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alternate, from oblong to obovate-oblong, on a slender a line long 
petiolule, more or less retuse, rounded at the base, 1-2 in. long, 
entire, thin chartaceous, while young minutely appressed. pubescent 
beneath, turning soon glabrous and somewhat glaucescent ; flowers 
_ small, pale-blue, each supported by a pair of lanceolate bractlets a 
ine long, on 14 to 2 lin. long slender puberulous pedicels, racemose 
and forming peduncled slightly pubescent cymes arising latera 
from the young shoots or above the scars of the fallen leaves; 
bracts rather persistent, about as long as the pedicels, lanceolate ; 
calyx glabrous, about 14 lin. long, the teeth blunt, those in front 
acute ; corolla glabrous, about 3 lin. long, the standard broad, the 
petals shortly and broadly clawed; stamens 10, united into 2 
separate sheaths; ovary glabrous; pods elongate-oblong, 2-3 in. 
long, blunt, contracted in a short stalk, coriaceous, glabrous, brown, 
1 or rarely 2-seeded, the unripe ones flat and veined at the seeds, 
the full-grown ones somewhat medullary-thickened with the veina- 
tion furrowed-immersed. 
B.—Common all over Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim, occurring 
not only in the mixed and tropical forests, but ascending also into the drier hill 
forests, up to 3,500 ft. elevation.—Fl. Jan.-Febr.; Fr. C.S.—s: 1—SS.= a 
12. D. foliacea, Wall. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 232.— A large scandent 
shrub, all parts glabrous, or the young shoots slightly pubescent ; 
leaves unpaired-pinnate, 4-4 ft. long ; leaflets in 2-3 pairs, alternate, 
obovate to elliptically-oblong, on an 1 to 14 lin. long petiolule, 
usually mucronate, 14-2 in, long, entire, chartaceous, 
glabrous, or while young shortly appressed puberulous beneath ; 
flowers small, almost sessile, supported by a pair of small bractlets, 
cymose and forming an ample minutely puberulous glabrescent 
panicle at the end of the branchlets ; calyx minutely puberulous, 2 
lin. long, the teeth rather long, buntish ; corolla glabrous, about 2 
lin. long, the petals long-clawed ; stamens 9, united into a single 
slit sheath ; ovary glabrous; pods 1-2-seeded, flat, oblong to 
elongate-oblong, acute or blunt, tapering in a short stalk, 14-3 in. 
— glabrous, brown, thin coriaceous, runcinnate-veined at the 
seeds, 
Has.—Not unfrequent along choungs in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu 
Yomah and Martaban down to Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan.-Febr. ; Fr. C.S.— 
8: 1—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
13. D.rubiginosa, Roxb.; Hf. Ind. Fi. ii. 232.—A large 
scandent shrub, the very young branchlets shortly tawny pubescent; 
leaves unpaired-pinnate, 24-3 in. long, the is glabrous ; leaflets 
in 3 to 5 pairs with an odd one, alternate, obovate to obovate-oblong, 
rounded or emarginate, on a line long slender petiolule, about an in. 
long, entire, thinly but rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, much net-veined ; 
flowers small, white, on very short puberulous pedicels, racemose 
