1897.] D. Praia — Some additional Leguminosse. 443 



Dalbergia sissoides Grah., treated in the F. B. I. as a variety of D. latifolia, is 

 apparently a distinct species, differing in flowers as well as in leaves. Mr. Baker 

 further suggests that D. javanica Miq. may be same as D. sissoides ; it differs some- 

 what in the greater persistence of the obovate bracteoles that embrace the bud. 

 But specimens that Messrs. Koorders and Valeton have recently issued, and others 

 kindly sent from Java by Dr. Treub, show that Mr. Baker is perhaps justified in re- 

 ducing D. javanica to D. latifolia. 



3. Dalbergia ovata Grah. 



Mr. Kurz keeps D. glauca separate from D. ovata as a species ; in this he is 

 perhaps right. D. glauca is the plant described in the F. B. I. as D. ovata var. 

 obtusifolia. 



4. Dalbergia pseudo-sisso'o Miq. 



Add to localities of E 1 . B. I. : — Malay Peninsula ; very common 

 everywhere. Distrib. Borneo. 



This is really, as Mr. Baker suggests, the same as D. pseudo-sissoo Miq. and Dr. 

 Miquel's name, being the earlier, is the one that must be used for the species. 

 For material of Dr. Miquel's species as well as for notes and drawings from all the 

 types preserved in the Leyden Herbarium the writer is indebted to the great kind- 

 ness of Mr. Suringar, who has also proved that D. Sissoo Miq. is not D. Sissoo Roxb. 

 but is simply another form of the present species. 



46. Dalbergia Hullettii Brain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 119 ; 

 a small tree, leafless when flowering; flowers in short clustered racemes 

 emerging from tufts of small rusty-pubescent triangular bracts in axils 

 of fallen leaves, lowest pedicels longer than the rest all rusty-pubescent 

 as are the peduncles, petal-claws as long as calyx, pod unknown. 

 Amerimnon Hullettii Brain MSS. 



Singapore ; Hullett ! 



Branches glabrous rugose black, numerous blackish rugose rusty-puberu- 

 lous branchlets densely covered with numerous clusters of racemes 1-1*5 in. long, 

 laxly rusty-pubescent. Lowest pedicels *3 in. long; bracteoles at base of calyx 

 subulate very small. Calyx campanulate, densely rusty-tomentose, $ in. long. 

 Corolla 2-3 times as long as calyx, blade of standard orbicular. Stamens 9, rarely 

 10, monadelphous. Ovary glabrous with densely pubescent stalk, ovule solitary. 



The pod being unknown this may prove a Sissoa near D. pseudo-sissoo or a 

 Selenolobium near D. monosperma, the probability being however that it is a Sissoa. 

 The nearest ally is an apparently undescribed species from Borneo (Haviland n. 

 2894) which has exactly the inflorescence of Hullett's plant and has flowers that 

 only differ in having the ovary as well as its stipe densely woolly. The Borneo plant 

 (which, by agreement with Mr. Haviland, cannot be described in Herb. Calcutta) 

 has leaves with either solitary or trifoliolate leaflets, when trifoliolate the lateral 

 leaflets are subopposed. 



7. Dalbergia rubiginosa Roxb. 



Eoxburgh says that this has ten stamens ; Wight and Arnott say that usually 

 they have found only nine ; Bentham, too, says there are only nine. The writer 

 has examined very many flowers and has never found fewer than ten, in one bundle ; 



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