PODIOPETALUM. 51 
"З in. loag, very caducous, puberulous. Flowers small, secund, in dense axill icl 
'5—'75 in. long, “3--5 in. wide; peduneles and pedicels densely ee 
scaly, clustered, enclosing the young inflorescence, soon deciduous; bracteoles deci 4 gas 
the basal minute lanceolate, the epicalycine pair ovate, obtuse, REE bon ке > 
tube, pubescent; calyx campanulate; teeth very short obtuse, pubeseeni жы 
corolla greenish-white, petals all rather long-clawed, standard orbicular dai EUN 
subreflexed, auriculate at base of blade; stamens 9, in a sheath split Mone upper eb. 
inserted with petals one-third up calyx-tube, sometimes with a free vosillary bitten: 
ovary short-stipitate, pubescent ; style rather long, stigma minute; ovules 8—4, Pod 
indehisceat, ovate lanceolate to ligulate, firmly coriaceous, glabrous, distinctly stipitate 
1—4 seeded, not very distinctly reticulated opposite the seeds, l:5—3 in. long, cog 
in. wide; szed reniform, compressed, “3 in, long, '2 in. wide. 
CHINA: Kwang-tung; Hongkong, Hance! Wilford! Weiss! Ford) Macao, Callery | 
Canton, Park! 
Park notes this as “brought in wild from near Canton, a shrubby plant, rambling, Robinia in 
appearance.’ 
Prate 26. Dalbergia Hancei Вел/й,--1, Flowering specimen, from Hongkong, n. s.; 
2, bud x 4; 8, pedicel, with epicalycine braeteoles x 4; 4, calyx, laid open x 4; 
5, standard x 4; 6, wings X 4; 7, keel-petals x 4; 8, stamens X 4; 9, ovary X 4; 
10, ovary, laid open x 4; 11, ovule X 10; 12, fruiting branch, from Hongkong, ». s.; 
13, pod, laid open, showing seed in situ, n. s.; 14, seed, m. s, 
23. DALDERGIA DYEBIANA Prain ex Harms in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 416 (1900); 
Journ, As. бос. Beng. lxx. 2, 44 (1901). | 
. A large climber, with rather slender, blackish, glabrous, spreading, sub-bifarious 
branches, sometimes hooked. - Leaves 3—5 in. long; leaflets 11—15, obovate-oblong, base 
cuneate, apex rounded retuse, thinly coriaceous, finely closely reticulate, sparsely 
adpressed-pubescent beneath, 1--1%2 in. long, ‘3—5 іп, wide; rachis 25—83 5 in. long, 
and petiolules 1 in. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Flowers in lax rather few- 
flowered axillary panicles, 2 іп, long, 1°25 іп, wide, peduncles and “pedicels, the latter 
“1 in. long, puberulous; calyx puberulous, campanulate, with oblong to. lanceolate basal 
bracteoles; teeth triangular obtuse, the two upper the widest, the lowest longer then 
the others, subacute; corolla yellowish-white, petals distinctly clawed, standard oblong, 
emarginate; stamens 9, connate in a sheath split on upper side, filaments free in their 
upper fourth, alternately shorter and longer; ovary stipitate, glabrous or puberulous; stipe 
always ‘puberulous; style always glabrous, stigma small, capitate; ovules 2—3. Рой 
indehiscent, thinly coriaceous, distinctly stipitate, linear-oblong, 1—2-seeded, 2:5—3*5 
іп. long, “5 in. wide, finely but distinctly reticulated opposite the seeds; seed oblong- 
reniform, "5 in. long, °2 in. wide, ‘15 in, thick. 
Cura: Hupeh, Henry 3137! 4132! 4138! 4561! Szechuen; near Ky-min-se, 
Farges 1076! Yunnan; Mengtze, Henry 10003! 
Farges gives the Chinese name in Szechuen as Zu-kang-kin-ten. 
Prate 97. Dalbergia Dyeriana Prain.—1, Flowering вей ag к» dp 
ñ. 5.; 9, young calyx, with. epicalycine Dracteoles X 4; 9, calyx, laid ope 
Any. Roy. Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, VoL. X. 
