CONTENTS. 
HOST QUEUE E 
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PART I.—INTRODUCTION. 
HisroricAL REVIEW or THE DELIMITATION OF THE GENUS DALBERGIA :—Linneus 
the younger, Lamarck, Roxburgh, Willdenow, Persoon, Poiret, Dennstedt, 
Roth, Blume, De Candolle, ee G. Богу. bass Nose and Walker- 
Arnott, Graham . . й 4 
SKETCH OF THE ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY THE SPECIES OF атйын ЖЖ 
THE 
adopted by Wight and Walker-Arnott in 1834; system proposed by Bentham 
in 1851 and adopted by Miquel in 1855; modifications introduced by Bentham 
in 1860; the advantages and disadvantages of Bentham’s method; modifica- 
tions of the Benthamian system in 1876 by Kurz and by Baker; system 
adopted by Taubert in 1894; review of all the preceding systems; pcs 
tion of the method of arrangement adopted in the present work . ; 
VALIDITY OF THE GENERIC NAME DALBERGIA :—Names for the genus more 
recent than the name Dalbergia; names with priority as to date cited as equiv- 
alent; Salken апа Solori not homonyms of Dalbergia; .Acouroa, Pterocarpus, 
Ecastaphylium, Amerimnon only partially synonymous; таван Ше оре 
name that covers the whole ground . . . UNE Sy 
DISTRIBUTION oF THE Авілтіс peces or DALBERGIA SO districts, — 
Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia, Ceylon, India Deserta; botanical prov- 
inces,—India, Indo-China, China, Malaya, Papuasia; botanical subareas ; 
reasons for annexing Tongking to China and for uniting the Taping Valley 
to Indo-China; Chinese subareas,—South-Western, Central and Eastern ; 
Papuasian subareas,—the Philippines, New Guinea, the Moluccas, Celebes ; 
Malayan subareas,—Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java; Indian 
subareas,—Malabaria, Coromandelia, Himalaya; reasons for subdividing the 
Himalayan region; Indo-Chinese subareas,— Western Indo-China, Central 
Indo-China, Eastern Indo-China; advantages of removing South-Western 
China from China and Western Indo-China from Indo-China, and of treating 
the two along with the Himalaya; obviously natural areas,—Eastern China, 
India with South-Western China and Indo-China, Malaya with Papuasia ; 
details of specific distribution; distribution x sections; localised and wide- 
spread species contrasted . ; ç 
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PART IL—CONSPECTUS SYSTEMATICUS. 
DALBERGIA; 
1.—Sissoa ; 
81, Triptolemea; 
41. Nummularies ; 
42. Parviflore; 
9 3. Discolor; 
44. Rimose; 
q 5. Phyllanthoides; 
41 6. Mimosoides . 
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