.] L. LEQUMiNOsa:. (J. G. Baker.) 161 



1. O. dalberg'loldes, Smth. PL Jvmgh. 216 ; Sedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 36 ; Brand. 

 For. Flov. 146, t. 23. Dalbergia ougeinensis, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 53 : Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 220 ; TFaU. Cat. 5851 ; Wight Ic. t. 391. 



Hilly tracts of Nobtheen India and Concan, ascending to 4000 ft. in Kumaon. 

 An erect tree, 20-40 ft. high, with slender terete grey branches. Leaves distinctly 

 petioled, pinnately 3-foliolate, stipellate ; leaflets rigidly coriaceous, glabrous or downy 

 below ; end leaflet roundish or obo vate, 3-6 in. long, obtuse, entire or obscurely crenate ; 

 side ones smaller, opposite, oblique. Flowers very copious, in short fascicled racemes, 

 from the nodes of old branches ; pedicels ^ in., filiform, downy or glabrous. Cak/x 

 l^-J in.; teeth obtuse. Cbroifa whitish or pale rose. Pod 2-S in. long; joints 2-3 

 times as long as broad. 



50. DESaKODZVZO;, BesT. 



Shrubs or herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate or simple, stipellate. Flowers small, 

 red, in copious usually dense racemes. Calyx campamdate or turbinate ; teeth 

 longer or shorter than the tube, the two upper often suboomiate. Corolla ex- 

 serted ; standard broad ; wings more or less adhering to the usually obtuse keel. 

 Upper stemen entirely or partially free, the other 9 united. Ovary sessile or 

 stipitate, few- or many-ovuled ; style incurved, stigma minute capitate. Pod 

 usually composed of several one-seeded indehiscent joints, the faces compressed, 

 never muricated, the upper suture rarely finally splitting open. — Distrib. Spe- 

 cies about 120 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics and several in the Oape and North 

 America. 



D. CAJANIFOLITIM, DC Frodr. ii. 331 (Hedysarum cajanifolium, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 

 t. 528. H. mucronatum, Blume ; Walp. Sep. i. 746) a species widely spread in tropical 

 America, has been introduced in Ceylon, and is included in Wallich's distribution from 

 the Calcutta Garden as D. leptostachyum. Wall. Cat. 5697 A. 



Oemithoitjs PEnnjsnxTis is in Schmidt's Nilghiry collection, no doubt accidentally 

 introduced. 



Aeachis htpogjea is frequently cultivated, but has no claim to be regarded as 

 a native. 



SiTBGEN. 1. Dendrolobiuxn, W. 8r A. Shrubs with woody branches, 3- 

 foliolate leaves, flowers in dense short-peduncled or sessile axillary umbels, 

 minute deciduous bracts. 



1. D, umbellatum, DC. Frodr. ii. 325 ; branches terete, leaflets obtuse 

 1-1^ times as long as broad, joints of pod large 1^2 times as long as broad. 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 224 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, 87 ; Wall. Cat. 5687 ; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 66. Dendrolobium umbellatum, Bemth. PL Jung. 218. Hedysarum mn- 

 beUattmi, Linn. Sp. 1053 ; Jacq. Hort. Snhoen. t. 297, non Roxh. H. arboreum, 

 Boxb. FL Lnd. iii. S60.—Burm. ZeyL t. 51. 



Tropical zone ; AvA, Tei^asseeim, Pejtang, Malacca, Ceyion. — ^Disteib. Mascaren 

 isles, Malaya, Philippines, Polynesia. 



A shrub, 6-6 ft. high, with densely downy young branches. Petioles 1 in. or less, 

 slightly furrowed ; leaflets subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, thinly grey-canes- 

 cent or nearly glabrescent beneath, the veins not much raised ; end one larger than side 

 ones, roundish or broad-oblong, 2-3 in. long. Umbels 6-12-flowered ; pedicels short, 

 unequal. Calyx §■ in. densely silky ; teeth shorter than or as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla |-i in. Pod li-2in. long ; joints 4-5, thick, glabrescent or silky, i-| in. long, 

 indented at both sutures. 



2. D. Cephalotes, Wall. Cat. 5721 ; branches triquetrous, leaflets acutu 

 2-3 times as long as broad, joints of pod small as long as broad. W. ^ A.. 



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