1897.] G. King' — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 117 



long as calyx-tube. Calyx *15 in. long, pubescent, campanulate, teeth 

 acute upper shorter than lanceolate lower. Corolla white or pink, "25 

 in. long, claws of petals as long as calyx-tube. Stamens 9 monadel- 

 phous. Pod thin obtuse brownish, short-stalked, 1-seeded, 2-3 in. long, 

 '6-7 in. wide. 



Var. typica ; leaves beneath, leaf-racbis, linear-lanceolate stipules, 

 peduncles and bracts pale rusty- velvety. D. velutina Benth. Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl- 43 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 233. * JD. stipulata 

 Wall. Cat. 5868. 



Malacca ; Maingay ! Distrib. Burma, Assam. 



Var. Maingayi Prain ; leaves puberulous glaucescent beneath ; leaf- 

 rachis, ovate-acuminate stipules, peduncles and bracts very darkly rusty- 

 puberulous. 



Malacca; Maingay 612! Singapore; Ridley! Distrib. Tenas- 

 serim {Griffith 1798) ; Malay Archipelago. 



The only pods of true D. velutina at Calcutta are still unripe ; the description 

 of the fruit is therefore taken from Mr. Baker's account : to Mr. Bentham the fruit 

 was unknown. 



Of var. Maiyigayi which, as a note made in Herb. Kew indicates, is at Kew 

 treated as a "less hairy variety" of D. velutina, the writer has seen no fruit. Not 

 improbably it may be found ultimately necessary to treat it as a distinct species to 

 be known as D. Maingayi. 



6. Dalbergia tamarikdifolia Roxb. Hort. Beng. 53. A shrubby 

 climber, 15-40 feet high with densely pubescent young branches. 

 Leaves 5-6 in. long, leaflets 25-41, thinly pubescent on both surfaces 

 rather paler beneath, crowded, trapezoid-oblong, '6-75 in. long, *3 in. 

 wide, moderately firm, caducous ; rachis densely puberulous 45-5'5 in. 

 long, petiolules very short ; stipules lanceolate densely puberulous "2 in. 

 long. Flowers with the leaves, in congested sessile axillary panicles 

 with corymbose branches *5-2 in. long, '5-1 in. wide, peduncles, branches 

 and pedicels densely puberulous, bracts rather large ovate and bracteoles 

 persistent puberulous ; pedicels as long as calyx with solitary bracteole 

 as base and two rather large ovate close under calyx, the lower fourth 

 of which they embrace. Calyx campanulate, glabrescent (in Malayan 

 specimens), pale greenish-yellow, "15 in. long, teeth short obtuse. Corolla 

 white 35 in. long, claws of petals as long as calyx- tube. Stamens 

 usually 9, rarely 10, monadelphous. Ovary glabrous ; ovules 2-3. Pod 

 thin greenish, drying bright-brown, glabrous, long-stalked, strap-shaped, 

 subacute ; 1-3-seeded ; not veined nor thickened opposite the seeds, 

 1-5-3 in. long, '4-5 wide. Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 233 (in part only) ; 

 Wight, Icones, t. 242 (excluding fig. of fruit) ; Wall. Cat. 5870 ; Benth! 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 44; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 131 ; Bak. 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 234. D. rufa Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5864. 



