234 XLV. LEGUMINOS^ [Dalbergia 



Subhimalayan tract in Sikkim {D. foliacea, Gamble list 29), the Dwars, Assam, 

 Khasi hills and Silhet. Fl. March, April. Also Tonkin, Celebes. 



4. D. foliacea, Wall., is a large straggling or climbing shrub of Burma, similar to 

 D. rimosa, but leaflets 9-13, oblong, obtuse or emarginate, quite glabrous. Fl. in 

 ample terminal panicles. 



5. D. ovata, Grab. Vern. Madama, Burm. 



A moderate-sized deciduous tree, quite glabrous, except inflorescence, which 

 is rusty-tomentose when quite young. Leaflets 5-9, elliptic, acuminate, com- 

 mon petiole 3-5 in. long. Fl. white, \-\ in. long, calyx supported by an 

 obtuse bracteole. Stamens 9. Panicles large, terminal, common peduncle 

 flexuose, branches black divaricating. Pods oblong-lanceolate, 1-3-seeded 



Lower and Upper Burma. Fl. C.S. Cochinchina. Kurz F. Fl. i. 343 separates 

 from this D glauca, by obtuse mucronate leaflets. This is D. obtusifolia, Frain in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 70, 42. 



6. D. cultrata, Grah. ; Kurz., F. Fl. i. 342 ; Vern. Yindaik, Burm. 



A deciduous tree, attaining 70 ft., with purplish black heartwood, often with 

 lighter and darker streaks. Young shoots adpressed silky-pubescent. Leaflets 

 7-13, obovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Fl. appearing; with the fresh leaves, 

 i in. long, white or pale pink (white, scented, Upper Burma), on pedicels as 

 long as calyx, in unilateral paniculate racemes. Stamens 9. Pod oblong, 

 1-4 in. long, with 1-3 seeds. 



Common in deciduous and evergreen forest of the plains and hills, Lower and 

 Upper Burma. Dry country of the Irawaddi valley. Fl. H.S. Fr. C.S. 



7. D. Collettii, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 66 (1898) 445. Shan hills, Upper 

 Burma, has the branches grey-downy, leaflets 9-15, 1-2 in. long, grey-puberulous 

 above, pubescent beneath. Fl. minute (J in. long) in ample terminal panicles, pod 1-2- 

 seeded, lanceolate on a long stalk, tapering to both ends. In Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 vol. 70, 56, Prain states this is a large climber. 



8. D. trarmanica, Prain, I.e., 448. Ruby Mines district, Upper Burma, is a middle- 

 sized tree, youngest shoots finely puberulous, leaflets 7-9, glabrous, 1^-2 in. long. Fl. 

 purple, in short sessile brown-pubescent panicles. 



B. Climbers. Stamens 9 or 10, united into a sheath split above. 



9. D. rubiginosa, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 115. 



A woody climber, running over the largest trees, branches stiff, divaricating, 

 often bent and twisted, branchlets finely pubescent or softly tomentose. Com- 

 mon petiole rigid, 1-2^ in. long, leaflets 5-1 1, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, sometimes 

 mucronate or emarginate, 1-2 in. long, upper side glabrous or finely pubescent, 

 .under side densely tomentose or silky, rarely quite glabrous. Secondary nerves 

 not conspicuous, numerous, parallel. Fl. white, \ in. long, crowded in short 

 axillary panicles, calyx brown, silky or tomentose. Pod thin, glabrous, 14-2 

 in. long. 



Western G-hats from Kanara to Malabar. Fl. February to May. In this I include D. 

 eongesta, Graham, which is pubescent, and D. Gardneriana, Benth., which is densely 

 tomentose. The last form is common on the Nilgiris. Prain, I.e. 444, regards all three 

 as separate species. 



Nearly allied are 2 eastern species : 10. D. confertiflora, Benth. Silhet, Chittagong, 

 Pegu, Andamans. Leaflets 11-15, 1-1J in. long, obtuse, glabrous, fl. crowded at the 

 ends of ramifications of ample terminal panicles. 11. D. velutina, Benth. Khasi hills, 

 Burma, Malay Peninsula. Densely rusty-pubescent, leaflets glabrous at last, 13-17, 

 oblong, 1J-2 in. long. 



12. D. rostrata, Grah. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 70, 45 (D. psetido-Sissoo, 

 Miq. D. Championii, Thw. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 231). Tmnevelli, foot of Ghats, Ceylon, 

 Malay Peninsula. Leaflets 1-5, 2—4 in. long ; fl. creamy- white, pod 3-4 in., seed 1. 



13. D. Kingiana, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 67, 289, Kachin hills. Leaflets 5-7, 

 coriaceous, shortly acuminate, 3 in. long. 



14. D. tamarindifolia, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t.242. 



Deciduous, branches often twisted, branchlets and inflorescence pubescent. 

 Leaflets 25-41, obliquely oblong \-\ in. long. Fl. white, in sessile compact 



