1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 115 



as tube. Corolla white '25 in. long, claws of petals short. Stamens 9 

 monad elphous. Pod thin glabrous, 2-3 in. long '75-1 in. wide, 1-3- 

 seeded, stalk very short. Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 41 ; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 233. 



Andamans ; very common. Distrib. Eastern Himalaya, Assam, 

 Chittagong, Pegu. 



A very distinct species ; the description of the pod given in the Flora of British 

 India is apparently taken from another species. 



3. Dalbergia Junghuhnii Benth. PI. Jungh. 254. A shrubby 

 climber 15-30 feet long, with twining glabrous branches, here and there 

 twisted and thickened into spiral hooks. Leaves 4—5 in. long, leaflets 

 7—15, oblong or elliptic, rounded at both ends faintly emarginate at the 

 apex, green and glabrous above, glaucescent and glabrous or faintly 

 puberulous beneath, 6-1 '5 in. long '35-75 in. wide; rachis 2*5-4 in. 

 long, petiolules '15 in. long. Flowers minute, secund in an ample ter- 

 minal and- in smaller axillary paniculate cymes 2 in. wide and as long as 

 the leaves, peduncle branches and pedicels pubescent ; bracts minute 

 caducous ; bracteoles all persistent, one at base of short pedicel lanceo- 

 late acuminate very minute, two at base of calyx ovate-obtuse embrac- 

 ing the lower third of calyx-tube. Calyx "08 in. campanulate, teeth 

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

 long as tube. Corolla white, '15 in. long, claws of petals short. Stamens 

 9 monadelphous. Ovary pubescent. Pod thin membranous greenish, 

 glabrous, 2*5-3 in. long, 1-1*3 in. wide, 1-seeded, slightly cuneate at base 

 and distinctly stalked. 



Var. typica ; leaflets usually 7-9, oblong, glabrous or only faintly 

 puberulous beneath. D. Juvghuhnii Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, 

 Suppl. 33; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 129; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 

 233. 



Penang ; 500 feet, Curtis ! Malacca ; Maingay 547 ! 547/2 ! Good- 

 enough ! Berry! Singapore; Hullett 141! Ridley I Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Java. 



Var. Scortechinii Prain ; leaflets 11-15 elliptic, beneath more close- 

 ly puberulous especially on midrib. 



Penang ; Ayer Etam, Curtis 1437 ! Malacca ; Bijong, Scortechini 

 1830! Maingay 549! Singapore; Bukit Timah, Ridley 6406 ! Distrib. 

 Borneo. 



These two plants differ in no way as regards flowers ; the leaves however differ 



considerably in appearance and it may ultimately be found that the second variety 



of which the fruit is as yet unknown — should be known as a distinct species 

 Dalbergia Scortechinii. The original specimens on which Mr. Bentham founded the 

 species were collected by Junghuhn in Sumatra and by Griffith in Malacca ; the 

 writer has not seen either. Mr. Bentham describes the ova)-- as glabrous in his 



