89 AMERIMNON, 
"25 in. long. Flowers distinctly’ podicelled, in large terminal panicles with or without 
а few lateral in the axils of upper leaves of the same season; pedicels *15—9 in. 
long; calyx campanulate, when young slightly puberulous and enclosed in two large 
very caducous membranous bracteoles; 5-toothed, the two upper teeth subconnate, the 
three lower subequal, oblong, obtuse or subacute, as long as the tube; corolla white, 
petals all distinctly clawed, standard-limb entire with жауу margin; stamens 9 or less 
often 10, in one bundle split along upper side; filaments free in their upper third, 
elternately somewhat shorter and longer; ovary glabrous, rather long-stipitate ; style 
slender, stigma small; ovules usually 4. Рой indehiscent, 1—3-, rarely 4-seeded, 
very distinctly veined opposite the seeds, 2—3°%5 in, long, “5 іп. wide, firmly 
coriaceous, gradually cuneate towards both style and stipe; seed much compressed, 
reniform, pale-brown, smooth but hardly shining, *35 in. long, "2 іп, wide. 
MALABARIA: Travancore, 200 feet elev., Bourdillon 535! Nilgiris, at Segur, Clarke 
11,700! Wight: 931! Pulneys; at Kodaikanal Ghat, Bourne 139 R! MALAYA : Java; 
Madioen, Kediri, etc., Meijer! Horsfield | Koorders ! 
This species is very nearly related to D. Jatifolia, and may indeed be only a form of that 
tree; the distinctions, however, seem constant so far as India is concerned, and the woodcutters 
of Southern India are said to distinguish the two by their habit and their timber, and to give 
them different names. The two trees do not, as Gamble suggests (Manual of Indian Timbers, 
Ed. 2, 252), differ greatly as regards floral structure; the chief difference is as regards the 
position of the inflorescence. Both this and D. Jatifolia are reported from the N ilgiris, but these 
hills appear to be the northernmost limit of D. sissoides, arid in the Pulneys, where Dr. A. G 
Bourne has kindly looked into the matter at the writer’s request, only one species or variety 
of Blackwood isto be found, for all Dr. Bourne’s specimens are referable to D. sissvides, none to 
D. latifolia. From Travancore too only D. sissoides has been sent to Calcutta, though both trees are 
stated to occur there. The Java tree, which is certainly D. javanica Miq., has been referred 
by  Koorders and Valeton, extremely careful observers who know the tree in the living state, 
to D. latifolia. The Java specimens, as a matter of fact, do not appear to the writer to agree 
exactly either with D. Jatifulia of Northern India or with D. sissotles of Southern India, but of the 
two they seem by their leaves and pods to agree better with D. s’ssoides than with the form to 
whieh Koorders and Valeton have referred it. Perhaps the Southern India and the Java trees are 
different geographical forms of the more widespread D. latifolia. 
The Andaman form of D. latifolia by its inflorescence, and the Malay Peninsula form of 
tha same trees by its leaves seem both to approach the Java form, though as regards its pods 
the Malay Peninsula tree is quite like the Northern Indian one and is unlike the Javanese tree. 
In consequence of this similarity on the part of the Andaman tree, as shown by manuscript 
drawing by Roxburgh, and of the Java tree, the writer suggested two years ago that the name 
D. emarginata be adopted for the species. The fact was, however, overlooked that Bentham has 
recorded his having met with a specimen of Roxburgh’s D. emarginata, named by Roxburgh himself 
D. Kydiana, from the Andamans, and that this specimen belongs to D. latifolia: this record is 
decisive, hence the present change. Bentham does not state in what Herbarium he saw this specimen ; 
the writer has not succeeded in tracing it. 
Prate 63. Dalbergia sissoides GraA,—1, Flowering branch; specimen from Segur, 
Nilgiris, л, s.; 2, fruiting branch; specimen from Kodaikanal, Pulneys, т. ә.; 3, bud, 
enclosed in bracteoles X 4; 4, calyx, laid open x 4; 9, 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 8; 12, pod from Pulney specimen, n 5.; 13, immature seed from the same x 6; 
14, pod, from Java specimen, я. s.; 15, ripe seed from the same, 7. 8. 
