TRIPTOLEMEA, 43 
purple, globose; siyle very short, hirsute, stigma g'obose. 
indehiseent, round, subcultrate, very thin, projecting in 
submembranous; seed usually solita 
much compressed, reniform. ` | 
Pod stipitate, veined, 
the middle the margin 
ry, occasionally & second rudimentary seed present, 
PHILIPPINES z Tala, Blanco; Luzon, at Mandeloyon, Naves & Fernandez- Villar. 
This plant is known to the writer only from Blaneo's deseription, which is hero reproduced. That 
the species belongs to the section Zriptolemea is evident from the fact that the flowers are very small 
and the further fact that the style is very short. The original description unfortunately does not 
say whether the panicles are terminal or only axillary; it is not therefore clear whether, among the 
T'riptolemeae, its place be among the .Rémosae or among the Phyllanthoides. The number of leaflets, 
however, indicates that probably it is a member of the former group rather than of the latter, for none of 
the members of the Phyélanthoides group have so few leaflets as 7. The erect habit, for Blanco describes 
at as a shrub as tall as a man, is unusual in the section, but too much stress should not be laid on this 
character, since other members of both groups may climb or be erect according to circumstances. The 
character oi isodiadelphous stamens, on which the identification suggested by Naves and Fernandez Villars 
obviously depends, is not а reliable one; though characteristic, on the whole, of the section Dalbergaria 
to which D. lanceolaria belongs, it is not unknown in Triptolemea where D. Seortechinit, D. phyllanthoides 
тат. typica, and D. melanozylon casually if not constantly exhibit it. The other characters are quite 
antagonistic to the identification of the species with D. lanceolaria. It is of eourse not improbable that 
the editors of the third edition of Blanco had aecess to specimens of D. frondosa Miq. and had supposed 
that Miquel's plants so named, which are both obviously nearly related to Blanco’s one, were really D. 
frondosa Roxb. The account that Blanco gives of the pod seems to show that the species forms a link 
between the Nummwlarieae and the rest of the Triptolemeae, Blanco gives the vernacular name as Macápi. 
« 5. Phyllanthoides.—Pod samaroid ; inflorescence of axillary panicles rarely 
extending to the ends of the branches ; flowers small; epicalycine bracteoles deciducus ; climbers. 
This is apparently a quite natural group, and to the writer undoubtedly a group that shouid be 
referred to Triplolemea. It is, however, only right to point out that Bentham regarded two of the 
species of the group ав Sissoae, not Triptolemeae; D. multiflora is his D. sympathetica and D. melanorylon 
includes his D. Stocksii. The specific treatment aceorded by Bentham to the forms of this group is, 
howeyer, rather confusing, for D. melanorylon he refers to § Dalbergaria, while D. Stocksii, which is 
ihe same plant, he refers to $ Sissoa. D. phyllanthoides, when collected in Malacca, he has placed in 
D, Junghwhnii ; when collected in Borneo he has referred it to D. polyphylla. D. coromandeliana he 
has, and in this he follows Wight and Arnott, placed in Se/enolobium as а portion „of D. spincsa, 
which it does not really greatly resemble. The most doubtful of the four as to sectional position 
is D. melanoxylon, which has a rather longer standard-claw and а rather longer style than are 
proper for a Triptolemea, so that it might almost equally well be relegated to Podiopetalum, 
15, DALBERGIA MULTIFLORA Heyne ex Wall, in Cat. sub. n. 5848 (1832); Prain 
| Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxx. 2, 59 (1901). U 6 | 
D. sympathetica Nimmo іп Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 55 (1839) ; Voigt Hort. 
Suburb, Caleutt. 241 (1845); Benth. Pl. Jungh. i, 255 (1851); Journ, 
Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 42 (1860); Dalz. & Gibs, Bomb, Flor. 78 
(1861); Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii, 234 (1870); Talbot 
Bomb. List, 75 (1894); Woodr. Journ. Nat. Hist, Soc. Bomb. xi. 426 
(1897); Cooke Flor. Pres. Bomb. i. 398 (1902). 
D. frondosa Wall. Cat, 5855 partly ( ‘Tan not of qo 
D. paniculata Wall. Cat. 5848 partly (1892), not ot Кох). 7 
Р, pense Hohenack. ex Bak. in Hook. f. Flor, Brit, Ind. ñ, 294 (1876), 
not of Roxb. 
Ann, Ror. Bor, Garp. Caxcurra, You. X. 
