Dalberyia.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 381 



Stamens usually moiiadelphous, 9 or 10 ; trees : 



Flowers in corymbose panicles fascicled on old wood below the 

 upper leaves or in the axils of older] leaves ; leaflets orbicular, 

 obtuse or emarginate, curved to the petiole at base ; pod usually 

 obtuse at apex with a minute apicule, *7 in. broad ; young 



leaves green , 11 . latifolia. 



Flowers in loose single panicles terminal or axillary to leaves 

 of new shoots ; leaflets obovate acute, rarely suborbicular or 

 obtuse, more or less cuneate at base ; pod acute at apex with 

 a longish apicule, '5 in. broad ; young leaves yellowish 



12. sissoides. 

 Stamens isodiadelphous, 5 and 5 : 



Standard narrow, obovate-oblong, slightly auricled at base with 

 a rather long claw and not thickened above it ; flowers in 

 dense panicles ; leaflets 9-13, elliptic, retuse, nerves not promi- 

 nent; pod short-stipitate, coriaceous, narrowed at both ends, 



1-2-seeded ; tree 13. paniculata. 



Standard broad, obovate, thickened above the very short 

 claw : 



Tree; leaflets 7-11, ovate-oblong, rarely suborbicular, nerves 

 usually prominent ; flowers in loose panicles ; pod long- 

 stipitate, oblong, tapering to both ends, 1-3-seeded 



14. lanceolaria. 



Climbing shrub ; leaflets 11-13, obovate- or ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, mucronulate, nerves fairly prominent ; pod short- 

 stipitate, oblong, obtuse at apex, 1- rarely 2-seeded 



lo. volubilis. 



1. DALBERGIA SPINOSA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 238; Prain Ann. 

 Calc. x. 35, t. 9. 



Coast forests of S. Arcot (Wooldridge) ; Tnticorin (Wight). 

 A stiff, often climbing shrub with whitish small flowers. 

 Bark blackish -grey, rough; wood in alternate layers of 

 wood and bark tissue. 



2. DALBERGIA MULTIFLORA, Heyne; Prain Ann. Calc. x. t. 18. 

 D. sympathetica, Nimmo ; F. B. I. ii. 234. 



W. Ghats, lower hills from S. Canara to Travancore and 



Tinnevelly. 



A large climbing shrub, often with curiously twisted 



branches bearing spines ; flowers white ; leaflets pubescent 



or glabrous. 



