Dalbergia.) LEGUMINOS&. ~ 409 
559, DerRis MARGINATA Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 245. Dalbergia 
marginata F. I. iii. 230. 
ittagon; 
A large ey climber. Vernac. Makrigila. 
560. Derris CUNEIFOLIA Benth. ; F. B. I. ii, 248. Galedupa 
marginata F, i. 241. 
E. Bengal ; Chitagong 
A large wood 
561, DERRIS ELLIPTICA coe F. B. I. ii. 243; E. D. D. 326. 
fone elliptica F. I, iii. 242. 
tagon: 
An Ssiacaive, showy climber. 
255. Dalbergia Linn. f. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing ; leaves odd-pinnate, alternate ; 
leaflets alternate, 5 or more, rarely 8 or 1; stipules usually small, 
deciduous ; stipels 0. Flowers small, usually numerous, in 
simple or panicled axillary or terminal cymes; bracts small, sub- 
persistent ; oretroalen 2, usually minute, often deciduous. Sepals 
9, connate in campanulate tube; the two upper teeth widest, 
the lowest eoth longest. Petals somewhat exserted; 
Crate or orbicular ; wings oblong; keel obtuse. Stamens 10 the 
= y filament free, the rest connate in a sheath, or 10 all con- 
hate in a sheath split above, or 10 in two lateral bundles of 5 each, 
sutures, usually reticulate opposite the seed. Seeds 1-4, reniform, 
Compressed ; hilum small. 
*Pod thin and flattened except opposite the seeds :—[p. 410] 
{Stamens in two lateral phalanges of 5 filaments each :—[p- 410] 
Bracts and bracteoles oblong, finer conspicuous; pod thickly 
suberous opposite the solitary seed, abruptly narrowed to a stipe 
twice as long as calyx; — considerably longer than broad ; a 
climber or a sarmentose shrub .......+c.sesseseseeeotereensereeree stipulacea, 
— — ee nepaan none, or inconspicuous deciduous ; pod coria- 
te the met oe narrowed to a stipe; leaflets not 
ae net than b 
