1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosee. 445 



The question has been raised whether this is the lost D. parvijlora Koxb. The 

 larger number of leaflets seems to the writer to be a fatal objection. This objection 

 does not perhaps, apply so strongly to typical D. Junghuhnii, but there is another strong 

 objection in the shape of the pods, which are described as falcate in D. parvijlora ; 

 this character makes it certain, in the writer's opinion, that, in spite of the great 

 authority of Mr. Bentham and Mr. Baker, the lost D. parvijlora is to be sought for in 

 the section Selenolobium Bth. (the genus Drepanocarpus E. Mey.) and not in the 

 section Sissoa at all. To the objection that D. parvijlora has monadelphous stamens 

 whereas the F. B. I. defines the section Selenolobium as having the stamens in two 

 bundles of 5 each, it may be answered that this definition is due to an oversight and 

 does not accord with reality, for D. torta (D. monosperma,) which is the type of 

 the section, has, as Mr. Bentham quite correctly says, only monadelphous stamens. 



11. Dalbergia cqnfertiflora Benth. D. rubiginosa Kurz y Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 2. 281 not of Roxb. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Chittagong ; Lister ! King's Collec- 

 tor ! Burma ; Kurz ! Andamans ; very common. 



The writer has seen no specimen from Oudh. There are in Herb. Calcutta two 

 from the Concan that profess to belong to this species ; one comes from Herb. hid. 

 Or. H. f. 8f T. the other from Herb. Dalzell. Both are D. volubilis. 



12. Dalbergia velutina Benth. 



Var. Maingayi Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 117 ; leaves 

 ultimately glabrescent beneath, twigs almost black. 



Mergui; Griffith! Malacca; Maingayi Singapore; Ridley I 



126. Dalbergia Collettii Prain; a tree, leaflets 9-15, ovate with 

 rounded tip or ovate-lanceolate with blunt tip, puberulous above, pu- 

 bescent beneath, flowers minute in ample terminal panicles with rather 

 lax cymose branches, pedicels and petal-claws very short, pod lanceolate 

 1-2-seeded with very long stalk and long narrow tapering point. Dal- 

 bergia sp. Coll. Sf Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 50. Amerimnon 

 Collettii Prain MSS. 



Burma ; Shan Hills at 4000-5000 f fc. ; Ywangen, Collett 723 ! Lwe- 

 kaw, King's Collectors ! 



A tree 25-30 feet high, branches grey-downy. Leaves grey-puberulous above, 

 persistently rather densely pubescent beneath, leaflets 1*25-2 in. long, "5-1 in. wide, 

 rather firm, reticulately veined, stipules small. Panicles short-peduncled, peduncles 

 and branches densely pubescent, 1*5 in. long, 1 in. broad, the ultimate branchlets 

 forming scorpioid cymes. Calyx pubescent T \j in. ; teeth short-triangular. Corolla 

 £ in. Pod firm, reticulate-veined, 2-3 in. long, "5 in. wide, 1-2-seeded, stalk £ in. 

 long, point narrowed to an acute tip. 



A very distinct species with flowers as in D. Junghuhnii, fruits rather like those 

 of D. lanceolaria, and leaves a little like those of D. velutina with which Sir H. 

 Collett and Mr. Hemsley have compared it. It has, however, very much smaller 

 and very different flowers and stipules. The collectors of the Calcutta Herbarium 

 have recently brought in an abundant supply of fruiting specimens so that a de- 

 scription of the species can now be given. The specimen in young fruit mentioned 



