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1. DALBERGIA ALBERTISI Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixx. 2, 62 (1901). 
A climbing shrub, young branches terete, Leaves 9—10 in. long; leaflets 8—9 very 
dark-green, and quite glabrous above, paler and glabrous or minutely dmi: 
puberulous beneath, firmly coriaceous; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath 
secondary nerves rather numerous, ovate-acute with rounded base, terminal rather the 
largest, 2--2:25 іп, long, 1:25 in. wide; rachis 5:5—⁄6:5 in. long, and short petiolules 
glabrous. Flowers minute, secund, in ample terminal thyrsoid panicles with sparsely 
puberulous zigzag rachis 5 in. long, giving off at each angle stoutish horizontal branches 
1 in. long, dividing at their apices into 2 or more reflexed cyme-branches; bracts and 
bracteoles deciduous; calyx campanulate, teeth short obtuse; corolla and stamens not seen, 
Pod indehiscent, thin, membranous, green, suborbicular, apiculate and 1-seeded, rarely 
oblong and 2-seeded, slightly cuneate at the base, 1—1°5 in. long, ‘75 in. wide, 
distinctly stipitate, finely wide-reticulate throughout, with a firm narrow margin, finely 
lepidote-puberulous. 
Papuasia: New Guinea; Fly River, А егі! 
This species, if the genus Ecastaphy’lum be sustained, must be known as Ecastaphyllum Albertisii. 
As Bentham has, however, pointed out, Ecastaphyllum is a purely artificial group. 
PLATE 5, Dalbergia Albertisii Prain—1, Fruiting specimen from Fly River, New 
Guinea, n. s.; 2, pod, opened, showing young seed in situ, m. s.; 8, young seed x 4; 
4, young seed, in section X 4, 
2. Davsercra Beccari Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxx. 2, 64 (1901). 
Ormocarpum scandens Teysm. ex Prain Journ, As. Soc, Beng, lxx. 2, 64 (1901), 
A climbing shrub, with slender, terete, densely finely pubescent branchlets, Leaves 
sub-bifarious, 1°5—1°75 in. long; leaflets 11—17, small, close-set, oblong, slightly retuse at 
apex, dark-green above, rather paler beneath, finely pubescent on both surfaces, “4 in. 
long, '2 in. wide; rachis 1—1:5 in. long and very short petiolules puberulous; stipules 
minute, lanceolate. Flowers very minute, secund, in small cymes in the lower leaf-axils, 
`8 in. long, peduncles and short pedicels puberulous; bracts and bracteoles deciduous, 
very small, ovate; calyx campanulate, teeth small, two upper subconnate, obtuse, lateral 
acute, lowest lanceolate; corolla not seen; stamens 9, in one sheath split along upper 
side, the obvexillary filament more deeply separated than the lateral groups of 4 
each, which are free in their upper third and alternately shorter. and longer; ovary 
not seen, Pod small, irregularly ovate, apiculate, glabrous, coriaceous and js 
distinctly stipitate, pale-brown, 1-seeded, thickened and faintly reticulated dis t 2 
seed, “б in. long, “4 in. wide; seed reniform, "3 in. long, 72 im. wide, testa sh, 
somewhat shining. 
MALAYA: Borneo; Kuching, Beccari! Kapuas, Teysmann! 
This са is also an Ecastaphyllum (Е. Beccarii) for those who prefer to retain that artificial 
genus. 
Puare 6A. Dalbergia Beccarii Prain.—l, Branch ge A а: 
Kuching, Borneo, я. ».; 2, calyx, laid open and epicalycine bracteoles , 
bracteoles x 4; 4, stamens X 4; 9, seed, 2.5. 
of Dalbergia Beccarii from 
8, basel 
Axx, Ror. Bor. Garp, CALCUTTA, Vou. X. 
