44 D.' Praiu — The Asiatic species of Dalbergia. [No. 1, 



Wallich ! Amherst, Brandis ! Rangoon, Kurz! Pegu, Ktirz ! Teuasserim, 

 Heifer 1804 ! Malaya : Malacca, Maingay 548 ! 



VAR. Maingayi Praiu, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 117 (1897). 



Burma: Mergiii, Grifth 1798 ! Tenasseriin, Heifer 1804 ! Malaya: 

 Malacca, Maingay 612 ! Singapore, Ridley 6086 ! 5923 ! Borneo, 

 Havlland 1444 ! 



Heifer 1804 in Herb. Berlin is typical D. velutina. lu Herb. Paris th« same 

 uumber is attaclied to a specimen of var. Maingayi. The Boruean plant may be 

 varietally distinct. 



11. Dalbergia borneensis Brain, A long climber witli perfectly 

 glabrous brandies. Leaves 8-12 cm. long, leaflets 7-9, oblong, obtuse, 

 mucronulate, membranous, quite glabrous on both surfaces, 2*5 cm. long, 

 1"25 cm. wide, the terminal more cuneate at base and slightly larger 

 than the others ; stipules large, sparingly puberulous or glabrous ; rachis 

 8 cm. long and petiolules 2*5 mm. long glabrous. Flowers in lax lateral 

 panicles with corymbose branches 6 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, the peduncles, 

 branches and pedicels glabrous or very sparingly puberulous, bracts 

 and 2 bracteoles at base of calyx narrowly subulate, puberulous. 

 Calyx 4 mm. long, puberulous, campanulate, base slightly gibbous, 

 teeth acute subequal, upper pair wider than the three lanceolate 

 lowest. Gorolla white, petals with claws as long as calyx-tube, 

 standard orbicular, emarginate, reflexed. Stamens usually 10, in one 

 bundle slit along top. Ovary long-stipitate, glabrous, style subulate ; 

 ovule usually solitary. Pod thinly coriaceous, pale straw-coloured, 

 finely uuiformly reticulated throughout, 1-seeded. Seed markedly 

 reniform, 1"25 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 12 ram. thick. 



Malaya : Borneo, near Kuching, Haviland 2889 ! Kalong, Haviland 

 2890 ! 



12. Dalbergia Dyeriana Prain. A large climber, with slender, 

 blackish, glabrous branches, branchlets occasionally hooked. Leaves 

 8-12 cm. long, leaflets 11-15, obovate-oblong, base cuneate^ apex rounded 

 refcuse, thinly coriaceous, finely closely reticulate, sparsely adpressed- 

 pubescent beneath, 2*5-3 cm. long, 1-1*25 cm. wide, rachis 7-9 cm. 

 long and petiolules 2*5 mm. long glabrous or sparsely adpressed- 

 pubescent. Flowers white, in lax few-flowered axillary panicles 5 cm. 

 long, 3 cm. wide, rachis, branches and pedicels 3 mm. long puberulous. 

 Calyx puberulous, campanulate, teeth triangular, obtuse, shorter than 

 tube except the lowest subacute almost as long as tube. Petals with 

 claws as long as calj'x-tube. Stamens 9, monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, 

 glabrous except the puberulous stipe ; ovules 2-3. Pod l-2.seeded, 

 thinly coriaceous, linear-oblong, 6*5 cm. long when 1-seeded 9 cm. 



