1897.] D. Prain — Some additional hegwmmoses. 451 



described by Mr. Bentham. The origin of the discrepancy lies in the Wallichian 

 mixture of specimens referred to under D. purpurea, — the sheets examined by Mr. 

 Bentham and Mr. Baker exhibiting a plant nearly related to D. lanceolaria, whereas 

 the one examined by Mr. Kurz is D. cana, a species with flowers so like those of D. 

 Kurzii that they are only to be distinguished by their purple instead of white petals. 

 The writer was at first inclined to think indeed that D. Kurzii was no more than a 

 variety of D. cana, the differences of foliage and especially of fruit appear however 

 to be quite constant. Mr. Kurz seems to have been quite aware, as a reference 

 to his note in J. A. S. B. xlv. 2. 279 shows, that Dr. Wallich had here two plants 

 under one number, since he quotes Mr. Bentham's reference to D. purpurea, ' in part' 

 only. But obviously, as Mr. Bentham had access to the type specimen of 5869, 

 while Mr. Kurz had no more than a distributed one before him, it was to the plant 

 described by Mr. Bentham and not to his own quite different one that Mr. Kurz 

 should have confined the name D. purpurea. But Mr. Kurz had already obscured 

 the issue by identifying the real D. purpurea with D. paniculata, an identification 

 which led him further into giving a description of the true B. paniculata under 

 the name D. r. : grescens. 



25. Dalbergia stipclacea Uoxb. 



Mr. Baker describes this as ' scandent,' Dr. Roxburgh says it is ' shrubby.' 

 Both descriptions are accurate ; in open land or along streams it is a shrub or small 

 bushy tree reaching 20 feet or more in height. In the interior of forests it is a fairly 

 strong climber. 



25&. Dalbergia Wattii Clarke, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 17. t. 5 ; a 

 spreading tree; leaflets 9-11, glabrescent lanceolate -acute, flowers in 

 small axillary panicles with racemose branches, pedicels longer than the 

 calyx with conspicuous persistent bracts and bracteoles, calyx-teeth 

 shorter than the tube, pod glabrous short-stalked veined opposite the 

 seed. Amerimnum Wattii Prain MSS. 



Manipur ; Meitaphum, 5000 feet, Watt 6830 ! Mayung, 3500 feet, 

 Clarke 42034! 



Branches glabrous. Leaflets subopposite 2*5-3 in. long, slightly pilose beneath. 

 Calyx puberulous £ in. Corolla twice as long as calyx, standard orbicular emarginate. 

 Pod 2*25 in. long, '75 in. wide, 1-seeded. 



A very distinct species closely related to D. stipulacea but without the marked 

 thickening of pod opposite the seed and with very acute leaflets that are almost 

 opposite. 



25c. Dalbergia Oliveri Gamble MSS.; a tree; leaflets 10-15, 

 oblong-obtuse emarginate (acute when young) glabrous, flowers in 

 copious spreading terminal panicles with racemose pubescent branches, 

 pedicels about as long as calyx with conspicuous bracts and ultimately 

 deciduous bracteoles, calyx-teeth short, the two uppermost rounded, the 

 rest acute, the lowest longest, all glabrous except the ciliate edges, pod 

 1-2-seeded narrowed at base into a slender stalk, acute at tip, promi- 

 nently veined and thickened opposite the seed. Amerimuum Oliveri 

 Gamble MSS. 



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