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Coromandel. Kennéry jungles. Nagotnah Hills. Guzerat, 
Assam. Forests of North India, Flowering in the hot season, 
The timber is strotig but hot very durable. 
(2) D. ramivorra. (Roxd.). 
Ident. W.&. A. prod: I. p. 264.—-Roxb. fl. Ind. IIT. p, 221, 
Dec. prod. Il. p. 416. . 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. II. t. 113.—Wight’s Teon. t. 1156. 
Srzc. Cuan. Tree: leaflets 3-7, usually 5, alternate, otbidular, 
emarginate, glabrous above, pubescent when young beneath: pani+ 
eles branched and divaricating: calyx-segments oblong, more or 
less obtuse: stamens 9 (or 16?) united into a sheath open on the 
upper side: style slender: stigma small: legume. stalked, oblong- 
lanceolate, usually 1-seeded: flowers on short pedicels, small, white, 
Circar mountains. South Concan and Travangore. Khasia 
mountains. Assam. Flowering in the hot season. This yields 
the blackwood of commerce. It is a close-gtained heavy timber, 
admitting of the finest polish and universally employed for making 
farniture. On thé coasts of Cordinandel and Malabar the tree grows 
to a immense size. 
(3) D. stssootpes. (Girah.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I pi 265. 
Spec. Cuan. Tree? leaflets 5-7, rereninpellipuccoret) short« 
ly and bluntly acuminated :, panicles branched, lax, about half the 
Jength of the leaves: flowers on short pedicéls: calyx-se¢menits oval, 
obtuse : stamens 9, united into a sheath openiig on the upper side’: 
ovary stalked, 4-5-ovuled: style straight: stigma small, 
Neilgherries. Courtallum. 
(4) Dz gupieinosa. (Roxd.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 265.—Roxb. fl. Ind. LIT. p. 931.-< 
Det. prod. IT. p. 416. : 
Engrav. Roxb. Cog. Il. t. 115. 
Spec. Coat. Trunk woody, climbing: leaflets 5-7, alternate; 
oblong or oval, obtuse or retuse, with numerous fine diverging ‘pas 
rallel veins, when young slightly ;pubescent beneath, afterwards 
glabrous: petioles and ‘aba pubescent: racemes fascicled, 
compound, short: pedivels very short: éalyst pubescent, 5-cleft: 
segments oblong, obtuse: stamens 9-10, united into a sheath open 
on tle upper side: ovary glabrous: style slender; stigina sitiall. 
Circa? mouitains, 
