56 SISSOA. 
Paratola, 2,500 ft, Таеро, 5,000 ft, and Chuku Plains, @allatly ! Trogla, near the 
hiils, Wallich 5847B! Tavoy, Shaik Muquim! Siam; Radboerie, Teysmann 6027! 
Kurz gives the Burmese name ав Yendike. 
Prate 32. Dalbergia cultrata Grak,—1, Branch in flower and young leaf, from 
Pegu, n. з.; 2, pedicel with basal and epicalycine bracteoles x 4; 3, bud x 4; 
4, calyx, laid open Xx 6; 5, standard x 6; 6, wings X 6; 7, keel-petals x 6; 
8, stamens X 6; 9, ovary X 6; 10, ovary, laid open x 6; 11, ovule x 10; 
12, fruiting branch, from Tenasserim, n. s,; 13, pod, one valve removed, showinz seed 
in silu, n. 8,; 14, seed, m. ғ. 
90, DALBERGIA rusca Pierre MSS. in Herb. Pierre. 
A tree; wood red. Leaves 4—6 in. long; leaflets 7—10, ovate, obtuse or retuse, base 
cuneate, dark-green glabrous above, finely adpressed-pubescent beneath, “75--155 in. long, 
5—75 in. wide; rachis 3'25—'45 in. long, sparsely pubescent as are the petiolules '2 in. 
long; stipules caducous. Flowers in short axillary and infra-axillary panicles, 1:5 im. 
long, "5 in. wide; pedicels “2 in. long, slender; bracts and bracteoles not seen; calyz 
campanulate, 3 lower teeth wide-triangular, acute, the lowest one-half longer than the 
lateral, 2 upper rounded subconnate; corolla white, petals rather long-clawed, standard 
not seen; stamens in one sheath split above; anthers not seen. Pod stipitate, ligulate- 
lanceolate, firmly coriaceous, narrowed to both ends but more abruptly to the apex, 
2:5—4 in. long, "біп. wide, 1-, rarely 2-seeded; seed reniform, compressed, °4 in. long, 
‘25 in. wide. 
Ixpo-Onma: Cochin China; Bienhoa, near Baochung, Pierre’s collectors! at Baochianh, 
Pierre 1706! Burma; Pinmona, King's collector? CHINA: Yunnan, Szemao Mts., 5,000 
ft, Henry 11,667! 
This is very near, perhaps too near, D. cultrata Grah; the calyx hardly differs, the wings 
and keel-petals are identical; the leaflets, however, are always distinctly smaller than in D. cultrata 
and differ markedly from those of that species in being persistently adpressed-pubescent beneath and · 
in having a less prominent midrib, The Anamite name is Cém-lai. In Yunnan it is a small to 
medium tree. 
PLATE 33. Dalbergia fusca Pierre,—1, Branch, with leaves and fruit, from 
Baochianh, n.s ; 2, calyx, laid open X 4; 3, wing-petal x 4; 4, keel-petal x 4; 
5, staminal sheath, anthers fallen x 4; 6, pod, laid open, showing young seed in 
situ, m. s. 
« 9. Sissoo.—Pod samaroid, narrow-ligulate; leaflets acuminate j; neither wings nor 
keel-petals hastate ; style very short, stout ; epicalycine bracteoles obtuse, as long as calyx; a tree. 
This group, which contains but one species, is also а very distinct one. The characters of 
the main-group Sissoa are in the solitary member, D, Sissoo, shown in their most emphatic form since 
neither the wings nor the keel-petals are hastate and the standard, though quite large, is not thrown 
backward as in the Amerimna. But while the long standard-claw marks it as a typical Podiopetajum 
it shares with the Triptolemeae the short style, while it at the same time shares with the group Lati- 
Joliae—which in all other respects are very different and are quite typical members of the section 
Miscolovium among the Amerimna—the character of possessing very large caducous epicalycine braoteoles 
that, till they fall, quite envelope the calyx. 
