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as tube. Corolla white '25 in. long, claws of petals short. Stamens 9 

 mouadelphous. Pod thin glabrous, 2-3 in. long -75-1 in. wide, J-3- 

 seeded, stalk very short. Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 41 ; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 233. 



Andamans ; very common. Distrib. Eastern Himalaya, Assam, 

 Chittagong, Pegu. 



A very distinct species; the description of the pod given in the Flora of British 

 India is appax-eutly taken from another species. 



3. Dalbergia Junghuhnii Benth. PI. Jungh. 254. A shrubby 

 climber 15-30 feet long, with twining glabrous branches, here and there 

 twisted and thickened into spiral hooks. Leaves 4-5 in. lono-, leaflets 

 7-15, oblong or elliptic, rounded at both ends faintly emarginate at the 

 apex, green and glabrous above, glaucescent and glabrous or faintly 

 puberulous beneath, -6-1 '5 in. long •35-75 in. wide; rachis 2-5-4 in. 

 long, petiolales '15 in. long. Flowers minute, secund in an ample ter- 

 minal and in smaller axillary paniculate cymes 2 in. wide and as long as 

 the leaves, peduncle branches and pedicels pubescent; bracts minute 

 caducous ; bracteoles all persistent, one at base of short pedicel lanceo- 

 late acuminate very minute, two at base of calyx ovate-obtuse embrac- 

 ing the lower third of calyx-tube. Calyx '08 in. campanulate, teeth 

 short obtuse one-third as long &s tube, except the lower acute half as 

 long as tube. Corolla white, '15 in. long, claws of petals short. Stamens 

 9 monadelphous. Ovary pubescent. Pod thin membranous greenish, 

 glabrous, 25-3 in. long, 1-13 in. wide, 1-seeded, slightly cuneate at base 

 and distinctly stalked. 



Var. typica ; leaflets usually 7-9, oblong, glabrous or only faintly 

 puberulous beneath. D. Junghuhnii Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. IV 

 Suppl. 33; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 129; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. Il' 

 233. 



Penang ; 500 feet, Curtis ! Malacca ; Maingay 547 ! 547/2 ! Good- 

 enough ! Berry ! S]NGkFORE ; Hullett 141! Ridley \ Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Java. 



Var. Scortecliinii Prain ; leaflets 11-15 elliptic, beneath more close- 

 ly puberulous especially on midrib. 



Penang ; Ayer Etam, Curtis 1437 ! Malacca ; Bijong, Scortechini 

 1830! Maingay 549! Singapore; Bukit Timah, Midley Q4iOQ\ Distkib. 

 Borneo. 



These two plants differ in no way as regards flowers ; the leaves however differ 

 considerably in appearance and it may ultimately be found that the second variety— 

 of which the fruit is as yet unknown— should be known as a distinct species, 

 Dalbergia Scortechinii. The original specimens on which Mr. Bentham founded the 

 specieti were collected by Junghuhn in Suinatra and by Griffith in Malacca ; the 

 writer has not seen cither. Mr. Beutham describes the ovary as glabrous in his 



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