DALBERGARIA. 95 
Іхро-ОнтчА: Burma; Shan Hills, at Fort Stedman, Collett ! Indine, Abdul Khalil! 
Lwekaw, Abdul Khalil! Myingyin, Prazer | Cambodia; Xpong, on Mt. Pang-Chai, Pierre 
1042! 
PLATE 77. Dalbergia “Hemsleyi Prain,—1l, Specimen in young fruit, from Fort 
Stedman, л. 8. ; 2, calyx, laid open X 4; 3, standard x 4; 4, wings X 4; 
5, keel-petals X 4; 6, stamens x 4; 7, fruiting branch from Myingyin, n. а.; 
8, fruit from Indine, laid open, showing seed im situ, m. $.; 9, seed, m. s. 
This species belongs to the same group as D. lanceolaria, D. Oliveri and D. Balansae, and is 
apparently the Shan and Cambodian representative of the group. It most resembles D. lanceolaria, 
though it has even fewer leaflets than that species usually has. Its agreement with D. lanceolaria is 
marked chiefly by the fact that the panicles are in the axils of leaves of the same season instead of 
issuing from below these. It has, moreover, the same dense pubescence that characterises D. lanceolaria 
when the leaves and shoots of that species are young. It differs, however, very markedly in having 
this pubescence persistent, whereas in D. lanceolaria the shoots and leaves beneath soon become nearly 
or quite glabrous. There is no marked thickening at the base of tho standard-blade in this species; 
its flowers therefore become practically identical with those of D. Oliveri; nor are its pods and seeds 
very different from those of that species, which has sometimes pubescent branchlets and leaflets 
subpersistently pubescent (the form = D. Prazeri) beneath. The much more numerous leaflets of D. 
Oliveri, however, and the flowers springing not even from old leaf-axils, but in lateral pseudo-panicles, 
the main rachis of which ends in a leafy shoot and develops ultimately into a leafy branch, very 
amply distinguish that species from the present one. 
No native name has been recorded from Burma for D. Hemsleyi, and it is not impossible that 
some of the remarks made regarding the wood of D. Oliveri are really applicable to this species. The 
Kmer name for this in Cambodia is X»ow; this name is, however, also used for D. paniculata. 
« 21. Canae.—Pod wide-ligulate, samaroid ; style subulata; leaflets acute or subacute 4 
trees. 
A subnatural group. D. Wattit differs considerably in facies and in pod from the remaining 
species and, but for the inadvisability of unduly multiplying our groups, might be made to 
stand apart. It agrees with the other species as regards style, and it differs from the Lanceolarieae, 
with which it has much in common, both as to style and as to shape of leaflets. It thus forms a 
good connecting link between the Lanceolarieae and the Canae rather than a satisfactory member 
of either group. The remaining species, though sometimes very different in appearance and in size 
of leaflets and fruits, are in essential characters very closely allied. 
78. DarBERGIA Матти Clarke Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 17. t. 5 (1889); Prain 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2, 451 (1897); lxx. 2, 53 (1901). 
А tree, 30 feet high, with spreading, sub-bifarious, glabrous branches. Leaves 6—8 in. 
long ; leaflets 9—11, often subopposite, ovate-lanceolate acute with involute margine, 
dark-green glabrous above, glaucesent faintly hairy beneath, 2:5—3 in. long, 1 in. 
wide, membranous, finely reticulate; rachis 3:5—4 in. long, glabrous as are the very short 
petiolules; stipules ovate-lanceolate, foliaceous, deciduous. Flowers in axillary panicles 
2 in. long 1'5 in. wide, peduncles, branches and pedicels sparsely pilose; basal and 
epicalycine bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, subpersistent, the latter half as long as calyx- 
tube; calyx campanulate, teeth acute, the two upper subconnate, all except the lanceolate 
lowest shorter than the tube; corolla white, petals all rather long-clawed, standard 
orbicular emarginate; stamens 10, in two lateral bundles of 5 cach, filaments ail 
