Dalbergia. | LEGUMINOS#. 843 
Has.—Common in all leaf-shedding forests, especially in the upper mixed 
savannah and Eng forests, all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to 
pper Tenasserim.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. C. S.—l.—SS.= wSiS, 5 
ReMARKs.—Sap-wood pale-coloured, turning pale-brown, perishable ; heart- 
wood extremely durable, blackish and ebony-like, sometimes white and red-streak- 
ed, close-grained, rather heavy, elastic, but cracky, O’—64 pd. Used for ploughs, 
bows, handles of dahs and spears. Exudes a red resin. 
3. D. glauca, Wall. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii, 231.—Ma-da-ma.—A tree 
30—40 + 10—15+4+38—4), shedding leaves during H.S., all parts - 
glabrous, the stem usually fluted and butressed ; bark brownish 
grey, about 14 lin. thick, longitudinally striate and minutely fis-~ 
sured; cut dry, brownish; leaves 4-1 ft. long, unpaired-pinnate, 
glabrous; leaflets in 3-4 pairs, alternate, obovate to elliptical, on a 
2-3 lin. long petiolule, rounded or more or less retuse with a mucro, 
2-4 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, somewhat glaucous 
beneath ; flowers odorous, white, each supported by a broad black 
very deciduous bractlet, on very short but slender puberulous pedi- 
cels, cymose, forming an ample glabrous (the extreme branchings 
puberulous) panicle at the end of the branchlets ; calyx 2 lin. long, 
glabrous, the teeth blunt ; corolla 2 lin. long, glabrous, the petals 
ong-clawed ; stamens 9, in a single slit sheath ; ovary glabrous; 
pods very flat, oblong to linear-oblong, 14-2 in, long, narrowed in 
a short stalk, blunt, glabrous, brown or reddish brown, almost 
chartaceous, slightly net-veined at the 1 or 2 seeds. 
Has.—Frequent in the upper mixed forests of Pegu ; less frequent in those 
of Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan.-Feb.; Fr. March-May.—s —l.—SS. 
=SiS. Metam. : 
4. D. ovata, Grah. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 231.—Ma-damah.—A tree 
(25—35 +10—15+42—8), shedding leaves during H.S., all parts 
quite glabrous ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, glabrous, 4-3 ft. long ; 
leaflets alternate, ovate to obovate-oblong, on a 2-3 lin. long petiol- 
ule, acuminate, 2-3 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, a little 
glaucous beneath ; flowers white, odorous, small, each supported by 
