Dalbergia.] leguminos^e. 93 



Stamens 10 or sometimes 9. Ovules 3. Pod usually 1 -seeded, 1^ to 2 in. 

 long, 7 to 8 lines broad, hardened and wrinkled in the centre about the seed. 

 — D. polyphylla, Benth. PL Jungh. i. 256 (in part) ; Seem. Bot. Her. 375. 



Frequent in Hongkong, Champion, Hance, Wright, Wilford. Also S. China, Millett. 



2. D. rubiginosa, Roxb. PL Corom. ii. 9, t. 115. A woody climber. 

 Leaflets 5 to 7, ovate or oblong-elliptical, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, coriaceous, 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent underneath. Flowers about 3 lines long, in 

 short axillary panicles, the pedicels about 1 line long. Calyx covered with a 

 rusty down, the teeth obtuse and nearly equal. Claws of the petals about as 

 long as the calyx. Stamens 9. Ovary glabrous with 2 or 3 ovules. Style 

 subulate. Bipe pod unknown to me. 



Hongkong, Harland, Hance, Wright, Wilford. Also in the Indian Peninsula, but not 

 known as yet from any intermediate station. 



3. D. Hancei, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 44. A woody 

 climber. Leaflets 9 or 11, narrow-oblong, obtuse, 6 to 9 lines long, the 

 young ones hairy underneath, at length glabrous. "Flowers about 3 lines long, 

 in short dense axillary panicles, the racemes composing it enclosed, when 

 young, in concave imbricate scales, and more or less pubescent. Pedicels 

 scarcely ^ line long. Calyx broad, with very short broad obtuse teeth. Pe- 

 tals on long claws. Ovary glabrous. Pod usually 1-seeded, 1^ in. long, 4 

 lines broad, narrowed below into a long stalk, scarcely hardened round the 

 seed. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wilford. Not known from elsewhere. 



4. D. monosperma, Dalz. ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 48. 

 A woody climber. Leaflets 5, obovate or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, rather 

 Arm, 1 in. long or rather less, glabrous or minutely pubescent underneath. 

 Flowers 3 to 4 lines long, in short axillary racemes, or few-branched cymes, 

 the pedicels scarcely ^ line long. Calyx broad, with very short broad obtuse 

 teeth. Petals on long claws. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Ovary glabrous, 

 with 2 ovules. Pod shortly stalked, falcate or semicircular, 1 in. long by 6 

 in. broad in the middle, rather thick, smooth, 1-seeded. 



Hongkong, Hance. In the Indian and Malayan Peninsulas, in Silhet, S. China, and the 

 Philippines. 



25. DERRIS, Lour. 



Calyx campanulate, truncate, or very shortly 4- or 5 -toothed. Wings slightly 

 adhering to the keel-petals, which scarcely cohere to each other at the top. 

 Upper stamen free at the base, but usually cohering with the others in the 

 middle. Anthers versatile. Ovary with 2 or more ovules. Pod flat, varying 

 from nearly orbicular to linear, thin or thick, the upper or both edges marked 

 with a narrow wing. Seeds 1 or more, flat. — Woody climbers, or very rarely 

 trees. Leaves pinnate, the leaflets opposite, with a terminal odd one, without 

 stipellse. Bacemes simple, with the pedicels clustered 2 or more together, 

 or irregularly branched into panicles. Flowers violet-purple or white, never 

 yellow. 



A considerable genus, chiefly dispersed over tropical Asia, with a very few tropical Ameri- 

 can speeies. 



