50 SISSOA. 
25—35, small, linear-obleng, obtuse or retuse, at first pubescent at length glabrous above, 
finely but sparsely adpressed-puberulous beneath, close-set, *5 in. long, “25 in. wide; 
rachis 2—3°5 in. long and very short petiolules at first densely pubescent, at length 
only puberulous; stipules membranous, ovate, deciduous. Flowers small, secund, in axillary 
panicles along the young branchlets; peduncles, branches and pedicels pubescent ; 
bracteoles pubescent, ovate, basal persistent, the epicalycine pair embracing lower 
third of calyx-tube, deciduous; calyx campanulate, nearly glabrous; teeth short, obtuse 
except the rather longer lowest; corolla white, petals short-clawed, standard oblong- 
obovate, emarginate; s/amens 9, or occasionally 10, in one sheath split along upper 
side; ovary stipitate, sparsely pilose along the sutures or glabrous, style short; ovules 3. 
Pod indehiscent, thickly coriaceous, somewhat indurated and reticulated opposite the 
solitary, rarely 2, seeds, glabrous, ovate-acute, base rounded, stipitate, 1°5—2°5 in. 
long, ‘75 in. wide; seed reniform, compressed, *4 in. long, :25 in wide. | 
Ічоо-СнтчА: Assam; Khasia Hills, Mann! Collett! Gallaily! Clarke! CHINA: Yunnan; 
Tapintze, Delavay! Mengtze, Henry! Szechuen;  Tatchienlu, Pratt! E. HIMALAYA : 
Sikkim; Tista Valley, below Choong-thang, 5,000 ft., Prain! 
Prate 25, Dalbergia mimosoides Franch.—1, Flowering branch, from Khasia Hills, 
n. з.; 2, bud X 4; ^, calyx, laid open x 4; 4, standard x 4; 5, wings x 4; 
6, keel-petals x 4; 7, stamens X 4; 8, ovary X 4; 9, ovary, laid open x 4; 10, ovule 
x 10; 11, fruiting branch, from Khasia Hills, s. s.; 12, pod, laid open, showing seed 
in situ, n. 8:; 19, seed, m, s. | 
$ 2. FODIOPETALUM.—Flowers small or medium; epicalycine bracteoles always 
deciduous; inflorescence not distinetly cymose; claws of all petals rather long, that of 
standard about as long as the rest; style usually stout, cylindric, rarely (D. Sissoo) short, 
417. Foliaceae.—Pod samaroil, oblong or ovate; leaflets obtuse ; wings not hastate ; 
style stout, cylindric ; epicalycine bracteoles obtus:, shorter than calyx ; climbers, 
This group, though perhaps only subnatural, nevertheless exhibits a fairly regular transition, among 
species that are clearly Podiopetala and that are all of scandent habit, from the small-leaved 
D. Hancei to the large-leaved D, foliacea. Perhaps it might be more convenient to treat the group 
as comprising two subgroups, distinguished by the axillary and tlie terminal inflorescences. D. confertiflora 
among those with a termina] inflorescence is very distinct from the remaining species in foliage and in 
fruit; D. foliacea is also very distinct; D. yunnanensis and D. Colletti, on the о ет hand, are in 
essentials remarkably alike, the chief difference being that tho flowers of D. Colletti are bly 
smaller than those of D. yunnanensis, But for its rather longer standard-claw and rather longer 
style than is usual in that section, and especially but for its remarkably close affinity to D. e 
one might with almost equal propriety refer D. Collettii to Triptolemea. ; 
22, DarsERGrA Hawcrr Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 33 (1860); Flor. Hone 
i > . ә” 
kong 93 (1861); Forbes & Hemsl Journ. Linn. Soc, xxiii, 198 (1887) ; 
Prain Journ, As. Soc. Beng. Ixx. 2, 57 (1901). ; 
A woody climber, branches at times slightly hooked, егез 2—2°5 in. long: le f t 
9—11, narrow-oblong, obtuse truncate or retuse, base cuneate or rounded joke s B қ 
апа at first sparsely adpressed-pubescent but soon glabrous above, pale- green aid =ë i 
tently adpressed-pubescent beneath, “6-75 in. long, *28—*85 in. wide; rachis urgens 
in. long, and petiolules *15 in. long, quite glabrous; stipules membranous, lanceclate, 
