86 .AMERIMNON. 
except the lowest lanceolate as long as the tube; corolla white, petals all rather long- 
clawed, standard suborbicular, emarginate; stamens 10, in 2 lateral bundles of 5 each ; 
ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent; style slender, stigma small capitate; ovules usually 
4—5. Pod indehiscent, tapering below to the rather short Stipe, apex acute, flat, 
brownish, coriaceous, narrowly ligulate, 1—5-seeded, glabrous, 1—2 іп, long, :925—:4 
in. wide, reticulated opposite the seeds; seed reniform, compressed, :2 in. long, °l in. 
wide, testa dull, brownish. 
Himaraya: Dehra Dun; Wallich! Royle} Shimála, Jnayat! Mackinnon! Garhwal, 
Kirg! Duthie! Kamaon; Strachey & Winterbottom! Т, Thomson! King! below Betwari, 
9,000 ft.! Duthie! Ganges Valley, 3,000—4,000 ft., Duthie! Nepal Walli! Sikkim ; 
Garideora, Clarke! Choonbuttea, Clarke ! Mungpoo, Gammie! Mahanadi, Gamble! 
Pankabari, Gamble! Ryang, Lister! Pra ! Sivoke, Gamble! Tista Valley, 3,000— 
4,000 ft, Pram! Bootan; Grifith! Kalimpong, 4,000 ft, Gamble! Alipur Duars ; 
Mahakalguri, Heawood ! 
Prare 66. Dalbergia sericea С. Don,—1, Flowering branch, from Kumaon, я, s. % 
2, bud x 4; 8, epicalycine bracteoles x 4; 4, calyx, laid open х 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; 1l, ovule x 16; 12, twig with fruiting panicle, from Sikkim, n. s. ; 18, pod, 
".%.; 14, pod, opened, showing young seed, я. ғ.; 15, seed x 2, 
63, DALBERGIA sACERDOTUM Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng, lxx. 2, 42 (1901). 
А tree; the young twigs soft, blackish, faintly puberulous. Leaves 8 in. long; 
leaflets 9—11, ovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse notched, membranous, finely reticulated, 
sparsely adpressed-puberulous on both surfaces, 2'5 in, long, 1°25 іп, wide, the rachis 
6 in. long, finely puberulous; petiolules +15 in. long, puberulous; stipules spathulate- 
lanceolate, puberulous. Flowers in terminal thyrsoid panicles 3 in, long, 95 in, wide, 
the peduncle, branches and slender pedicels rusty-puberulous; Draeteoles lanceolate 
obtuse, membranous, deciduous; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; teeth all obtuse, the two 
upper somewhat connate, the lowest longer than the others; petals all short-clawed ; 
standard orbicular faintly thickened at base; stamens 10, monadelphous, immature; ovary 
shortly stipitate, stipe hairy, elsewhere glabrous; ovules 4, Pod narrowly ligulate, 
thinly coriaceous, tapering to the stipitate base, apex acute; glabrous, 3-seeded, 5: 
in, long., 785 in. wide. | | ү 
Caa: Shanghai, Hélot & d’Argy 75! 
The flowers are young and the stamens are monadelphous; this, however, does not ртесіпде the 
possibility of their being diadelphous at a later stage. Except for the monadelphous condition of 
the staminal sheath, all the characters of D. sacerdotum indicate û closé “affinity” with D. sericea G. 
Don, next to which the writer would suggest that the species should stand. If the character 
of monadelphous stamens be held ‘to outweigh every other consideration, then the species must be 
placed near D. Sissoo, The reverend Collectors give as its Chinese name Te-Zy or “ Aloes-wood," 
PLATE 67. Dalbergia sacerdotum Prain.— 1, Branch from Shanghai, in Herb. Paris, 
п.з.; 9, calyx, laid open x 4; 3, standard x 4; 4, wings x 4; 5, keel-petals x 4; 
6, stamens X 4; 7, ovary x 4; 8, the same, laid open X 4; 9, ovule x 10; 10, pod, 
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