ENDESPERMUM. 63 
i stipitate, glabrous, style subulate; 
кеден Oa s. MM thinly coriaceous, glabrous, stipitate, ligulate, 1—2-seeded 
9 
2—3 in. long, 76 in. wide, faintly reticulated opposite the seeds; seed reniform, 
compressed, “45 in, long, “9 in, wide. | 
CHINA: Hongkong, Hance ! Wilford! Wright! Ford} Seemann! Bodinier 1 
Urquhart ! Harland ! 
upper third, alternately shorter and longer; ovary long- 
_ The opportunity of seeing the fruits of this species, collected by Bodinier and communicated by 
Ford, finally settled the impossibility of following Bentham in bis identification of it with D. rubiginosa, 
Prate 89. Dalbergia Benthami Prain.—1, Flowering branch, from Hongkong, n. s. ; 
2, bud x 4; 3, 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, 11, pods, 
from Hongkong (Bodinier), n.s.; 19, seed, n. s. 
97. DALBERGIA RUBIGINOSA Roxb. Согот. Pl. ii. 9, t. 115 (1798); Willd, Sp. FI. їй. 
2, 902 (1800); Roxb. Hort. Beng. 98 (1814); Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. 332 
(1821); DC. Prodr. ii. 416 (1825); W. & A. Prodr. i. 265 (1834); Benth. 
Pl. Jungh. i. 255 (1851); Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 43 (ref. China excl.) 
(1860); Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 232 (1876); Prain. Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2, 443 (1897); lxx. 2, 47 (1501); Cooke Flor. Pres. 
Bomb. i. 397 (1902). | 
An extensive climber, with finely puberulous branches, often twisted into thickened 
hooks, Zeaves 3—5 in. long ; leaflets usually 5, but often 3, less often 7, ovate or eliiptic- 
oblong, obtuse, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath, the distal 
the largest, -75—2-5 in. long, '5—1:25 in. wide; rachis 1—2 in. long, ‘S—1°25 in. wide, 
and petiolules, “15 іп. long, puberulous. Flowers in short axillary racemes or 
panicles, “5--75 in. long; peduncles and short pedicels, “05 in. long, rusty-tomentose ; 
basal bracteoles triangular-ovate, persistent, epicalycine bracteoles ovate, embracing lower 
fourth of calyx-tube; calyr campanulate, externally puberulous, slightly gibbous at base; 
teeth subequal, all obtuse, the two upper rather wider than the three lower; corolla white; 
petals all long-clawed, standard orbicular, emarginate, reflexed; stamens 9, in a е 
split along upper side, filaments free in their upper fourth, alternately shorier and longer; 
ovary glabrous, long-stipitate; style subulate, stigma minute; ovules 1—8, Pod indehis- 
cent, thinly coriaceous, oblong, long-stipitate, 1:25 in. long, oy іп. wide, reticulate opposite 
the seed; sced reniform, much compressed, “5 in. long, "25 in. wide. 
Inpia: N. Canara; Ainslie Ghat, Talbot!  Dodmune, 74004! Nakund, Talb.t ! 
Concan; Dalzell! Wight! Stocks! 
Prate 40. Dalbergia rubiginosa forb.—1, Flowering specimen, зар dei "d 
МЭ AP PE ке ич емел ee 7 x 4; 
open X 4; 5, standard х 4; 6, keel-petals x 4; bà жәке ч 4; a ms S 
9, ovary X 4; 10, ovary, laid open x 4; 11, fruiting twig, Пош (апага, n. 5., ) 
fruit opened, with seed in situ, n. 8.; 19, seed, m. s. 
4| 12 Mondod Pal faleate-subreniform, thickened throughout ; epicalyctne bracteoles 
obluse ; leaflets few; climbers, 
