100 AMERIMNON, 
80. DALBERGIA VOLUBILIS Roxb. Согот, Pl. ii. 48, t. 191 (1798); Hort. Beng. 53 
(1811); DC. Prodr. ii. 417 (1825); Spreng. Syst. iii. 193 (1826); Roxb. 
Flor. Ind. iii. 231 (1832); Wall. Cat. 5874 (1832); W. & A. Prodr. i. 
265 (1834); Grah. Cat. Bomb. 55 (1839); Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 
Suppl. 46 (1860); Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 78 (1861); Brandis For. 
Flor. 152 (1874); Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 235 (1876); Kurz 
For. Flor. Burm. i. 346 (1877); Talb. Bomb. List 75 (1894); Woodr. 
Journ. Nat. Hist, бос. Bomb. xi. 426 (1897); Praiu Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. lxvi. 2, 114 (1897); lxx. 2, 54 (1901); Cooke Flor. Pres. Bomb, 1. 
400 (1902); Prain Bengal Plants i. 410 (1903). 
D. confertiflora Benth. Journ. Linn. бос. iv. Suppl. 41 partly—Oudh and 
Conean plants (1860); Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 233 
partly (1876); Talb. Bomb. List 75 (1894), not of Benth. in Pl. Jungh. 
D. purpurea Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 46 partly (1860); Bak. in 
Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 235 partly (1876), not of Wall. 
D. stipulacea Gamble Darjeel. List 29 partly (1896), not of Roxb. 
A large woody climber, 40—60 feet long, sometimes when deprived of foreign 
support a straggling bush, with twining glabrescent branches here and there thickened 
and twisted into spiral hooks; branchlets puberulous, sub-bifarious. Leaves 4—5 in. long; 
leaflets 11—13, obovate or ovate-oblong, when young often abruptly shortly acumin- 
ate, when full-grown obtuse or slightly retuse and faintly . mucronulate, dark-green 
above, paler beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, “75--1 in. long, :5—'75 in. wide; 
rachis 3—4 in. long and petiolules “15 in. long, glabrous; stipules rather large, ovate- 
Janceolate, wide-based, very caducous. Flowers in copious terminal panicles extending 
sometimes into the axils of the uppermost leaves, 8—12 in. long, 5—6 in. wide, with 
glabrous peduncles and numerous horizontal or decurved puberulous branches 1—8 in. 
long, the corymbs congested; bracts small, ovate, subpersistent, bracteoles at bases of 
pedicels lanceolate, persistent, epicalycine bracteoles ovate, persistent; calyx campanulate, 
densely puberulous, teeth lanceolate, the lowest longest, except the two upper obtuse 
subconnate ; corolla pale-blue, petals all rather long-clawed, standard broadly orbicular, 
emarginate, reflexed at junction of blade and claw; stamens 10, usually in two lateral 
bundies of 5 each, occasionally the lower fissure incomplete, filaments free іп their 
upper fourth; ovary pubescent, stipitate; style slender, short, stigma minute; ovules 
1—2. Pod indehiscent, distinctly stipitate, linear-oblong, obtuse, rounded or slightly 
cuneate at base, distinctly reticulated throughout, especially opposite the 1 rarely 2 
seeds, glabrous, 2—3 in. long, '75—' 55. їп. wide; seed reniform, compressed, “3 in. 
long, 2 i>. wide. 
INDIA: Malabaria; Travancore, Lawson! Malabar, Stocks! S. Kanara, Metz! N. Kanara, 
Talbot! Concan, Stocks! Coromandelia; Bolimpati, Wight! Kurnool, Gamble! бабан. 
Roxburgh! Ganjam, Gamble! Orissa, Lace! Chota Nagpur, Жылды Campbell! Wood! 
Gamble! Clarke! Т. Thomson! Behar; Kurz! Ball! Campbell! Central India; Sagor, 
Jerden | Central Provinces, Duthie! Ишин Submontane forests; Kamaon Bhabar, 
Strachey & Winterbottom! Oudh, ` Wallich! Duthie! Gorakhpur, Duthie! Sikkim Terai, 
Anderson! Gamble! Clarke! Duars, Gumble! INDO-CHINA: Assam ; Goalpara, Clarke ! баз 
Hills, Watt! Chittagong; Thanacheri, Hooker $ Thomson! Gamble! Demagri, Lister ! 
Kodala, Badalkhan! Burma; Kachin Hills, Shaik Mugim! Chin Hills, Prazer! Abdul Hug | 
Bhamo, J. Andersen ! Shway Yoe, J. Anderson! Pegu, Branais! Ки г! Shan Hills, Collett! 
