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leaves with solitary or trifoliolate leaflets ; when trifoliolate the lateral leaflets are 

 snboppoaite. It tlius approaches most nearly to D. pseudo-sissoo which also has 

 flowers similar to those of D. Hullettii and of Haviland's species from Borneo. 



§ 3. Selenolobium. Pod thickened throughout upper suture, re- 

 curved at least while young. 



9. Dalbergia torta Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5873. An unarmed 

 littoral climber with twining glabrescent branches often twisted into 

 spiral hooks. Leaves 3 in. long, leaflets 5 (very rarely 7 or 3), obovate- 

 oblong obtuse sometimes eraarginate, dark-green and glabrous above 

 paler and sparingly adpressed-puberuloas beneath, '6-"8 in. long, ■4-*6 

 in. wide; rachis 2 in. long glabrous as are the petiolules '1 in. long. 

 Flowers in sessile congested axillary panicles, 1-2 in. long, with very 

 slightly puberulous branches, bracts small ovate-lanceolate persistent ; 

 pedicels very short with a small ovate-lanceolate bracteole at the base 

 and with two larger ovate bracteoles under the calyx embracing lower 

 third of its tube. Calyx glabrescent, wide-campanulate, '15 in. long, 

 teeth short, wide-triangular, obtuse. Corolla white, '25 in. long, claws 

 of petals as long as calyx-tube. Stamens 10 monadelphous. Pod brown 

 flat glabrous, -9 in. long, '5 in. wide, upper suture recurved, rather 

 thick- walled throughout, 1-seeded; stalk as long as calyx. D. monos- 

 perma Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II, 36 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 IV, Suppl. 48; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 132; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 II, 237. 



Andamans : very common on all the coasts of the main group ; 

 Narcondam, Prain ! Penang; Wallich 5873! Curtis 220 \ Langkawi ; 

 Curtis 2868! Perak ; coast at Matong, Scortechini 1099! Wray 2502! 

 Malacca; at Tanjong Kling, Ridley 3312! Singapore; growing in salt 

 water, Kunstler QQ ! Krangi, Ridley 5576 ! 2\ Anderson ! Kurz ! Distrib. 

 Western coasts of India ; Suudribuns ; Burma ; Borneo ; New Guinea ; 

 China. • 



A purely littoral species. The citation of Wall. Cat. 5879 by Dr. Miqnel and 

 Mr. Baker for this species is due to their having copied the statement from 

 Mr. Bentham. By an uncorrected printer's error Mr. Bentham is made in the des- 

 cription to quote this number, though in the notice of localities the number 5873 

 is correctly given. 



10. Dalbergia menoeides Prain. An unarmed climber with 

 glabrous, twining, hooked branches. Leaves 5 in. long, leaflets 3, ovate 

 lanceolate tapering to both ends, dark-green and glabrous above, paler 

 and sparsely adpressed-puberulous beneath, 3-3*5 in. long, 1-1*5 in. 

 wide; rachis 15 in. long, glabrous, petiolules '08 in. puberulous. 

 Flowers very few, sessile, clustered at tips of short puberulous axillary 

 peduncles *15--25 in. long, each with two ovate bracteoles embracing 

 lower fourth of calyx-tube. Calyx campanulate, externally sparingly 



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