228 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 4, 



Racemes very slender and usually shorter than the leaves, sessile or branched from the 

 base ; pod-joints 4 lin. long by 1\ broad, more or less indented at the lower suture, 

 sparingly and shortly hirsute ; branches angular, I). lcarensium. 



Racemes sessile or nearly so, robust, usually axillary or panicled by the fall of the 

 leaves ; pod-joints 4 lin. long by 1\ broad, grey-villous, much indented at the 



lower suture ; branchlets rather terete, D. confertum. 



Bracts of the young inflorescence narrow, herbaceous, not 

 conspicuous and imbricating (C'atenaria, Bth.). 



Flowers \ in. long, often in axillary slender racemes ; pod-joints oblong, nearly 4 lin. 

 long, densely and shortly hooked-hairy, the basal one stalked, . . . .D. laburnifolium. 

 Subgen. 4. Pteroloma, Desv. Shrubs. Leaves 1-foliolate, the petiole winged. 



Bracts minute. Pods very fiat, many-jointed, the joints not or hardly indented 



and almost square. 



Branchlets sharply triquetrous ; pods glabrous or pubescent along the sutures or all 

 over, -£•• triquetrum. 



* * Flowers clustered or in sessile or peduncle d umbels in the axils 



of the leaves or in the axils of bract-like floral leaves. 

 Subgen. 5. Denclrolobium, ¥A. Flowers in dense sessile or peduncled axillary 

 umbels or clusters. Bracts niimite or deciduous. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Pods 

 5 — l -jointed, appressed pubescent. 



* Pods normally 2 — l-jointed. Under shrubs. (Dicerma). 



Flowers by 2 — 4 or fewer clustered in the leaf-axils and passing into terminal leafy 

 racemes -^- biarticulatum. 



* * Pods 2 — 5-{only occasionally 1-) jointed. Shrubs or trees (Dendrolobium 



proper). 



Flowers in sessile clusters ; pod-joints only 2 lin. long, P. cephalotes. 



Flowers in peduncled umbels ; pod-joints about 4 lin. long, I), tvrribellatvm. 



Subgen. 6. Phyllodium, Desv. Flowers clustered or umbellate, in the axils of 

 bract-like large floral leaves which are complicately 2-foliolate, persistent, and placed 

 distichously. Leaves pinnately 3- or rarely 1-foliolate. Pods 2 — 4-jointed. 



* Pods pubescent or villous-pnibescent. 



Leaflets 3 — 5 in. long, acuminate ; pods villously pubescent, P. grande. 



Leaflets 1 — 2 in. long, rounded or almost refuse, D. vestitum. 



* * Pods glabrous except on the margin. 



Leaves pinnately 3- or occasionally 1-foliolate, the petiole only 2 — 3 lin. long ; pods 

 glabrous, net-veined, P. pulchellupi . 



1. D. gyboides, DC. Prod. II. 326 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 475 (Z>. 

 pseudo-oroides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 244). 



Hab. Frequent in the mixed forests, especially the upper ones, 

 chiefly in the stony bed of streams, all over Burma, from Arracan, Pegu, and 

 Martaban down to Tenasserim. — Fl. Close of BS. ; Fr. CS. 



2. D. gtrans, DC. Prod. II. 336 ; Wight Icon. t. 294 ; Hf. Iud. 

 Fl. II- 174 {Kedysarum gyrans, Lamk. Suppl. 332 ; Jacq. Icon. rar. t, 

 562; Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 317). 



Hab. Common in all leaf-shedding forests, but more especially in the 

 savannahs, in grassland and amongst shrubbery of the plains, ascending into 

 the drier hill-forests and hill-pastures iip to 4000 ft. elevation, all over 

 Burmah, from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim. — Fl. Fr. CS. 



