68 AMERIMNON, 
A shrubby climber, with densely rusty-pubescent young branches. Leaves 3:5 —4 
in. long; leaflets 21—31, thinly pubescent above, densely tomentose beneath, crowded, 
elliptic-oblong, hardly or not oblique at the base, •5 in. long, "25 in. wide, moderately 
firm; rachis 28—35 in. long, densely pubescent, as are the very short petiolules ; 
stipules lanceolate, rusty-pubescent. Flowers appearing with the leaves, in densely- 
congested sessile axillary corymbs, *5 in. long, °25 in. wide; peduncles densely pubescent, 
pedicels glabrous; basal  braeteoles triangular-ovate, persistent, epicalycine bracteoles 
ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, persistent, pubescent; са/у2 campanulate, glabrous except on 
margins of teeth, which are nearly as long as tube, the 3 lower acute, the 2 upper 
connate, obtuse; corolla white, "85 in. long, petals all long-clawed, standard ovate, entire, 
reflexed ; stamens 9, іп one sheath split along upper side, filaments free in ‘their upper 
third; ovary glabrous except along upper suture ; stipe long, pubescent; style filiform, 
stigma minute; ovules 2, Pod indehiscent, ovate-oblong, very thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 
long-stipitate, 1:25 in. long, “6 in. wide, distinctly reticulately veined, especially 
opposite the seed. 
Ispra: Сопсап; Stocks! Canara, Talbot 408! 3665! Quilon, Wight! S. Tinivelly, 
Be lome ! 
Prate 46. Dalbergia malabarica Prain.—1, Flowering branch from Siddapore, N. 
Canara, ».5.; 2, epicalycine bracteoles x 4; 3, calyx, laid open x 4; 4, standard x 4; 
9, wings X 4; 6, keel-petals x 4; 7, stamens x 4 ; 8, ovary X 4; 9, ovary, laid 
open X 4; 10, fruiting twig, from Halihal, N. Canara, ».5.; 11, young seed, z. s. 
q 14. Polyphyllae.—Pod ligulate, samaroid, with parall^l sides ; epicalycine bracteoles 
obtuse ; leaflets small to medium, rarely larg2, usually many ; climbers, rarely small trees. 
A very natural group forming the core, so to speak, of the section Endespermum, recognized by 
Blume, but by few subsequent authors, as a distinct genus. While fairly uniform in general habit, 
one of the species, D. densa, in certain localities developes larger and at the same time fewer leaflets 
than usual, and so brings the group into contact with the Rubiginosac and Rostratae at one extremity 
of the series of species it includes, much as D. acaciacfolia or D, polyphylla approach D. malabarica 
and the Congestae generally at the other extremity. 
44. DALBERGIA ACACLEFO;IA Dalz. in Kew Journ. ii. 37 (1850); Benth. Pl. Jungh. 
i 256 (1851). x 
D. tamarindifolia Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl 44 in part (1860), not of 
Roxburgh. | 
D. tamarindifolia YAR, acaciaefoiia Bak. in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 235 
(1876); Cooke Flor. Bomb. Pres. 1. 399 (1902). 
А shrubby climber, or a. tree with weak spreading branches; branchlets finely 
puberulous. Leaves 5—6 in. long; leaflets 41—51, quite glabrous, dark-green above, 
glaucescent, finely adpressed-pubescent beneath, crowded, linear-oblong, base and midrib 
oblique, apex retuse, firmly coriaceous, caducous, *6 in. long, ‘2 in. wide; rachis 4:5—5:5 
in. long, puberulous; petiolules puberulous, very short. Flowers with the leaves, in rather 
Jax axillary panicles with corymbose branches, 1—2 іп, long, 1 in. wide, peduncles, 
branches and pedicels finely puberulous; epicalycine bracts rather large, ovate, embracing 
lower third of calyx-tube; calyx campanulate, slightly gibbous, rusty-pubescent externally ; 
teeth shorter than tube, all obtuse, the two upper subconnate; corolla white, petals 
