TRIPTOLEMEA. 47 
А shrub ога small tree with many wide-spreading diooping ‘branches, ор га ыы 
branches with occasional sharp spines; branchlets sub-bifarious, puberulous; bark white, 
sapwood yellow, heart-wood quite black, very hard. Leaves 129 Йыш ИЙ 
mode obovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, sparsely adpressed-pubescent on both 
eurfaces but especially beneath, ultimately nearly glabrous, finely reticulately veined, 775 
in. long, "45 in. wide, in young shoots occasionally 1:5 in. long, 1 in. wide; rachis 
9'5—7 in. long, and very short petiolules glabrous or faintly puberulous, Flowers small, 
subsecund, in terminal and axillary panicles, appearing rather before the leaves, 12-9 
їп. long, 15--2 in. wide; peduncles, branches and pedicels puberulous;  bracteoles 
subpersistent, basal lanceolate, the epicalycine pair emall, ovate, puberulous, embracing 
base of calyx-tube; calyx campanulate, teeth very short, obtuse except the lanceolate 
lowest equalling the tube; corolla white, petals short-clawed, standard oblong, slightly 
emarginate; stamens 9, in one sheath split along upper side or in two lateral bundles 
or occasionally in two bundles with the obvexillary stamen also free; ovary glabrcus, 
distinctly stipitate; style short; ovules 1—2. rarely 3, Pod indehiseent, ovate or shortly 
oblong, glabrous, distinctly stipitate, uniformly  wide-reticulate, 1-веейей, occasionally 
2-зеейей, rarely 3-seeded, 1— 2:75 іп, long, “б in. wide; seed reniform, much compressed, 
“б in, long, :3 in, wide. = | | 
Ispra: Malabaria; Canara, Talbot! Concan, Stocks! Cultivated at Poona! Madras, 
Caleutta!—Disrris, Africa, from Senegal (Lelievre! Heudelot!) to Ethiopia (Kotschy!), 
Abyssinia (Schimper! Plowden!) and Mozambique (Peters y 
It is necessary to remark that, so far as it goes, the description given of D. oblongifolia G. Don 
[Gen. Syst. Gard. ii. 875 (1832)] is quite applicable to this species. If the two prove to be the same, 
the name D. melanozylon must give place to Don's. Mr, Е. G. Baker, who has kindly looked into 
this matter, however, informs the writer that there is no authentio example of D. oblongifolia Don, 
in the British Museum collection, where many of Don’s types are preserved. | : : 
In India this is spoken of as “China Blackwood ;” in Africa it is termed “Senaar Ebony. 
Prate 99. Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. $ Perr.—1, Young flowering twig, from 
{һе Concan, л. s.; 2, flowering specimen from a planted shrub, Poona, m. s. Ж 4 
bud x 4; 4, calyx, laid open X 4; 5, pedicel with braeteoles x 4; 6, m ч | 
x4; 7, wings X4; 8, keel-petals x 4: 9, stamens х 4; 10, оты и Bs 
ovary, laid open X 4; 12, ovule X 10; 13, fruiting twig from a P anted shrub, 
Calcutta, n.s.; 14, pod, laid open, showing seed im situ, m. s,; 15, seed, m. s. 
= “6 ' Mimosoides.—Pod samaroid ; inflorescence axillary; flowers small ; epicalycine 
bracteoles deciduous; wing-petals subhastale ; climbers. 
"Phat the three species in this group constitute a natural aggregation of "iro legentes. 
the question indeed rather is whether they may not all be varieties s one T ds сақасын 
it seems on the whole better to hold with Franchet that two of the aem y: = is , Es in. 
necessary to separate the remaining form, which differs ees Шар j by Bentham himself 
Although in other respects Triptolemeae, and indeed D. m x ing-petals more closely approach 
referred to that section, these three forms by the single character о; т. Rr ina as h 
the Amerimna than do any of the other Sissoae. Among the $e 2% асо siden 
D. Напсі, which but for its longer standard-claw might almost be pla 
19. Davpercra Милеттп Benth, Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. жы; x ees 
= Hongkong. 92 (1862); Forbes & Hemsl, Journ. Linn. Soc. ° 
(1887); Prain Journ. Ав, Soc. Beng. lxx. 2, 57 (1901), 
