Dalbergia. } LEGUMINOSZ. 341 
ovary pubescent; pods flat, elongate-oblong and often falcate, 
narrowed at the base, 1-4 in. long, acuminate, sinuate to almost 
moniliform-constricted between the 1-4 seeds, narrowly winged 
along the vexillar suture only. 
Haz.—Not unfrequent in the beach and tidal forests of Pegu and Tenas- 
serim.—Fr. Nov.-Dec.—l.—SS.—=All. Aren. Sal. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fr. March. 
DALBERGIA, L. : 
with one or few ovules; style incurved, with a terminal 
- Pod thin and flat, obiong to linear-oblong or rarely fal- 
cate, indehiscent, the thin margins all wing-like expanded or 
rarely thickened. Seeds solitary or few and remote, very flat and 
reniform.—Trees or shrubs, often climbing, with unpaired-pinnate 
leaves, the leaflets usually alternate and without stipulets. Flowers 
small, in axillary or terminal dichotomous cymes or irregular 
panicles. Bracts and bractlets usually minute. 
* Erect shrubs or trees. 
© Stamens united into a single slit sheath ; flowers white. 
X Bractlets fallen before the expansion of the flowers. _ 
Leaflets 3-7, almost orbicular to obovate, notched or blunt ; all 
rous . - . . . . - . . “D: latifolia, 
Leaflets 7-11, more or less oblong, notched or blunt . . D, cultrata. 
Bractl black, short and broad, deciduous, but 
Leaflets blunt or more or Meeckched with a mucro = : . D. glauea. 
Leafiets acuminate ‘ : = : Pee cae - D. ovata. 
O © Stamens united into 2 separate sheaths; flowers 
Ww) or 2. 
X Pods velvety ; flowers purple wo ee 6 2 es One 
