232 xlvii. § PAPILIONACE^; (baker). [Dalbergia. 



Leaves compound. 



Flowers in copious terminal as well as axillary panicles. 



An erect bush, with strong spines 5. D. melanoxylon. 



Unarmed climbers. 



Branches glabrous ; leaflets 9-11. 



Leaflets obovate-oblong, blunt, often retuse . . . 6. D. saxatilis. 

 Leaflets ovate, narrowed from the middle to an acute 



point 7. D. bracteolata. 



Branches pubescent; leaflets 11-21 8. D. pubescens. 



Flowers in congested axillary panicles. 



Leaflets 15-19, glabrous 9. D. Afzelii. 



Leaflets 11-13, velvety beneath 10. D. nitidula. 



Leaflets 5-7. 



Leaflets glabrous beneath 11. D. Bakeri. 



Leaflets velvety beneath 12. D. macrosperma. 



1. D. hostilis, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 33. A wide - 

 climbing- or occasionally erect bush with ~a complanate woody trunk 

 half a foot broad by an inch thick with strong spines in stellate clusters. 

 Branches woody, glabrous, thickly armed with spines J— 1 in. long-. 

 Petiole under an inch long ; leaves 3-4 in. long with 15-19 early 

 deciduous glabrous obovate-oblong leaflets 9-15 lines long, opaque on 

 both sides, glaucous below, on petiolules a line long. Flowers in irre- 

 gular elongated terminal thyrsoid panicles with dense cymose branches 

 glabrous below. Branchlets finely grey-velvet y. Pedicels almost ob- 

 solete. Calyx campanulate, f line deep, with deltoid teeth. Corolla 

 whitish, inconspicuous, twice the calyx. Stamens in a single bundle. 

 Pod 1-2-seeded, membranous, 2-3 in. long, J in. broad, not reticulated 

 against the seeds, narrowed to both ends, below to a very slender pedi- 

 cel 3—4 lines long. 



Upper Guinea. Abeokuta, Dr. Irving! 

 Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 



2. D. multijuga, E. Meyer, Comm. 153. A low bush with woody 

 unarmed finely velvety branchlets. Petioles 6-9 lines long ; leaves 

 4-5 in. long, with 21-33 oblong leaflets, J— § in. long by about half as 

 broad, shortly pointed, densely velvety below when young, on very 

 short petiolules. Flowers in copious sessile axillary panicles or racemes 

 shorter than the leaves. Pedicels ferruginous, 1J-2 lines long. Calyx 

 obconical, 2 lines deep, thinly velvety, the deltoid teeth reaching a 

 third of the way down. Corolla bright orange, half as long again as 

 the calyx, the keel and wings both rather shorter than the standard, 

 the claws much shorter than the calyx. Ovary linear, silky, long- 

 stalked. Pod (of Natal plant) 2 in. long, 8-9 lines broad, narrowed to 

 both ends. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Kirk ! Dr. Heller ! 



Also Natal. 



3. D. arbutifolia, Baker Branches woody, not spinose, the young 

 ones clothed with fine ferruginous pubescence. Petioles firm, under an 

 inch long, pubescent like the branches ; rachis 3-4 in. long ; leaflets 

 11-13, oblong, 1^ in. long, both ends rounded, the edges decurved,' 



