1901.] D. Prain — The Affiatic species of Dalbergia. 57 



embracing lower tliird of tube ovate, persistent, small. Calyx 2'5 ram. 

 long, campauulate, teeth short, obtuse, one-third as long as tube except 

 the lower acute two-thirds the length of tube. OoroZZa white, 5 mm. 

 long, claws of petals short. Stamens 9, monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, 

 glabrous ; ovules 3. Pod thinly coriaceous, narrowly oblong or ligulate, 

 rarely ovate-acute ; 2- or 1-seeded, 2-3 era. long if one-seeded, 5 cm. 

 long if 2-seeded ; 1 cm. wide ; rather distinctly reticulated throughout, 

 not indurated opposite tlie seed. 



China: Hupeli, Henri/ 1355! 1950! 3852! 4135 ! 6188 ! Szechuen, 

 Ky-min-se near Tchan-Keou, Farges 1075 ! 



M. Farges gives the Chinese name of this as Kang-kin-ten. It is very nearly 

 related to both D. Milletti and D. mimosoides but has narrower leaflets and much 

 narrower pods than either, 



52. Dalbkrgia MiLLETTr Benth.j Journ. Linn. Snc. iv. Suppl. 34 

 {\mO)-Flor. Honghmg 92 (1861). D. polyphylla5e?iZ/i., PZ. /mw^^. i. 

 256 in part (1854); Seem. Bot. Her. 375 (1855). Derris pinnata Lour. 

 Flor. Cochin- Chin. 432 {1793) possibly. 



China : Hongkong, Hance 1809 ! Wilford I Ford ! Champion ! 

 Hupeh, Henry 3095! 6286! Yunnan, at Mengtze, 5000 feet, Henry 9975 ! 



53. Dalbergia Hancei Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 54 

 (1860); Flor. Hongkong 93 (1861). 



China: Hongkong, I/a »ce 1810! Ford! Wilford! Weiss! Macao; 

 Callery in Herb. Gaudicliaud, voy. Bonite ! Near Canton, Park 35 ! 



54. Dalbergia Thomsoni Benth. in Journ, Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 33 

 (1860) ; Bale, in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Lid. ii. 236 (1876). 



Assam: Patkoye Mts., Griffith 1799/1 K.D. ! Khasia, Hooker ^ 

 Thomson ! Clarke ! 



This spedies is not a Dalbergaria, but a Triptolemea. 



55. Dalbergia Scortechinii Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 

 444 (1897). A shrubby climber 15-30 feet long with twining glabrous 

 branches here and there twisted and thickened into spiral hooks. 

 Leaves 15-20 cm. long, leaflets 11-15, elliptic, closely puberulous beneath, 

 glabrous except midrib above, 1*5-4 cm. (rarely in young shoots 6 cm.) 

 long, 1-2 (rarely 25) cm. wide, rachis 8-10 cm. long and petiolules 

 4 mm. long densely puberulous. Flowers minute, secund, in an ample 

 terminal and in smaller axillary paniculate cymes 5 cm. wide and as 

 long as the leaves ; peduncles, branches and pedicels pubescent ; bracts 

 caducous ; bracteoles persistent one at base of short pedicels lanceolate 

 acuminate and two at base of calyx ovate obtuse embracing lower third 

 of calyx-tube. Calyx 25 mm. long, campanulate, teeth short, obtuse, 

 one-third as long as tube, except the acute lowest half as long as tube. 



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