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specimens, it is hairy in all the specimens above cited where there are flowers. The 

 most nearly related species are D. suhsympathetica, which has much smaller leaflets 

 with rather larger flowers in more numerous less ample cymes; and D. sympathetica 

 which also has rather larger flowers and smaller leaflets. In D. sympathetica how- 

 ever the leaflets are more numerous and the pod though similar is more shortly 

 stalked. 



Mr. Bentham, who had not seen fruit of this when he wrote, suggested that this 

 might prove to be the same as D. parviflora Roxb. One objection to this suggestion 

 is the very small number of leaflets described by Roxburgh ; a still more fatal ob- 

 jection, however, is in the pod; this Roxburgh describes as falcate,— an indication 

 that D. parviflora should be sought for in § Selenolohium rather than in § Sissoa. 



4. Dalbergia substmpathetica Prain. A tall climber 60-80 feet 

 long, less often a scandent shrab or small tree 15-30 feet high, with 

 twining puberulous branches. Leaves 1*5-3 in. long, leaflets 9-15 oblong, 

 apex truncate or emarginate base wide-cuneate or rounded, green and 

 glabrous above, paler and pubescent with long adpressed hairs beneath, 

 •25-4 in. long, '2-S in. wide ; rachis 1-2 5 in. long, densely puberulous 

 as are the petiolules -1 in. long. Flowers minute secund, in small axil- 

 ary paniculate cymes, -75-1 in. across, as long as the leaves, peduncle 

 •5--7 in., branches and pedicels pubescent ; bracts minute caducous ; 

 bracteoles all persistent, one at base of short pedicel lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, very minute, two at base of calyx ovate-obtuse embracing lower 

 fourth of calyx-tube. Calyx 1 in. campanulate, teeth short obtuse one- 

 third as long as tube, except the lower acute half as long as tube. 

 Corolla white, '2 in. long, claws of petals short. Stamens 9, monadel- 

 phous. Ovary glabrous except along anterior suture. Pod thin 

 membranous greenish glabrous, 25 in. long, 1 in. wide, 1-seeded ; slight- 

 ly cuneate at base and distinctly stalked. 



Penang ; Curtis 1492 ! Perak ; Scortechini 201 ! 1071 ! Wray 2086 I 

 3205 ! Kunstler 2354 ! 3562 ! 4978 ! 5182 ! 



Very near D. Junghuhnii and just possibly only a variety of that species ; it is 

 however easily distinguished by its much smaller leaflets and its smaller, more 

 numerous cymes of rather larger but still very minute flowers. 



5. Dalbergia velutina Benth. PI. Jungh. 255. A long climber 

 with rusty densely pubescent branches. Leaves 6-8 in. long, leaflets 

 13-17, oblong obtuse or subacute membranous, 1-5-2 in. long, •6-8 in. 

 wide, dark-green glabrescent to puberulous above, rusty-puberulous to 

 pubescent beneath, stipules large densely pubescent, rachis 5-6 in. long 

 puberulous or pubescent, as are the petiolules '1 in. long. Flowers in 

 somewhat dense axillary panicles, with corymbose branches, 4 in. long 

 2*5 in. wide, the peduncles branches and pedicels densely pubescent, 

 bracts rather large ovate and bracteoles narrowly lanceolate persistent 

 pubescent; the pair at base of calyx half as long as pedicel one-third as 

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