1901.] . D. Prain — The Asiatic species of Dalbergia. 59 



This has been confounded with D. Junghnhnli Benth. by Mr. Baker and the 

 writer. The fewer differently-shaped leaflets and the stercoraceons odour of the 

 flowers amply distinguish it. Miquel, whose Sumatra specimens of " D. frondosa " 

 have been seen by the writer, has named it as above. Both D. sennoidcs Bl. and 

 D. 'pliyllanthoides Bl. have been included here by Miquel but authentic examples of 

 these, named by Blume, have been seen by the writer and their trup place is indicated 

 under the latter species. 



58. Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. Sf Perr. Flor. Sei}eg. Tent. 227, 

 t. 33 (1834) ; Benth., Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl 47 (1860). D. Stocksii 

 Benth., Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 42(1860); Bah. in Hook, f, Flor. 

 Brit. Lid. ii. 234 (1876). 



Western India : Concan,iS^oc^5.^ Cauara, Talbot ! also at Poona, cult. 

 Woodroiv ! Madras, cult. Wight's Collector! Calcutta, cult. Thomson! 

 Anderson ! King ! etc. Distrib. — Africa, from Senegal to Abyssinia and 

 Mozambique. 



The examination of Stocks' specimens, and of some exactly like them from 

 Canara in Mr. Talbot's herbarium, makes it certain that the plant termed D. StocJcsii 

 by Bentham is the African D. melanoxylon, as represented by many specimens in 

 the Herbaria of Kew, the British Museum, Mr. de Candolle and Calcutta. The 

 same species has been in cultivation at Calcutta at least since 1858, that being the 

 earliest date on our herbarium specimens collected in the Gardens. At Madras it 

 appears to have been in cultivation about as long. There is nothing about Stocks' 

 specimens to indicate whether that botanist considered the tree indigenous or 

 introduced, but the note by Mr. Talbot that the plant is known in Western India 

 as "Chinese Blackwood," as opposed to D. latifolia or " Bombay Blackwood," points 

 to a foreign origin. 



59. Dalbergia multiflora Heyne ex Wall, in Gat. sub, n. 5848 

 (1832). Dalbergia sympathetica Nimmo in Grah. Oat. Bomb. PI. 55 

 (1839) ; Voigt, Hart. Suburb. Calcutt. 241 (1845) ; Benth., PI. Jungh. 255 

 (1854); Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl 42 (1860); Dalz. Sr Gibs., Bomb. 

 Flor. 78 (1861) ; Bale, in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Lid. ii. 234 (1876) ; Talbot, 

 Bomb. List 75 (1894). D. frondosa Wall. Cat. 5855 parthj (1832); 

 W. Sr A. Prodr. 266 parthj (1834), not of Roxb. D. paniculata Wall. Cat. 

 5848 partly (1832), not of Roxb. — Anamullu Rheede, Hort. Malabar. 

 viii. 40. 



Western India : Concan, Stocks ! Kuntze ! Canara, Talbot ! Mysore, 

 Heyne ! Wight ! Travaiicore, Laivson 205 ! 



var. glabi escens Prain ; leaflets glabrous above, glabrescent or 

 sparingly pubescent beneatli. 



Southern India: Carnatic, Wight S\9 K.D. / G. Thomson! Courtal- 

 1am, Wight 267 ! Travancore, Lawson 218 ! 



In 1897 the writer pointed out in this Journal (vol. Ixvi. pt. 2, p. 446) that 

 Wallich's n. 5848 B (from Herh. Heyne) is this species and not, as Wallich erroneously 

 supposed, D. paniculata. Working subsequently through the British Museum 



