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An unarmed littoral climber, with twining glabrescent branches, often twisted into 
spiral hooks. Leaves 3 in. long; leaflets 9, very rarely 3 or 7, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
sometimes emarginate, dark-green glabrous above, paler, sparingly adpressed-pubescent 
beneath, “6—8 in. lorg, '4—:6 in. wide; rachis 9 in. long, glabrous; petiolules “1 in. 
long, glabrous. Flowers in sessile congested axillary panicles, 1—9 іп. long, with very 
slightly puberulous branches; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate; bracteoles at base of pedicels 
ovate-lanceolate, the epicalyeine pair larger ovate, embracing lower third of calyx-tube; 
calyx wide-campanulate, glabrescent; teeth short, wide-triangular, obtuse, the two upper 
subconnate; corolla white, petals all long-clawed, standard oblong, reflexed; stamens 9 
or sometimes 10, in one sheath split along upper side, filaments free in their upper 
third; ovary stipitate, glabrous; style subulate, stigma minute; ovules usually solitary, 
sometimes 2. Pod indehiscent flat, brown, faleately recurved along upper suture, 
rather thick-walled throughout, usually 1-seeded, very rarely 2-seeded, shortly stipitate, 
'9 in. long or, when 2-seeded, 1°5 in. long, “5 in. wide; seed reniform, compressed, 
‘4 in. long, :2 in. wide. 
MICRONESIA: Carolines, Volkens. MELANESIA: Tonga; Vavau, Croolz! Fiji; Viti, 
Seemann 128! New Caledonia; Pancher! Deplanche! Veillard! New GUINEA: Forbes! 
AUSTRALIA: Queensland; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy! Cape York, Damel! Northern 
Territory; Port Darwin, Schultz 744! PHILIPPINES; Luzon, Batangos, Cuming! Vidal! 
Manila, Cuming! По-По; Panay, at Igbaras, Naves & Fernandez-Villar. MALAYA: Moluccas; 
Amboina, Forster! Ceram Laut, Forster! Warburg! Celebes; Lepo-Lepo near Kandari, 
Beccari! Borneo; Sarawak, Beccari! Igau, Beccari! Bintulu, Haviland! Biliton; Blimbong, 
Teysmann! Sumatra; Indrapara, Korthals! Miller! Singapore; Wallich! Kurz! Anderson! 
Ridley! Wichura! Malacca; Ridley! Perak; Scortechini! Wray! Penang; Wallich! Curtis! 
Langkawi; Curtis! CHINA: Hongkong, Hance! Little Hongkong, Ford! Іхро-Оніма: 
Tongking, Balansa! Annam;  Haton, Godefroy! Cambodia; near Saigon, Lefevre! 
Tenasserim ; Mergui, б” ИА! Amherst, Falconer! Martaban, Wallich! Andamans ; 
Nareondam, Prain! S. Andaman, Man! Heinig! IxDıa: Sundribuns, Clarke! Heinig ! 
Prain! Ceylon;  Pandure, ‘lrincomali, and Kodiyar, Thwaites! Trimen! Malabar; 
Candenate, Rheede; Quilon, Wight! Concan; Stocks! Law! 
This is known to the wood-cutters of the Sundribans as Panchioli; the Annamese name is 
Cayme-mik; the Cambodian is Bat-tuk. 
Ртлте 42, Dalbergia torta 6ға).-1, Flowering branch, from 8. Andaman, 2. s. ; 
2, flower X 4; 8, epicalycine bracteoles 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 Х 4; 10, ovary, 
laid open X 4; 11, ovule х 6; 12, twig, showing hooked branches, from Martaban, 
п.8.; 18, branch with fruit, from the Sundribuns, л, s.; 14, pod, laid open, showing 
seed, in situ, n. 8,; 15, seed, m. s. 
q 13. Congestae.— Рой ovate, samaroid ; epicalycine bractevles obtuse; leaflets ти dium 
to small, few or many; climbers, 
A fairly natural group because, though their leaflets are of different shape and their pods are some- 
what dissimilar, the general habit of D. congesta and D. Gardneriana is the same; indeed, the two 
species have so much in common that an author so careful as Mr. Baker has suggested their 
union. An examination of the figures of the two will, however, show that this is not a proposal 
Axx. Roy, Вот. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor. X. 
