88 AMERIMNON. 
In proposing the name D. nigrescens Kurz has noted that this tree also occurs in India, the Indian 
specimens:to which he refers being named by himself and being D. paniculata. That he did not 
refer this tree to D. paniculata was because he followed Wight and Arnott in their identification, the 
greater part of their D. paniculata, as numerous specimens at Kew and at Calcutta show, being 
D. linceoiaria. Ав a consequence Kurz's D. paniculata from Burma is a tree which he supposed to be 
the same as Wight’s D. paniculata, subsequently well characterised by Gamble as D. Oliveri, which is 
much more nearly related to D. lanceolaria than the present one. Gamble, however, states (Manual of 
Indian Timbers) that, as regards stem-structure, D. paniculata and D. nigrescens differ considerably, and 
it may ultimately prove necessary to distinguish the Indian from the Indo-Chinese tree included under 
the present species. If this be done, the Indo-Chinese one must be known as D. nigrescens. But if 
they do differ essentialy in stem-structure, the fact remains that they are identieal as regards leaves, 
flowers and fruits, and that both * dry black'—a circumstance that does not occur in the ease of any 
other Asiatic Dulbergia except the tree here described as D. paniculata var. saigonensis, In Orissa Lace 
finds that this species is known as Labvuklia. Тһе Cambodian tree for which Pierre has suggested the 
apposite name D. anomala is precisely Kurz's D. nigrescens; the Anamite vernacular name is Хез quái, 
the Kmer name is Хпоні. 
VAR. saigonensis var. mov. (D. saigonensis Pierre MSS.) A tree, 50—70 fect high, stem 
nodose or verrucose, bark grey. Leaves 5 in. long; leaflets 8—11, all rather narrowly 
oblong, obtuse or retuse, 1-5 in. long, “65 in. wide. Ped rather narrowly subligulate, 
175—2:5 in. long, “4 in. wide, 1—3-seeded ; seed reniform, compressed, *3 in. long, “9 in. 
wide, testa quite black, shining. 
Гхро-СніхА: Cambodia; Saigon, at Thüdüe, Pierre 222! 
Except in having usually rather fewer, and always decidedly narrower leaflets; in having always 
narrower pods; and in having black in place of brown seeds, this tree does not differ from D. paniculata : 
it *dries black' in preeisely the same fashion. In India, and especially in Central Indo-China, the pods 
of D. paniculata are often much broader than usual; not infrequently these broad pods occur on the same 
branch with pods of the usual size. The pods of vam. saigonemsis do not depart more from the normal 
in one direction than do the broad pods referred to in another. The combination, however, of an 
unusual shape of leaflet with a different colour of testa renders it advisable to distinguish the present 
free at least as a variety: it may indeed ultimately prove necessary to recognise in D. paniculata, as 
here understood, three distinct species:— D. paniculata Roxb., Indian only; D. nigrescens Kurz, throughout 
Central and Eastern Indo-China; and, D. saigonensis Pierre, in Eastern Indo-China only. 
Prar& 68. Dalbergia paniculata Rozb.—1, Flowering branch from the Concan, n. s. ; 
2, bud x 4; 3, calyx, laid open X 4; 4, standard x 4; 5, wings x 4; 6, keel-petals 
X 1; 7, stamens, usual arrangement x 4; 8, stamens, occasional arrangement х 4; 
9, ovary X 4; 10, ovary, laid open x 4; 11, ovule x 10; 12, fruiting twig from 
Cuddapah; 13, fruits of large-leafed form from Kyoukmyoung, 2, з. ; 14, seed, я. s. 
Prate 69. Dalbergia paniculata Roxb. vam. saigonensis Prain.—t, Fruiting branch 
from Thüdüe, Saigon, n. s. ; 2, pod, opened, showing seed in situ, n. 8.; 8, another 
pod, with 3 seeds, seen from one edge, л. s.; 4, seed, m. s, 
05. DALBERGIA НОРЕАХА Hance Journ. Bot. xx. 5 (1882); Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. 
_ Linn. Soc. xxiii. 198 ( 1887); Harms in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 416 
(1900); Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxx. 2, 53 (1901). 
. A tree, 20—80 feet high, with numerous spreading branches ; branchlets sub-bifarious, 
glabrous. Lecves 8—10 in. long; leaflets 9—11, oblong-elliptic, obtuse or retuse, firmly 
