34 SISSOA. 
42. Parviflorae.—Pod  falcate-subreniform, thickened throughout, той margined ; 
climbers. 
Like the preceding, this is anything but a natural group. The first two species, which are abundantly 
distinct, were treated by Bentham as varieties of one. Bentham had no pods of either: he did not 
observe that the second species of the group is identical with D. parviflora, which he kept up tentatively 
as distinct; and still more remarkably, in spite of the fact that Roxburgh’s description of D. parvifiora, 
meagre though it be, indicates that D. parviflora cannot possibly be anything but a Selenolobium, 
Bentham has referred these to his $ Zriptolemea. That in this Bentham was right the writer is assured, 
but the action does not conform exactly with the scheme of classification that is being given effect to 
{з Journ, Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl Even yet the pod of D. Cumingiana is unknown, and it may well 
prove ultimately to be, as Bentham's note suggests, nearly related to D. rimosa, though it certainly 
is not a variety of that species. D. parviflora is, but for its pod, also one of the Rimosae group? 
D, spinosa, on the other hand, is, but for its pod, rather one of the Phyllanthoides group. 
3, DALBERGIA CUMINGIANA Benth, Pl. Jungh. i. 255 (1851); Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 
1, 129 (1855); Nav. & Fernand. ҮШ, Nov. App. Flor. Philip. 67 (1880); 
Vidal Phan. Cum. Philip. 42 (1885); Plant. Vase. Filip. 111 (1886). 
D. Cumingii Benth, Journ, Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl 32 var. typica only 
(1860). 
Dalbergia sp, Vidal Plant. Vasc. Filip. 112 in part (1886), 
A woody climber with lenticelled branches and puberulous branchlets. Leaves 
8:5—4 in, long; leaflets 7—9, ovate, apex obtuse emarginate, base cuneate or rounded, 
glabrous above, uniformly adpressed-pubescent beneath, finely reticulate-veined, *75—1-75 
in. long, *4—1 in. wide; rachis 2—2:5 in. long, puberulous as are the short petiolules. 
Flowers minute, secund, in terminal thyrsoid panicles extending into the axils of 
the upper leaves, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide; rachis, branches and pedicels puberulous; 
bracteoles ovate, persistent; calyz campanulate, teeth obtuse or subacute, the lowest 
somewhat the longest; corolla white, petals short-clawed, standard wide-ovate, slightly 
emarginate ; stamens 10, in one sheath split along upper side; ovary glabrous, style short; 
ovules usually 2, Pod not seen ripe, when young resembling that of D. parviflora, : 
PHILIPPINES: Luzon; Albay, Cuming! Iriga, Vidal! Pili, Vidal! Catarman: 
Samar, Vidal! | | 
Аз ripe fruit of this is not yet known, it is uncertain whether it has & Selenolobium pod. 
PLATE 7. Dalbergia Cumingiana Penth—1, Flowering branch from Albay, Luzon 
“Ажы т, ее ; 2, calyx, laid open x 4; 3, standard x 4; 4, igs x 4: 
eel-petals X 4; 6, stamens X 4; 7, o Ing i i 
gia гея ; 0, ; 7, ovary, developing into fruit, m. 5; 8, the 
4. СЕ: PARVIFLORA Roxb. Hort. Beng. 98 (1814); Flor. Ind. iii 2925 
Seed Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 1, 139 (1855); Benth, Yau Xi 
du w ms 33 (1860); Prain Journ. As. бос, Deng. lxvi. 9 MA ds 
part (1897); Ex. 2, 63 (1901); Весо, Nelle Forse di о” 
2325 - ; (1901); Весе, Nelle Foresto di Borneo 358, 591, 
D. parcylora Benth, Pl. Jungh, i. 255 (1851). 
D. corymbifera Bl. ex Miq. Flor, Ind. Bat. i. 1, 180 (1855) 
