66 AMERIMNON. 
which is convenient. On the other hand, though the number and size of the ieaftets be different, 
D. Gardneriana and D, malabarica are very closely related in every essential character. It is to Beddome 
that the suggestion that D. malabarica is a distinct species is originally due, as a specimen in the 
Kew collection testifies; that specimen, however, has no fruits, so that Oliver and Baker, who have 
dealt with it, did not feel justified in giving it the specific rank proposed by Beddome. Fuller 
material now amply proves the justice of Beddome’s original opinion, and demonstrates that while 
D. malabarica no doubt forms a connecting link between the Congestae and the Polyphyllae, it is to the 
former rather than to the latter group that it is most nearly allied. А recently discovered = 
species, D. Hoseana, веешз to serve as a further connecting link between the two groups. 
40, DALDERGIA CONGESTA Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5872 (1832); W. & А, Prodr. i. 
205 (1834); Benth. РІ, Jungh. i. 255 (1851); Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 
43 (1860); Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit Ind. ii, 232, syn. D. Gardnertana 
excl. (1876); Ргаїп Joven, As. Soc, Beng. lxx. 2, 47 (1901). 
A strong climber or ап erect shrub with widesprésdiug branches, sometimes а 
tree up to. 30 feet high; young branches pubescent, Leaves 8—8 in. long; leaflots 
5--11, cuneate-ovate, apex emarginate, thinly coriaceous, sparscly adpressed-pubescent 
on both surfaces, the distal rather the largest, *'75—1 75 in. long, '4—1 in. wide; 
rachis 2—3 іп. long, pubescent as are the short petiolules, Flowers in congested or 
open axillary panicles “5—9 іп. long, '3—1:5 in. wide; branches and short pedicels 
rusty-pubescent; basal bracteoles ovate, epicalycine  bracteoles ovate- -acute, embracing 
lower third of calyx-tube,—all  rusty-pubescent; «40/2 campanulate, glabrescent, 
slightly gibbous at base; teeth subobtuse subequal except the lowest longer and 
acute, the upper two subconnate; corolla white, petals long-clawed, standard orbicular, 
emarginate, reflexed; s/amens 9, in a sheath split along upper side, filaments free in 
their upper fourth, alternately shorter and longer; ovary glabrous, stipitate; style sub- 
ulate, stigma minute; ovules 2. Pod indehiscent, firmly coriaceous, ovate, shortly 
stipitate, glabrous, much reticulated opposite the solitary seed, 2 in, long, '8 іп, 
wide; sed reniform, compressed, not seen mature, 
Ispra: Nilgiris; Coonoor, Noton! Gamble! Branadis| Praint Ixpo-Cmnma: Burma; 
Chin Hills, Prager! 
Prate 43. Dalbergia congesta (ғай. —1, Flowering branch, from Coonoor, 1. г. ; 
2, bud x 4; 3, pedicel with basal and epicalycine bracteoles x 6; 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 
Chin Hills, n. ғ.; 13, pod, opened, showing young seed in situ, m, s, 
41. DALBERGIA GARDNERIANA Benth. Journ. Linn, Soc. iv. Suppl. 42 (1800); 
Prain Journ. As. бос. Beng. lxvi. 2, 444 (1897); lxx. 2, 47 (1901). 
D. congesta Bak. in Hook. f. Flor, Brit. Ind. ii, 232 in part (1876), not of 
Benth. 
A climber, with densely rusty-tomentose branches. Leaves 2:75—9'5 іп, long; 
leaflets 7—11, oblong-elliptic, obtuse or retuse, coriaceous, glabrous above, densely rusty- 
tomentose beneath,—all subequal, 1 in. long, *6 in. wide; rachis 2—2'5 іп, long, densely 
rusty-tomentose as are the short petiolules, Flowers in short, sessile, axillary cymes, 
