92 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



* F. congesta (including D.'s F. procumbens.) Kacemes dense, short, 

 often fascicled, flowers streaked with purple, calyx brown silky, 

 pod 2-seeded. Daudaula, Wari jungles and Fonda Ghaut (D.). H. 

 has 4 vars., one with winged petioles, another with flowers in 

 roundish heads widely distributed. jP. tuberosa, creeping and 

 spreading, long-branched, very hairy, leaflets lanceolate, panicles 

 large, flowers few, small, lilac, pod short, enclosed in the calyx. 

 Dapoli. Mai wan districts (D.)- Rare, apparently. 



Glycine. Leaflets 3 to 7, stamens monadelphous, pod linear. 

 * G. pentaphylla, slender, twining, leaflets lanceolate, rather hairy, 

 flowers very small, reddish, in spikes or racemes, pod smooth, flat. 

 S. Konkan (D.). Teramnes, like the last, but alternate stamens 

 barren, pod linear, hooked with the style. * T. labialis (Glycine I. 

 and wareensis, D.) Nearly smooth, leaflets ovate, flowers small, 

 reddish, pod 8 to 12-seeded. D. without hab. Plains of India (H.). 

 Grona, leaves simple, pod linear, turgid. * G. dalzellii (Galactia 

 simplicifolia, D.). A. twiner, leaves ovate, flowers small, purple, in 

 dense sessile heads, with bracts, pod straight, hairy. Talawari and 

 Harichandra : known only to Dalzell and Stocks. 



(g) DALBERGIEJE. 



41. DALBERGIA. 



1. D. latifolia. The blackwood tree. Leaflets 3 to 7, 

 roundish, either with a small point or notched : flowers 

 yellowish- white, in small close panicles, pod lanceolate. 

 Sissu, Kdlaruk, tali. 



Common in the S. Konkan and S. M. country : also on the Ghauts. 



The Sissu or Shisham of N. India is a different tree, D. Sissu. It 

 may be met with cultivated in many parts, and is thought by B. to 

 be indigenous in Guzerat. 



2. D. Sympathetica. A very large climber, running over 

 trees, with strong blunt thorns, often curiously twisted, leaflets 

 11 to 15, hairy, obovate or emarginate : flowers in very dense 

 axillary panicles white and fragrant, pod oblong obtuse, short- 

 stalked. Pendkul, Titdbli, yekyel. 



3. D. volubilis. Similar to the last in habit and leaves, 

 branches round and green, panicles spreading, rather flat and 

 hairy, with numerous floral leaves, flowers pale lilac, pod 

 oblong, narrowed to a point, long-stalked. Alei, Munganvel. 



These two are found in the Konkan and Ghauts. 



There are two other climbers, * D. Stock&ii, known only from 

 Stocks's herbarium, leaflets 11 to 15, oblong, flowers in panicles large, 

 " pod quite characteristic, thin, oblong, smooth, the usually solitary 

 seed filling up the greater part." * D. monosperma, leaflets 5 to 7, 

 unarmed, with black branches, flowers white, pod brown, crescent- 

 shaped. Garudgal. HilJs in Malwan district (D.). Matherau 

 (Hirdwood). 



