Dalbergia] 



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axillary panicles with corymbose branches. Pod thin, shining, strap-shaped, 

 li— 3 in. long, 1-3-seeded. 



Subhimalayan tract, from Nepal.eastward, ascending in Sikkim to 3,000 ft.. Assam, 

 Kliasi hills, Andamans, Burma. Western Ghats from Kanara southwards. Fl. March- 

 June. Also in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Prain in Journ. As. Soc. 

 vol. 70, 48, restricts I), lamafindifolia to the Eastern region. In the Western Peninsula 

 he recognizes two species, I). acaciafolia, Dalz., leaflets subcoriaceous, very oblique, 

 glabrous above, glaucous beneath : and D. malabarica, Prain, leaflets densely tomentose 

 beneath, pod 1J in., on a slender stalk ^ in. long. 



15. D. mimosoides, Franchet : Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 70, 56. (V. Millelll 



Fig. 101. — Dalbergia tanceolario, I. inn., Icnf, pod, standard. 



Prain I.e. vol. 66, pt. ii. 446). EChaai hills. Yunnan, Szechuen. Leaflets not oblique, 



I«hU I 2-s led, thick and rugose opposite the - 1. The pod figured in Wight to. t. 



•J 12 is supposed to belong to this species. L6. D. multiflora, Heyne; Train in Journ. 

 A.s. Soe Beng., vol. 70, 69. {D. tympathetica Nimmo : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 284 Deciduous 

 forests of the Western Coast, from the Eonkan southwards, Stem armed with 



curved spines, branches often twisted. Leaflets II IB oval • obovate-oblong, obtuse 



or emarginate, thinly grej silky. Pod thin, 2 B in. long, 1 2-s led, on a short stalk. 



I". D. coromandeiiana, Prain In Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 70, 60, Shevagerry hills. A 

 shrub; branchlets spinous, often curved; leaflets 7 '■'. glabrous, \-K in. long. Pi 

 ellipt Lo-oblong, thin \\ x f. in. 

 is. d. Meianoxyion, i inill. .-ni.l Perr. (JD. Stocktii, Bent! - bia, a small tree 



