veined. Fl. E. I. v. 2, p. 235 : Dalz. & Gibs. p. 78 ; Benth. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. v. 4 (1860) Suppl. p. 45 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 88 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 75 ; A\^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. "v. 11 (1897) p. 426 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 6. D. frondosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 p. 53; Wight, Icon. t. 266 ; Grab. Cat. p. 55.— Flowers : Mar.-May. 

 Veen. Damlus ; Harrdni. 



KoNKAN : rare, Dalzell tf- Gib.fon. Deccan : Lalliug Gli.it, Khandesh, Graham ; 

 Alandi, Woodrow. Kanaka : deciduous forests of N. Kanara from Mandgod to Sidda- 

 ))ur, common, Jalhof. — Distkib. Throughout India ; Ceylon. 



9. Dalbergia paniculata, lioxh. Cor. FL v. 2 (1789) p. 8, t. 114, 

 X tree sometimes reaching 50 feet high ; young branches clothed with 

 greyish-brown pubescence ; bark smooth, greenish-white. Leaves 4- 

 6 in. long ; rhachis glabrous. Leaflets 9-13, rigidly subcoriaceous, |-1 

 by ^— I in., obovate, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, emarginate, glabrous ; 

 petiolules yV-y-^ ^"- ^^'^K- Flowers subsessile, in copious terminal 

 (less commonly axillary) subcymose panicles, the branches denselv 

 clothed with ferruginous pubescence; bracts oblong, hairy, caducous. 



