4^ D. Prain--T7te Asiatic swedes of Dalbergia. [No. 1, 



Ovary glabrous, long-stalked, sfcyle subulate ; ovules 2. Pod narrow- 

 oblong, ratlier firmly coriaceous, with rounded apiculato tip, distinctly 

 stipitate, usanlly 2-seeded, 5-6 cm. long, 125 cm. wide. 



Malaya: Key Islands, Warburg 20S 12 \ Key Toewal, Jalier I Also 

 cult, in Hort. Bogor, introduced from Key Toewal ! 



Most nearly related to D. polyphylla and D, tamarindifoUa but very distinct 

 from both. 



26. Dalbergia polyphylla Benth. Jonrn. Linn. Soc. iv. Sicppl. 44 

 cxlctidiiig the Bornean plant (IS60), D. polyphylla ^ew^/i. PZ. Jungh. i. 

 256, in part ; the Philippine plant only (1854). 



Philippines: Luzon, Ot^nu'wgr 1 1 64 ! Fz^ZaZ 2589 ! 



Specimens of this in Herb. Berol. and Herb. De Candolle have been kindly 

 lent for study ; the writer has also seen those at Kew and the British Museum. 

 The species is a very distinct one, nearest to D. tamarindifoUa. The two plants 

 referred to the same species at different times by Mr. Bentham are both Triptolemex, 

 one is D. Millettii Benth., a Chinese species, the other is D. pliyllanthoides BL, a 

 Malayan one. 



Vidal gives the vernacular name as " Payasi," 



27. Dalbkrgia acaci^folia Dalz. in Kew Jonrn. ii. 37 (1850). 

 D. tamarindifoUa var. acaciaefolia Bak. in Hooh, f, Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 235 (1876). 



Western India: Concan, Laiv ! 'N. Oanara, Talbot SoSSl Tinni- 

 velly Hills, Naidoo ! 



A very distinct species, differing from D. tamariiidifolia, to which it is moHi 

 closely allied, in its foliage, the leaflets being glaucous beneath j and in its larger, 

 firmly coriaceous pod. 



28. Dalbeiigia malabarica Prain. A shrubby climber with 

 densely rusty-pubescent young branches. Leaves 9-10 cm. long ; leaflets 

 21-31, thinly pubescent above, densely tomentose beneath, crowded, 

 elliptic-oblong, hardly or not oblique at the base, 1*25 cm. long, 6-7 mm. 

 wide, moderately firm ; rachis 8-9 cm. long densely pubescent, petiolules 

 very short and lanceolate stipules densely rusty-pubescent. Floiuers 

 with the leaves, in congested, sessile, axillary corymbs 15 cm. long, 6 

 mm. wide ; peduncles densely pubescent, pedicels glabrous ; bracts 

 triangular-ovate, persistent, and bracteoles 2 below calyx lanceolate, 

 persistent, pubescent. Catyx campanulate, glabrous except on the 

 margins of the teeth, 4 mm. long, teeth nearly as long as tube, the tw^o 

 upper connate obtuse, the otl»ers lanceolate acute. Corolla white, 8 mm, 

 long, claws of petals as long as calyx-tube, standard ovate, entire, 

 reflexed. Stamens 9, monadelphous. Ovary glabrous except along the 

 upper suture, stipe distinct pubescent ; style filiform ; ovules 2. Pod 

 ovate-oblong, very thinly coriaceous, glabrous, long stipitate, 3 cm. 



