446 D. Pram — Some additional Leguminosre. [No. 2, 



by Collett and Hemsley as possibly the same has larger flowers, and proves on examin- 

 ation to be a Dalbergaria not a Sissoa. Its foliage is, indeed, remarkably like that of 

 D. Collettii f but its leaflets are fewer and the tomentum is rusty not grey. 



13. Dalbergia Melanoxylon Guill. fy Perr., Fl. Senegal, 227, t. 53. 

 (D. Stocksii Benth.). 



This is more often planted than wild in the Concan and Canara ; it goes there, 

 according to a note in the Herbarium of Mr. Talbot, which has been kindly lent for 

 study by its owner, under the name of " Chinese Blackwood." Mr. Bentham has 

 described the stamens of D. Melanoxylon as being 10 in number and isadelphous, i.e., 

 in 2 bundles of 5 each. But he quotes the species described and figured by 

 Guillemin and Perrottet, loc. cit., as the plant he intends, in spite of these authors 

 having described as either 9- or 10-stamened, the stamens being monadelphous 

 with the central (vexillary) one rather longer than the others and rather more 

 separated at the top from the lateral groups than the members of these groups are 

 from each other; the figure, too, that Mr. Bentham cites, instead of showing 10 

 stamens in 2 bundles shows 9 in one bundle, the central one longer than the rest and 

 according in other respects with the description. The description and figure referred 

 to agree absolutely with the characters of Mr. Bentham's D. Stocksii, our present 

 plant ; after analysing flowers from every example, whether African or Indian, in 

 Herb. Calcutta, the writer is convinced that whatever D. Melanoxylon Benth. (Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 47) may be, the true D. Melanoxylon Guill. & Perr. and D. Stocksii 

 Bth. are one species. 



14. Dalbergia sympathetica Nimmo. 



In the Calcutta Herbarium, Wall. Cat. 5848B. (from Herb. Heyne) is also this 

 species. 



14&. Dalburgia subsympathetica Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 

 2.116; scandeat, leaflets 9-15, oblong truncate, thinly grey-pnbesceiifc 

 beneath, flowers in small axillary panicles with dense corymbose 

 branches, pod thin greenish oblong-, 1-2-seeded not veined opposite 

 the seeds, distinctly stalked. Amerimnon subsympatheticum Pram 

 MSS. 



Penang ; Curtis! Perak, very common. Singapore; Hullett ! 

 Branches often twisted, the young ones finely grey-downy. Leaves 15-3 in. 

 long; leaflets moderately firm; thinly adpressed-pubescent beneath. Panicles 

 distinctly peduncled with finely pubescent ascending curved branches, the ultimate 

 branchlets secund. Calyx -jL i n>j pubescent, with 2 small obtuse bracteoles at base, 

 teeth short obtuse except the lowest lanceolate. Corolla twice the calyx, petal - 

 claws short, standard narrow, white. Stamens 9 monadelphous. Ovary glabrous 

 except along the lower suture. Pod thin membranous greenish glabrous, 2'5 in. long, 

 1 in. wide, 1-seeded, slightly cuneate at base and distinctly stalked. 



Very nearly related to D. Junghuhuii and only differing by its much smaller 

 leaflets and rather longer flowers which are arranged in smaller more numerous 

 panicles. Also exceedingly like D. sympathetica from which it differs in its glabrous 

 ovary, distinctly stalked pods and usually fewer leaflets not silky beneath. 



14c. Dalbergia Milletti Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 34; 

 scandent, leaflets 25-35, glabrous, crowded, linear-oblong obtuse or 



