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Daibergia. | LEGUMINOSE. 343 
leaves alternate, in 3-5 pairs, elliptical to obovate-oblong, on a 
rather slender 1-2 lin. long petiolule, note -2 in. long, entire, 
thin coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers small, white, or rarely pale rose- 
coloured, on capillary 2 to 3 lin. long pedicels, foumna small 
dichotomous minutely pubescent cymes or cymose panicles in the 
Sek-wuisied at the 1-3 se 
-—Common in all ee aieatiog forests, especially in the upper _— 
savannah and Eng forests, all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down 
Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Mar arch-Apr.; Fr. C. S.—1.—S 
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 aa elastic, but cracky, O’—64 pd. Used for ploughs, 
= handles of dahs a xudes ar in. 
3. D. glauca, Wall: Hf. Ind. Fl. ii. 231.—Ma-da-ma.—A tree 
30—40 + 10—15 + 8—4), shedding leaves during H.S., all parts 
glabrous, the stem usually fluted “and butressed ; bark " hromuaak 
grey, por 14 lin. thick, longitudinally me and minutely fis- 
sured ; + dry, brown ish ; leaves 4-1 ft. long, unpaired-pinnate, 
Salices: leaflets in 3-4 pairs, alternate cbavate to elliptical, on a 
2-3 lin. long petiolule, rounded or more or less retuse with a mucro, 
2-4 in. long, entire, chartaceous, Dahiog, somewhat glaucous 
beneath ; flowers odorous, white, each supported by a broad black 
very deciduous bractlet, on very ‘short but. slender Examen’ 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 
long-clawed ; stamens 9, in a single slit sheath ; ovary glabrous ; 
pods very flat, oblong to linear-oblong, 13-2 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. uent in the upper mixed forests of Pegu; less frequent in those 
of Martaan di down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan.-Feb.; Fr. March-May. —s—l.—Ss. 
4. D, ovata, Grah.; H.f. Ind. Fi. ii. 231,—Ma-damah.—A tree 
(5-354 10 is 1923), , shedding leaves during H.S., all 
quite glabrous; leaves unpaired-pinnate, Tae: 4-3 et ong ; 
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 
