1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosae. 453 



Andamans ; Heifer 1808 ! Dindings ; Curtis ! Pahang ; Ridley ! 

 Perak ; very common. Distrib. Malay Islands. 



Stem 30-80 feet long, branches glabrous. Leaflets 2-3*5 in. long, '75-1 5. in. 

 wide. Calyx ^ in. campanulate, teeth obtuse, upper two connate, lower three sub- 

 equal as long as tube. Corolla white £ in. long, claws of petals short. Stamens 10, 

 monadelphous. Pod "75-2 in. long, *6 in. wide. 



This is one at least of the plants yielding the Kayu-laTcka of commerce. 



31. Dalbergia menoeides Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 120; 

 scandent, spineless, leaflets three, acute large, pod flat. 



Malay Peninsula; Perak, Scortechini 1392 ! 



A wide -twining shrub with twisting black branches. Leaflets usually 3, ovate - 

 lanceolate, tapering to both ends, dark-green and glabrous above, sparsely adpressed- 

 puberulous beneath, 3-3*5 in. long, 1-1*5 in. wide. Flowers very few sessile, clustered 

 at the tips of short puberulous axillary peduncles. Calyx % in. campanulate, teeth 

 short subequal obtuse. Corolla more than twice as long as calyx. Stamens 10, 

 monadelphous. Pod greenish semilunar flat glabrous firm, reticulated throughout, 

 upper suture recurved ; 1*5 in. long, *75 in. wide, 1-seeded ; tip acute stalk rather 

 longer than calyx. 



A very distinct species. 



32. Dalbergia Kunstleri Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 121 ; 

 scandent, spineless, leaflets 7-9 acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, pod 

 turgid. 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, Kunstler ! 



An extensive climber 40-150 feet long, with puberulous branches. Leaflets dark- 

 green above, dull-grey and when young densely pubescent beneath, elliptic-acuminate, 

 4-6 in. long, 2 in. wide, with very prominent midrib and secondary veins beneath. 

 Flowers in axillary panicles, 4-6 in. long, with puberulous branches. Calyx ± in., teeth 

 longer than tube. Corolla £ in., blue ; standard orbicular. Pod finely puberulous, rigid, 

 much thickened throughout, 1-2-seeded, 1*5-2*5 in. long, *9 in. wide, *3 in. thick, 

 short-stalked, dark-brown, almost black when ripe but with grey lines along the 

 sutures due to rupture of the epicarp. 



A fine species very nearly related to D. reniformis, of which it has much the 

 pods. These are, however, larger and thicker as also are the leaflets. The pod is quite 

 indehiscent, but as it ripens the skin cracks along both sutures and a " grey seam " 

 (to which Kunstler alludes in his field-note) is produced by the exposure of the 

 suberous mesocarp along two lines parallel to each suture. Sometimes the pod 

 consists of but one reniform segment ; usually there are two, but the seed in the 

 distal segment rarely matures and the epicarp consequently not giving way, there 

 are usually no " seams " along the sutures of that segment. 



87. PTEROCARPUS Linn. 

 1. Pterocarpus indicus Willd. Sp. PL iii. 904. 



Delete from the synonyms of F. B. I. : — P. dalbergioides Tloxb. Flor. 

 Ind. iii. 236 ; also, P. Wallichii W. fy A. Prodr. 267 : also P. indicus 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 23. 



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