450 D. Plain — Some additional Legumii:osse. [No. 2, 



also the case at Calcutta. But in London Mr. Baker finds that D. robusta Wall. (Cat. 

 5849 A) is D. lanceolaria, whereas at Calcutta it is D. hircina. In neither case, 

 however, is it Roxburgh's D. robusta ; Dr. Roxburgh's species is a Derris. 



236. Dalbergia Hemsleyi Prain ; a tree, leaflets 5-7 ovate-obtuse, 

 ferrugineo-pubescent, flowers in peduncled axillary lax few-fld. panicles, 

 pedicels longer than calyx, petal-claws medium, pod 1-3-seeded rather 

 thickened and veined opposite the seeds. Amerimnum Hemsleyi Prain 



MSS. 



Burma ; Shan Hills, at Fort Stedman, Collett 682 ! Myingyan, 

 Prazer ! Indine, King's Collector ! 



Branches pedicels and leaves especially on the underside at first densely clothed 

 with dark-brown tomentum. Leaves 4 in. long, leaflets usually 5, 1*5 in. long, *75 

 in. wide, firm, dull beneath, stipules small deciduous. Panicle about as long as 

 leaves, branches densely brown-pubescent spreading, each 3-4-fld., pedicels '25 in. 

 Calyx £ in., lower tooth little exceeding the rest. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod 

 25-4 in. long, *8 in. wide, very like that of D. lanceolaria. 



A very distinct species compared by Sir H. Collett and Mr. Hemsley with D. 

 CoUettii, but differing from that species in its larger flowers with 2-adelphous stamens 

 and its rather larger and broader pods, also in its fewer leaflets with rusty-grey 

 pubescence. 



24. Dalbergia cana Grah. 



This is described as a climber in the F. B. I. Mr. Kurz, who collected specimens 

 that agree absolutely with Wall. Cat 5859, has pointed out that it is a tree. The 

 native name, Mr. Kurz notes on his specimens, is Toun-kassoh. The specimen of 

 Wall. Cat. 5869 (which ought to be D. 'purpurea) that is preserved in Herb. Calcutta 

 belongs to this species. 



246. Dalbergia Kurzii Prain; a tree; leaflets 15-19 abruptly 

 bluntly acuminate, flowers in long axillary panicles with corymbose 

 branch lets, pedicels ebracteate as long as the calyx, calyx-teeth shorter 

 than the tube, pod flat firm oblong-oblanceolate, tapering to a pubes- 

 cent stalk, elsewhere glabrous, brown, thickened and obscurely veined 

 opposite the seed. D. purpurea Kurz, Joum As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 2. 279 

 (excl. cit. Wall. Cat. 5869) ; For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 344, not of Wall. 



Burma ; Pegu, Maclelland (n. 8 in Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $r T.) ! 

 Brandis 1170! Kurz 1780! 1783! 2603! 2608! Kalay Hills, Prazer ! 

 Shan Hills, Alpin ! 



Branches, leaf-rachises and leaves beneath glabrous. Leaves 9-18 in. long, 

 leaflets rigidly subcoriaceous 2-4 in. long, tapering to base, obovate abruptly bluntly 

 acuminate rarely obtuse at tip, veinlets rather raised on lower surfaces. Panicles 

 sparse appearing before the leaves, the branches finely brown-silky. Calyx purple, 

 minutely puberulous, teeth lanceolate-deltoid. Corolla twice the calyx, white or 

 pale-rose. Pod 3-3'5 in. long, 1*25 in. wide. 



This plant is the Thit-poh of the Burmese, the Dalbergia purpurea of all Mr. 

 Kurz's writings. From the description it will be particularly obvious that it is not 

 at all nearly related to I), lanceolaria and therefore cannot be the D. purpurea 



