48 SISSOA. 
D. polyphylla Benth, Pl. Jungh, i. 256 partly (1851); Seem. Bot. Her. 375 
(1855); not of Benth. in Journ. Linn, Soc. iv. Suppl. 
Derris pinnata Lour, Flor. Cochin-Chin. 432 (1790) possibly. 
A climber, with glabrous lenticelled branches, sometimes hooked ; young branchlets 
glabrous or only very sparsely puberulous, surrounded at point of origin by scaly 
bracts. Leaves 1:5—2 in. long; leaflets 25—35, small, linear or narrowly oblong, obtuse 
or retuse, quite glabrous on both surfaces, close-set, 74 in. long; “2 in. wide; rachis 
L25—1:5 in. long, finely puberulous, petiolules glabrous; stipules ovate, deciduous. 
Flowers small, secund, in condensed axillary panicles, “5 in. long, `4 in. wide, along the 
young branchlets; peduncles, branches, and pedicels very sparsely pubescent ; bracteoles 
glabrous, ovate, basal persistent, the epicalycine pair embracing lower third of calyx-tube, 
deciduous; caljz campanulate, nearly glabrous; teeth short, subequal, obtuse except the 
acute lowest, the two upper subconnate; corolla white, petals short-clawed, standard 
orbicular, emarginate; stamens 9, in one sheath split along upper side; ovary stipitate 
sparsely pilose; style short; ovules 9—8, Рой indehiscent, firmly coriaceous, reticulated, 
and somewhat indurated opposite the solitary, rarely 2 secds, glabrous, ovate-obtuse, base 
rounded, stipitate, 2-25 in. long, ‘75 in. wide; seed reniform, compressed, *5 in. long, '25 
iu, wide, 
CHINA: Kwangtung ; Hongkong, Hance! Wilford! Ford! Champion ! 
Except for its very short almost glabrous panicles, in which character it resembles 2. Напогі, and for 
its quite glabrous leaves, there seems to be nothing to separate this species from D. mimosoides Franch., 
the pods of. {һе two being practically identical. The leaflets vary a little in width just as do those 
of D. mimcsoides, but they are smaller and narrower in D. Milletlii than they usually are in D. mimosoides. 
In a previous discussion of the species of Dalbergia, the writer attempted to identify with the 
Hongkong plart some Hupeh and Yunnan specimens. А. closer study of these, and the supply of 
fuller material of the Hongkong plant kindly communicated by Mr. Ford, show that this treatment 
18 not justified except in the wider sense in which D. Milletiii is held to include both D. mimosoides 
and D. stenophylla. Their longer panicles show that neither the Hupeh nor the Yunnan plant agrees 
with D. Mil'etéii; the former is D. stenophylla, the latter is D. mimosoides. po 
The fact that D. Millettit has glabrous leaflets renders it possible that in this species we have the 
plant described by Loureiro as Derris pinna'a (Flor. Cochin-Chin. 432) ; the absence of any definite 
account of the root, however, leaves the. point uncertain. Moreover, the species has not so far been 
collected outside Hongkong: even in the wiler view that would accept both D. stenophylla amd D 
mimosoides as forms of D. Millettii, the species has not been collected in Cochin-China, : 
The most satisfactory treatment for the moment is to transcribe Loureiro's description of 
Derris pinnata and retain that Cochin-China plant as a species of Dalbergia of doubtful identity, in 
the hope that our colleagues, the French botanists in Eastern Indo-China, may take the matter up 
and ees the identity of Loureiro’s species. ‘Ihe rhomboid base to the leaflets is the character that 
deat hd "ud ap D. tamarindifolia; if, however, the leaflets be realy glabrous that 
DALBERGIA PINNATA sp. dub. 
Derris pinnata Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin, 432 (1790). 
А climbing shrub, with long, unarmed, much-branched stem. Leaves pinnate; leaflets numerous, 
alternate, ovate-oblong with base rhomboid, smal ; 
labro | à Я 
peduncles ; corolla white. Pod 1-seeded. ; small, glabrous, entire, Flowers on many-flowered lateral 
CocHIN-CHINA: in forests. 
The fleshy reddish root i | 
„ы: кое beck a 3 used instead of, and for the same purposes as, the tetel-nut (Areca), 
y the indigenous inhabitants along with the aromatic pan-leaf (Piper Betle), 
