ENDESPERMUM. "3 
4, stamens X 4; 5, keel-petals x 4; 
6, fruit, laid open, showing seed in situ, m. s; 
7, Seed, m. г. 
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50. DALBERGIA DENSA Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, 217 (1813); Pl. Jungh, i. 
299 (1851); Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 1, 198 (1855); Benth. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. iv. Suppl 43 (1860); Flor. Austral. ii. 971 (1864); F. von Muell. 
Pap. Pl. (1875); Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. ix, 209 (1888); Schum. 
Flor. Kais. Wilhelmsl. 209 (1889); Warb. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiii. 329 
(1891); Bailey, Queensland Flora, 443 (1900); Schum. & Laut. Flor. Deut. 
Schutzgeb. Sueds, 359 (1901); Prain Journ. Аз. Soc. Beng. lxx. 2, 47 
(1901). 
A climbing shrub, or a small tree with weak and climbing branches; branchlets 
closely lenticelled. Leaves 6—8 in. long; leaflets 3—15, broadly oblong or oval or 
elliptic, obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, minutely thinly pubescent beneath, papery, 
775--1:5 in. rarely 9—8 in. long, ‘5—75, rarely 1'5 in. wide; rachis about 3 in. long, 
petiolules “15 in. long, glabrous or puberulous. Flowers secund or subseeund, in short 
axillary panicles 1:5—9 in. long; peduncles puberulous or pubescent; pedicels slender or 
stoutish, *1—2 in. long; basal and epicalycine bracteoles ovate, puberulous externally ; 
calyx campanulate, slightly gibbous; teeth rounded except the narrowly triangular 
lowest, shorter than the tube; corolla white, petals all long-clawed, standard reflexed, 
narrowly cucullate, emarginate at the бір; stamens 9, in one sheath split along upper 
side, filaments free in their upper fourth; ovary sparsely strigose or glabrous; style 
subulate, stigma minute; ovules 9. Pod (only seen in vam. australis) thin, glabrous, 
light-brown, long-stipitate, strap-shaped, obtuse, rather firmly coriaceous, very faintly 
reticulated opposite the 1—2 seeds; sed usually solitary, sometimes 2, narrowly 
reniform, much compressed, “5 in. long, “2 in. wide, pale-brown, 
VAR. typica: leaflets usually 7—9, occasionally 11, rarely 8—5, slightly puberulous 
beneath; young branches and panicles slightly pubescent; ovary strigosely hairy. 
Pind: Hina. “Amboina, Teysmann 5120! Jobie Island, north of New 
Guinea, Barclay! Key archipelago; Keteil at Tual, Beccari! Aru Islands; Warburg! 
New "Guinea : without exact locality, Hinds! Kaiser, Wilhelmsland, Holirung 84! 
174! 477! | š | | | 
VAR. australis: leaflets usually 11—15, rarely 9—10, considerably smaller, more 
closely: fessus beneath; young branches and panicles densely pubescent; ovary 
glabrous. x | 
AUSTRALIA: Possession Island, R. Brown! Prince of Wales Island, R. Brown! Albany 
Island, Jü! Torres Straits, Mosely! Stuarts River (von Mueller)! Queensland, 
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without exact locality (Bailey)! ' 
Тһе Stuart’s River specimens are named by Baron von Mueller, - collector’s name is given; 
the specimens from Queensland were kindly presented by Mr. F. er op ved zz е? peg 
with fruit in Herb. Calcutta. The fruit of var. typica the wri за. аа: s 
t leaflets with its strigose ovary make it necessary for 1 e presen O consider i 
and less неры the southern form. Тһе specimens from German New Guinea are, however, 
verde intermediate between those from Australia and those from the Мой. 
Ayn. Roy. Bor. Gan». CALCUTTA, Vor. X. 
