Dalbergia 



LEGUMINOS^ 



77 



/. 31, f. 3. A. Brownei Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 27 (1760), Sel 

 Stirp. Amer. 199 & Ed. pict. 97, t. 263,/. 86; Sio. Prodr. 104 & 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 1234; Mac/. Jam. i. 300. (Fig. 23.) 



Brotonel BroiigMon\ Shakspearl Macfadyen\ Distinl Cuming I Wilsonl 

 WuUschlaegel ; Marchl Hope, J. P. 1004, Morris \ between Bath and Port 

 'MoT&nt, Fatvcett & Harris \ Rock Fort, Campbell \ Port Morant, Lucea, 

 Hitchcock; near Port Antonio, MdcDmcgall Greenland, Mrs. Britton, 

 2900 ! — Florida Keys, Cuba, Hispaniola, central and northern S. America. 



A shrubby tree, 7-10 ft. high, with branches sometimes twining. Leaflets, 

 4-7 cm. 1. Flowers numerous, white, fragrant ; panicles contracted, short, 

 somewhat corymbose. Calyx 4-5 mm. 1., sparingly pubescent-tomentose 



Fig. IZ.— Dalbergia Brownei Urb. 



A, Portion of flowering branch x 5. D, Stamens x 5. 



B, Calyx x 3. E, F, Pods x h 



C, Standard X 5. G, Pod of D. Eeastaphyllum Taub. x §. 



or glabrate, 2 upper segments obtuse, lateral triangular, shorter than upper 

 and lower, lower longest, lanceolate, appearing to be awl-shaped from the 

 margins rolled inwards. Standard obcordate-obovate nearly 1 cm. 1. ; 

 wings oblong, nearly as long as the standard ; keel-petals united at obtuse 

 apex, much shorter than the wings, 5-5 mm. 1. Stamens 10, sheath split 

 above or below, or both, uppermost stamens more or less free. Pod some- 

 times 1-seeded, 1*3-2 cm. 1., sometimes 3-4-seeded, 3- 5-5 cm. 1., about 

 1 cm. br. 



2, D. Eeastaphyllum Tauh. in Engl.-Prantl Pfizfam. Hi. 

 pt. 3, 335 (1894) (as ecastophyllum) ; leaflets solitary, elliptical, 

 shortly acuminate, puberulous beneath, densely so in young 

 leaflets ; stalk of ovary longer than the calyx ; pod oblique, 

 roundish, puberulous, 1-seeded. — Urb. torn. cit. 294 (as D. hecasto- 



