Dalbeegta.] LEGTJMmOSM. 26a 



' than the leaves :_the pods are larger, flat and somewhat incurved, and 

 \ the valves are thinner ; the more numerous seeds are compressed, and are 



hlack or of a light hrown colour. 

 Dehra Dun. Distrib. Outer Himalaya from Kumaon to Sikkim, Chitta- 



gong, Burma, Andaman Islands, Ceylon, Malay Penins. and Islands ; 



also in S. Africa. Flowers in Aug. and Sep. 



42. DALBERGIA^ Linn. f. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 230. 



Trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate, with alternate sub- 

 coriaceous leaflets. Flowers copious, small, in terminal or lateral 

 panicles. Calyx campannlate ; teeth 5, distinct, usually short. Corolla 

 exserted ; standara broad ; heel obtuse, with its petals joined only at 

 the tip. Stamens 9-10, 1-adelphous, or 2-adelphous ; anthers minute, 

 terminal, basifised, with the cells back to back^ and the slit mostly 

 short and apical. Ovary stalked, few-ovuled ; style short, incurved ; 

 glabrous, stigma ca itate. IPod oblong or strap-shaped, usually thin 

 and flat, 1-4'seeded, indehiseent, not thickened oi winged at the 

 sutures. — Species 60-70, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Stamens 9, in one bundle. Large trees. 

 Leaflets obtuse or emarginate, flowers distinctly 



stalked , l.B. latifolia. 



Leaflets acuminate, flowers nearly sessile. . 2 D. Sissoo. 



Stamens 10, in two bundles of 5 each. 



Trees. 



Eacemes in large lax terminal and axillary 



panicles with spreading branches. . 3 D. lanceolaria 



Eacemes in compact terminal panicles . 4. D. paniculata. 

 Eacemes in compact axillary panicles, 



leaflets hairy on both surfaces. . . 5. D. sericea. 



A climber, flowers in compact pubescent 



panicles . . . . 6. D. volubilis, 



1. D. latifoHa, Eoxh. Cor. PI. ii, 7, t 113 ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 221 ; W. ^ A. 



Prod. 264 ; D. ^- G. Bomh. Fl. 77 ; Brand. For. Fl. US ; F. B. I. ii, 231 ; 



Watt E. D. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXX, part. 2, 41.—Vevn. 



Sitsdl, shisham. (Blackwood or Eosewood of S. India.) 



A large erect deciduous tree, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 4-6 in. long. 

 3-7-foHolate_, rachis straight ; leaflets l|-2^ in. long, on long stalks, 

 broadly elliptic, orbicular or elliptic-obovate, chtnse and sometimes 

 emarginate, cuneate at the base, often glaucous beneath. Floivers 

 whitish, in lax axillary panicles, which are shorter than the leaves, pedi- 

 ceisaslongas the calyx. Calyx-teeth, obtnse, shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla twice the calyx. Stamens 9. Pod oblong-lanceolate, 1-4-seeded. 



