TRIPTOLEMEA. 27 
A tree? with glabrous lenticelled branches, eaves 3—7 іп, long; leaflets 5—9, the 
distal usually largest obovate, the lateral ovate or occasionally orbicular, rounded or 
narrowed at apex, emarginate, glabrous above, rusty ad pressed -pubescent beneath, 
75--%5 in. long, *75—1-75 in. wide, chartaceous, finely reticulate; rachis 25—45 in. 
long and short petiolules pubescent. Flowers minute, subsecund, in dichotomously cymose 
terminal panicles, 9:5--4 іп, long, 1:5—2 in. wide; bracteoles subpersistent ; calyx 
campanulate, teeth all obtuse, subequal, short; corolla not seen; stamens 9, in one sheath 
split along upper side; ovary not seen young. Pod coriaceous, distinctly stipitate, oblong, 
subacute, glabrous, veined opposite the solitary or occasionally two seeds, 1°5—2°75 im. 
long, ‘75 in. wide; seed reniform, compressed, “4 in, long, ‘2 in. wide, testa brown, 
shining. 
Maraya: Borneo; S. Coast, Korthals! Celebes; Teysmann! PHILIPPINES: 
Naves ¥ Fernandez- Viilar, 
This species is not very perfectly known, and only three specimens have been examined. Two 
of the specimens belong to the Leiden Herbarium. One of these, marked “ Borneo, Korthals legit,” 
has been written up by Miquel “ Daliergia discolor ВІ. Miq."; it is the type of the species and 
from it fig. 1 of Plate 10 is taken, Тһе other is written up “ Dalbergia discolor Bl. vam. pallens 
M."; it is marked simply “Borneo.” Apparently Miquel never published this variety * pallens," and, 
as & matter of fact, it does not seem necessary to consider it varietally distinct. Its tomentum and 
venation are exactly as in Korthals’ plant, and the different shape of the leaflets cannot be held of 
sufficient significance to justify its treatment as a variety. This Bornean plant without 8 record as 
to locality or collector is figured as fig. 2 of Plate 10. In Herb. Hort. Ворог. is а specimen. from 
Celebes (Teysmann 12539), which appears to me to be precisely the same as the Bornean D. discolor. 
The species is also reported from Luzon in the Philippines by the Rev. Fathers Naves and Fernandez- 
Villar, а by no means improbable distribution, which it will however, be well for subsequent workers 
to verify. ^ 
Luzon, 
From the shrivelled remains of two flowers on the smaller figured specimen, it can be seem that ihe 
stamens are monadelphous and that the calyx is almost exactly like that of D. rimosa, near which 
species it seems best to place D. discolor. 
Рілтв 10. Dalbergia discolor B/.—1, Branch in fruit from Borneo, n. s.; 2, branch 
in fruit of the form termed van. pallens by Miquel, from Borneo, л. 8.; 3, two-seeded 
pod, opened to show one seed іл situ, m. 8. 
€ 4. Rimosae.—Pod samaroid ; inflorescence а terminal panicle, sometimes extending 
into the highest leaf-axils ; flowers minute; epicalycine bracteoles persistent or subpersisteni ; 
climbers. = 
А subnatural group. D. rimosa and D. Forbesii, though differing in pods, are very closely allied ; 
D. Thomsoni stands somewhat apart, and in facies closely resembles D. confertiflora among the Foliaceae ; 
D. Junghuhnii, D. Scortechinii, D. Curtisii and D. stercoracea are again closely allied to each other апд 
are rather divergent alike from D. Thomsoni and D. rimosa. The four species — approach 
preity closely to the Phyllanthoides; and indeed with regard to the members of this subgroup and 
their relationship to D. phyllanthoides, the most extraordinary confusion has prevailed both in Herbaria 
and in literature. For this confusion it must be frankly admitted that Bentham, Miquel, Baker 
and the writer have been equally blameworthy; nor would the UOS ж һауе made been "eme 
had we attended, as we ought, more carefully to Blume’s judicious sorting and to ved 8 care : 
field-notes. The last species included in this group Rimosae, D. сіздің; from the Philippines, is one ó 
which the writer has seen no specimen; while it is evident, from Blanco’s on the whole clear description, 
that the species is a Zripfolemea, and is either спе of the Rimosae or one of the Phyllanthoides, it is 
nct absclutely certain to which of the two groups it belongs, 
