346 LEGUMINOSE. [ Dalbergia. 
Has.- Frequent in mixed dry forests, occasionally entering the drier upper 
mixed forests, from Ava and Prome to Pegu.—Fl. March; Fr. May-June.—l.— 
SS. = CaS. SiS. (?) 
Ks.— Wood white, turning pale-yellowish, strong, compact. Good for 
common house-building. 
9. D, nigrescens, Kz.— Thitsa-nweng.—A leaf-shedding tree (40 
—50+10—25 + 4-6), the shoots tawny pubescent, all softer parts 
turning black in drying ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, the rachis tawny 
pubescent and more or less glabrescent ; leaflets in 3 to 5 pairs with 
an odd one, on a line long pubescent petiolule, elliptical to oblong, 
alternate, 3-1} in. long, rounded or almost retuse, chartaceous, 
glabrous when full grown; flowers small, blue (?), very shortly pedi- 
celled or almost sessile, cymulose and forming dense rusty or tawny 
tomentose panicles at the end of the branches; calyx nearly 14 lin. 
long, densely tawny pubescent, the teeth acute; corolla glabrous, 2 
lin. long, the petals shortly clawed ; stamens united into 2 separate 
sheaths. 
Has.—Frequent in the dry forests, especially the mixed ones, of Prome and 
Ava—l.— SS. = Cas. 
** Climbing or scandent shrubs. 
10. D. volubilis, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 235 ; Brand. For. Fl. 152. 
—A large spreading shrub, usually more or less scandent, all parts 
glabrous; leaves unpaired-pinnate, glabrous, 3-2 ft. long; leaflets 
in 5 to 6 pairs, alternate, elliptically to oval- and obovate-oblong, 
on a slender 2-1 lin. long petiolule, rounded or almost retuse with a 
minute mucro, }-2 in. long or rarely longer, membranous or thin 
chartaceous, entire, glabrous, usually glaucous beneath; flowers pale- 
blue, small, on slender 1-2 lin. long rusty puberulous pedicels, 
cymose and forming a rusty or tawny tomentose spreading panicle 
at the ends of the branchlets; bracts at the insertion of the pedicels, 
small, rusty-tomentose; calyx about a lin. long, puberulous, the 
teeth rather broad and long, rather blunt 3 corolla glabrous, about 
3 lin. long, the petals cuneate at base, the standard broad ; stamens 
10, united into 2 separate sheaths ; ovary pubescent; pods flat, 
oblong, tapering in a short stalk, blunt, thin coriaceous, glabrous, 
brown, slightly net-veined at the usually solitary or rarely 2 seeds. 
Has.—Frequent in all mixed forests, ially the lower ones, all over Burma 
from Chittagong, Ava, and Martaban ge to free Tenasserim.—Fl, Febr.- 
March ; Fr. Apr.-May—1l.—SS.= o. 
11. D, stipulacea, Roxb.; Hf. Ind. Fl. ii. 237.—Douk-ta- 
loung-nway.—A large climbing shrub, the stems 2-4 in. thick, the 
young shoots more or less puberulous ; bark brownish grey, longi- 
tudinally fissur d, fibrous; leaves unpaired-pinnate, 4-3 in. long, 
the young rachis usually puberulous ; leaflets in 8 to 10 pairs, 
