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.—lL— 
SS. = CaS. SiS. (?) 
EMARKS.— Wood white, turning pale-yellowish, strong, eompact. Good for 
common house-building. 
9. D. nigrescens, Kz.—TZhitsa-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 8 to 5 pairs with 
an odd one, on a line long pubescent petiolule, elliptical to oblong, 
alternate, 4-14 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 13 lin. 
long, densely tawny pubescent, the teeth acute; corolla glabrous, 2 
lin. long, the petals shortly clawed ; stamens united into 2 separate 
sheaths. 5 
Has.—Frequent in the dry forests, especially the mixed ones, of Prome and 
Ava—l— 8S. = Cas. 
** Climbing or scandent shrubs. 
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; 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. 
Hasz.— Frequent in all mixed forests, ially the lower ones, all over Burma 
from Chiltdooe, Ava, and Martaban ae ee Sieck Temaserenal Febr.- 
March ; Fr. Apr.-May—1L—SS. = o. 
11. D, stipulacea, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii, 237.—Douk-ta- 
Fe Bade 9 large climbing shrub, the stems 2-4 in. thick, the 
ya re or berulous i 7 
berulous ; leaflets in 8 to 10 pairs, 
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