6^ D. Prain — The Asiatic sj.-)ecie.'i of Dalbergia. [No. 1, 



Inte, glabrous on both surfaces the terminal exceeding the others, 4-9 cm. 

 long, 2-4 cm. wide, rachis 65-9 cm. long and petiolules 5 mm. long 

 glabrous. Flowers numerous small, secund, in dichotomous cymes 

 disposed in terminal corymbose wide panicles extending into the axils of 

 the upper leaves, 12-15 cm. long, 8-10 cm. wide, shortly pedicelled, 

 2-bracteolate below the calyx, bracteoles persistent. Calyx campanulate, 

 5- toothed, teeth all obtuse, subequal, rather shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla white, the petals rather distinctly clawed ; standard orbicular, 

 subauriculate, slightly emargiuate. Stamens 9, in a sheath slit along 

 the back ; sometimes a free vexillary stamen present. Ovary glabrous, 

 shortly stipitate, style short ; ovule solitary. Pod distinctly stipitate, 

 coriaceous, oblong, glabrous, veined opposite the seed, 4-6 cm. long, 

 2 cm. wide, l-seeded. Seed reniform, much compressed. D. parviflora 

 Train, Journ. As. Soc, Beng. Ixvi. 2. 121 (1897) in part, not of Roxb. 



Malaya: Lingga, Teysmann ! Bigni Telok, 3500 feet, f'orfces 3216 ! 

 Warhtrg n. 20310, in Herb. Berol., leaf-specimens from the Aru Islands, 

 appears the same. 



This the writer in 1897 supposed to be a form of D. joarviflora^ bnt the oppor- 

 tunity of examining its fruits, afforded by the kindness of Dr. Treub, who lent the 

 Herbarium material of Dalbergia from Buitenzorg, shows that this is a very distinct 

 species. 



66. Dalbergia Albicrtisii Prain. A climbing shrub ; young 

 branches terete. Leaves 18-20 cm. long ; leaflets 8-9, lateral distinctly 

 alternate, very dark-green and quite glabrous on both suifaces, firmly 

 coriaceous, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, secondary 

 nerves faint especially above, rather numerous, ovate-acute with rounded 

 base, terminal rather the largest, 7 cm. long, 3*25 cm. wide; rachis 

 14-16 cm. long, and petiolules 3 mm. long glabrous. Flowers minute, 

 secund, in ample terminal thyrsoid panicles, with sparsely puberulous, 

 zigzag rachis 12 cm. long, giving off at each angle stoutish, horizontal 

 branches 2'5 cm. long, breaking at their tips into 2 or more reflexed 

 cyme-branches ; bracts and bracteoles minute, deciduous. Calyx 

 1"5 mm., teeth short obtuse. Corolla and stamens not seen. Pot? thin, 

 membranous, green, suborbicular apiculate and 1-seeded, rarely oblong 

 and 2-seeded, slightly cuneate at the base, 2*5-4 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, 

 2 mm. thick, finely puberulous, rather distinctly wide-reticulate 

 throughout, with a short but distinct stipe 4 mm. long. 



New Guinea : Fly River, D'Albertis ! 



A very distinct species with the inflorescence of the group to which D. multi- 

 fiova and D, Junghuhnii belong, but differing in the bracteoles not being persistent 

 and still more in foliage. Its nearest ally is D, Forbesii from Sumatra, a species 

 with much thinner leaves. 



