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LK midtijuga Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5865. B. livida Wall Cat. 5866. 

 D. Blumei Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 400. 



Andamaxs ; very common everywhere in the main gronp ; Barren 

 Island, Prain ! Langkawi ; Curtis 2625 ! Perak ; Scortechini 68! Wray 

 2387 ! Kunstler 3346 ! 5963 ! 6481 ! 8667 ! Penang ; Wallich 5665 ! 

 Malacca ; Maingay 602 ! Derry 1167 ! Distrib. Himalayas from Nepal 

 eastward ; Indo-China ; Malay Archipelago. 



All the Perak and Malacca specimens agree exactly with D. rmdtijuga Grah., 

 and that in turn does not differ even as a variety from D. rufa Grah., with the type 

 of which Curtis' Langkawi specimens and the Andaman form exactly coincide. 

 These two forms differ from the Upper Burma and Himalayan plant in having 

 fewer-fld., laxer panicles, with a glabrescent instead of a downy calyx. The pods are, 

 however, identical in both. It has been usual to quote Roxburgh without qualifica- 

 tion as the authority for this species, in spite of the fact that he has described as 

 belonging to it, the fruit that belongs to D. Millettii. And it has been also usual to 

 cite Derris pimiata Lour, as this plant, overlooking the fact that Derris pinnata 

 has glabrous leaflets and, presumably, only monospermous pods. The writer has 

 not seen Loureiro's original specimens ; his description of D. pinnata, however, 

 certainly applies more aptly to D. Millettii than it does to D. tamarindifolia, which 

 moreover does not appear to have such a root as Loureiro describes. In any case 

 until specimens can be produced, D. 'pinnata should be treated as indetermin- 

 able. 



7. Dalbergia pseudo-stssoo Miq. Flor, Ind. Bat. I, 128. A shrnbby 

 climber 15-25 feet long with twining, glabrous branches. Leaves glab- 

 rous medium-green, 6 in. long, leaflets firm 1-5, oblong slightly narrowed 

 from beyond the middle to the cuneate or rounded base, widely rounded 

 and abruptly cuspidate at apex, 2-4 ia. long 1-2 in. wide, rachis 2-3 

 in., petiolules '25 in. long. Flowers in lax axillary panicles with sub- 

 corymbose branches, 2'5-3'5 in. long and almost as broad, the branches 

 finely grey-downy ; pedicels '15 in. long with slender subulate bracteoles 

 under the calyx. Calyx campanulate "2 in. long, externally puberulous, 

 teeth widely triangular obtuse much shorter than the tube. Corolla '35 

 in. long, petals creamy-white with pink tips their claws as long as the 

 calyx. Stamens 9 monadelphous. Ovary long-stalked, densely pubes- 

 cent 1-, or often 2-ovuled, style slender incurved. Pod brownish, strap- 

 shaped, obtuse, 3-4 in. long, •5-"65 in. wide, seed solitary. D. Championii 

 Thw. Enun PI. Zeyl. 95 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 39; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 231. D. Sissoo Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 128 

 not of Roxb. 



Perak; Larat, Kunstler 3177! 3340! 3579! 4964! 6565! Scor- 

 techini 1348! Wray 2098! 2965! Pexaxg ; Government Hill, Curtis! 

 Singapore ; Bukit Mandai and elsewhere, HuUett ! Ridley ! Distrib. 

 Ceylon ; Malay Islands. 



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