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§ 1. Dalbergaria. Pod thin and flattened except opposite the 

 seeds. Stamens diadelphous in two lateral phalanges of 5 filaments each. 



1. Dalbergia volubilis Roxb. Cor. PI. II, 48 t. 191. A large woody 

 climber, 40-60 feet high, with twining glabrescent branches here and 

 there thickened and twisted into spiral hooks. Leaves 4-5 in. long, 

 leaflets 11-13 obovate, or ovate-oblong rounded, obtuse or slightly retuse 

 faintly mucronulate at apex, dark-green above paler beneath, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, "75-1 in. long 'h—'lh in. across ; racbis 3-4 in. long and 

 petiolules *15 in. long, quite glabrous. Floivers in copious terminal and 

 axillary panicles 8-12 in. long with glabrous peduncles and with 

 numerous horizontal or decurved puberulous branches 1-3 in. long 

 bearing corymbose cymes, ultimate corymbs densely congested ; bracts 

 at base of branches of panicle small ovate subpersistent ; pedicels 

 slender puberulous, lower *2 in. long upper very short with a small lan- 

 ceolate persistent bracteole at base and two small ovate ones embracing 

 the lower fifth of calyx-tube. Calyx campanulate, densely puberulous '1 

 in. long, teeth lanceolate lowest exceeding the others. Corolla pale-blue 

 '25 in. long, standard broadly orbicular emarginate, reflexed at junction 

 of blade and claw. Stamens 10, in two lateral groups of 5 each. Pod 

 distinctly stalked, linear-oblong obtuse membranous, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. 

 wide; 1-2-seeded. Hort. Beng. 53; Fl. Ind. Ill, 231; DC. Prodr. II, 

 417; Wall. Cat. 5874; W. & A. Prodr. 265; Benth. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. IV, Suppl. 46; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 235. 



Andamans ; very common. Distrib. Throughout India and Indo- 

 China. 



By an oversight this is described in the F. B. I. as having ebracteate pedicels ; 

 in reality each pedicel has three persistent bracteoles, one at its base, two at its 

 apex. 



§ 2. Sissoa. Pod thin and flattened except opposite the seeds. 

 Stamens monadelphous. 



2. Dalbergia confertiflora Benth. PI. Jungh. 255. A large 

 climber with sparsely puberulous, soon glabrescent branches. Leaves 

 4-6 in. long, leaflets firm 11-15, oblong obtuse or retuse, green and 

 glabrous above paler and sparsely puberulous beneath, 1-1*5 in. long, 

 *5-'75 in. wide; rachis 3-4 in. long, glabrous as are the petiolules *2 in. 

 long. Flowers rather small in ample terminal and axillary panicles, 3-5 in. 

 long, of corymbosely or subcapitately crowded cymes ; peduncle and 

 branches rather densely pubescent ; bracts puberulous minute ovate deci- 

 duous ; solitary bracteoles at base of pedicels also ovate deciduous ; pair 

 at base of calyx ovate-lanceolate persistent embracing lower fifth of calyx- 

 tube Calyx *15 in. long, pubescent, rather narrowly tubular, teeth short 

 obtuse, one-third as long as tube except the lower lanceolate half as long 



