DALBERGIA. 31 
IIL—-DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SPECIES 
OF DALBERGIA. 
DALBERGIA try. ғ. 
AMERIMNON Р, Br. Hist, Jamaic, 988 (1756). 
Eca YLLUM P. Вг, Hist. Jamaic. 299 (1756), 
PrEROcARPUS Berg. Vet, Acad, Handl. Stockh. 116 (1769); Poiret Encyc. Meth. v, 
(1804) and Encyc, Meth. Suppl. iv. (1816) in part, not of Linn. 
Acouroa Aubl. Pl. Guian. 753 t, 301 (1775). 
DALBERGIA Linn. f, Suppl. РІ, 42 (1781). 
DRAKENSTEINIA Neck. Elem. iii. 33 (1790). 
ExpzsPERMUM Bl. Cat, Gew. Buitenz. 23 (1893), 
SEMEIONOTIS Schott Wien. Zeitschr. iii. 804 (1829). 
Hxcastopuyttum H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 387 (1831). 
Мівсоговтом Vog. Linnea xi. 900 (1837). | 
ТЕІРТОГЕМЕА Mart. Flora xx. Beibl. 122 (1837). 
Lzronosruw Benth. Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. 94 (1858). 
Poprornratum Hochst. Flora xxiv. 657 (1841). 
Drepayocarpus Kurz Pegu Rep. App. А. 49, B. 45 (1875); Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
xlv. 281 (1576); For. Flor. Burm. i. 336 (1877), not of G. W. F. Mey. 
Trees or large climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, rarely 1-foliolate ; 
stipules various, often small and usually deciduous; leaflets alternate, very rarely somo 
of them subopposite; stipels 0. Flowcrs small or very small, usually numerous, white or 
rarely purple or violet, in dichotomous cymes or in subeymose axillary or terminal 
panicles; bracts very small, often persistent; bracteoles usually very small, generally 
deciduous, Саух campanulate, 5-toothed; the lowest tooth usually the longest, the upper 
pair usually wider than the rest and often partially connate, Corolla papilionaceous; the 
standard ovate or cblong or orbicular, usually notched at the apex, its claw long or 
short; wings oblong, cuneate truncate or hastate at the base of the blade, claws usually 
long; keel-petals obtuse, always more or less connate at the apex behind, claws long, 
base of blade usually unilaterally hastate, Stamens 10 or 9, usually connate in a single 
 Sheath slit on upper side, occasionally in two lateral bundles of 5 each, sometimes with 
only 4 on each side, and the obvexillary stamen almost or quite free, very rarely 9 in 
a sheath below with a free vexillary filament; anthers small, erect, didymous, cells 
placed back to back; dehiscence by short apical, rarely by. longitudinal chinks, Зету 
stipitate; style slender or stout, long or short, usually incurved j stigma small terminal ; 
ovules few, Fruit an indehiscent lomentum, usually oblong or linear, samaroid, slightly 
rarely greatly thickened and usually reticulated opposite the median solitary or —€— 
2 or moro seeds, elsewhere flat and thin, but neither margined nor winged ; nie 
faleate and slightly or considerably thickened throughout, but not margined; very rarely 
orbicular or suborbicular and thickened throughout, slightly margined along the upper 
` suture, Sced reniform, compressed; radicle inflexed, 
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