36 819804, 
D. horrida Grah. in Wall Cat. 5877 (1832), not Ammerimnum horridum Dennst. 
Drepanocarpus spinosus Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2, 251 (1876); For. 
Flor. Burm, i. 87 (1877). 
A large shrub, often climbing and generally with the smaller branches converted 
into straight pungent spines, sometimes with branches twisted and hooked ; branchlets 
glabrous. Leaves 1:5—2:5 in. long, scattered or, on the spines, fascicled; leaflets 5— 9, 
ovate, obtuse or retuse, base rounded, quite glabrous, *£—':7 in, long, '25—'5 in. wide; 
rachis *6—1:5 in. long, and short petiolules glabrous. Flowers small, white, in axillary 
racemes, less often in few-branched panicles, 1—1:5 in. long; peduncles and long pedicels 
glabrous; bracteoles ovate, epicalycine pair embracing lower half of calyx-tube, very 
deciduous; calyx campanulate, glabrous, teeth ovate, obtuse except the longer lanceolate 
lowest ; corolla white, petals shortly clawed, especially the wide-obovate retuse standard ; 
stamens 10, either in 2 bundles of 5 each or less often in one sheath split on upper side; 
ovary stipitate, pilose; style short; ovules 1, rarely 2, Pod indehiscent, rigidly coriaceous, 
rather long-stipitate, glabrous, reniform, 1-, very rarely 2-seeded, 1—1°5 in. long, °6 
in, wide; seed reniform falcate, "65 in. long, *3 in. wide. | | 
Inpta: Coromandelia; S. Arcot, Gamble! Madras, Heyne! Sandribuns, Grifith! Kurz! 
Clarke! Ball! Heinig! Lase! Prain! Malabaria; Сопсап, fide Talbot, Іхоо-ОніхА: Chitta- 
gong, Roxburgh! Burma; Rangoon, Kurz! Moulmein, Wallich! РипРРїхЕЗ: Ilo-ilo; Panay, 
at Igbaras, Naves & Fernandez. Villar, 
The wood-eutters of the Sundribuns know this species as Amanta. According to Kurz, the powdered 
roots “absorb alcohol, and a spoonful of the powder in a tumblerful cf water is said to be sufficient 
to destroy in less than half an hour the effects of alcohol even in cases «bordering on delirium tremens.” 
: The record of this species from the Philippines requires verification ; that from the Concan appears 
to be a mistake. 
= Prae 9. Dalbergia spinosa Rozb.—1, Flowering branch from the Sundribuns, я. s. ; 
2, twig showing hooked branch, from the Sundribuns, z. s.; 3, bud x 4; 4, pedicel 
with bracteoles x 4; 5, calyx, laid open X 4; 6, standard x 4; 7, wings Х 4; 
8, keel-petals x 4; 9, stamens, usual arrangement x 4; 10, stamens, occasional 
arrangement X 4; 11, ovary Х 4; 12, ovary, laid open x 4; 13, ovule x 12; 
14, fruiting branch from S, Arcot, ».5.; 15, pod opened, showing seed їл situ, п. 8, ; 
16, seed, л, s. 
є 3. Discolor.— Pod samaroid ; inflorescence a terminal panicle ; a tree, 
The position of this group is somewhat doubtful. The species is no doubt a very distinct one; 
it was considered by Mr. Bentham, from Migqael’s description, to be possibly closely allied to 1). 
foliacea, ‘The writer, after having seen the type material of the Leiden Herbarium, thinks that its 
alliance is rather with D. rimosa. The point must remain unsettled till flowers are obtained; there is 
however, little doubt that it is, in the wide sense, a Sissa, and it may be looked on as favouring 
Bentham’s suggestion that this species is a tree. If it be a Triptolemea, it is the only tree-in that 
section; whereas Podiopetalum, to which D. fo'íacea belongs, has at least three erect forms—D, cultrata 
D. fusca, and D. Sissoo. d 
6. Datpercia р1ѕсогов ВІ. ex Miq. Flor, Ind, Bat. i. 1, 130 (1855); Benth 
Journ. Linn. бос, iv. Suppl. 41 (1860) ; Nav. & Fernand. Vill. Nov. App 
Flor. Philip 67 (1880); Prain. Journ. As. Soc, Beng. lxx, 2, 61 (1901), 
