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grey-pubescent, dull beneath ; rachis 2-5-4 in. long, grooved above, 

 glabrous as are the petiolules '2 in. long. Flowers in very long copious 

 short-peduncled axillary racemes, sometimes 15-18 in. in length, with 

 distant tumid nodes sometimes produced into short branches each 

 bearing a cluster o£ uiiequal slender pedicels •15-"25 in. long, the various 

 flowers from one node expanding successively, rachis and pedicels finely 

 adpressed-pubescent, the pedicels 2-bracteolate under the calyx, the 

 bracteoles ovate minute. Calyx "12 in. long, thinly silky, wide-campn- 

 nulate, teeth obscure, GoroUa white to pale-rose, '35 in. long. Stamens 

 moiLadelphous. Ovary finely puberulous ; ovules 6-8. Foci 1-3 in. loner, 

 •4--5 in. wide, narrowed to both ends, narrowly winged along tlie upper 

 suture, 1-4 seeded, uniformly finely adpressed giey-silky, somewhat 

 turgid against the seeds. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 240. Dulbergia 

 scandens Roxb. Cor. PI. II, t. 192 ; DC. Prodr. II, 417 ; Wall. Cat. 5857 ; 

 Roxb. Flor. Ind. 111,232; W. & A. Prodr. 264; Wight, Ic. t. 275^ 

 Dalbergia timorensis DC. Prodr. II, 417. Pongamia coriacea Grab, in 

 Wall. Cat. 5905. Brachypterum scandens Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. 

 II, 101 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 138. Brachypterum timorense Benth. 

 in Miq. PI. Jungh. 253 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 138. 



Andamans ; very common everywhere. Nicobars : plentiful. Penang ; 

 Curtis 979 ! Pahang : Ridley 2639 ! Distrib. South-Eastern Asia to 

 North Austialia, general. 



Mr. Baker has described the pod as glabrous ; it never becomes quite glabrous 

 even when ripe. Though the name Berris scandens is most ^'enerally used for this 

 species, it has to be pointed out that, so soon as Deguelia is recocrnised to be the best 

 generic name, this species will have to be known as Deguelia timorensis Taub. 

 (Natilr. Pflanzenfam. Ill, 3. 345j because Deguelia scandens is the original name 

 for the American plant at present known as Derris guianensis Bth. The genus was 

 published under the name Deguelia before it was published under the name Derris. 



5. Derris dalbkrgioides Bak. in Flor. Brit. lud. II, 241. A 

 spreading tree 30-40 feet high ; branchlets silky-pubescent. Leaves 6-8 

 in. long by 1-5-2 in. wide, leaflets 25-39, linear rounded-obtuse at both 

 ends slightly oblique at the base the apex slightly emarginate, 1 in. 

 long, -35 in. wide, firmly papery, adpressed pubescent on both sides, dark- 

 greeii above paler beneath, lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, indistinct, rachis 

 5-G in. long and petiolules ■1-15 in. rusty-pubescent. Floivers in 

 copious short-peduncled axillary racemes 3-6 in. long very rarely ex- 

 ceeding the leaves, about •65-*75 in. wide with crowded tumid nodes 

 each bearing a dense cluster of unequal short pedicels "l in. long or less, 

 the various florets of a node expanding successively, rachis and pedicels 

 brown silky-pubescent, the pedicels 2-bracteolate under the calyx, the 

 bract^eoles linear '08 in. long. Calyx '15 in. long, densely brown-silky, 

 shortly but distinctly toothed, the teeth deltoid the lower subequal, the 



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