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Dalbergia] 



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iixillary panicles with corymbose branches. Pod thin, shining, strap-shaped, 

 li-3 in. long, 1-3-seeded. 



Subhimalayan tract, from Nepal eastward, ascending in Sikkim to 3,000 ft., Assam, 

 Khasi hills, Andamans, Burma. Western Ghats from Kanara southwards. Fl. March- 

 June. Also in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Prain in Journ. As. Soc. 

 vol. 70, 48, restricts D. tamarindifolia to the Eastern region. In the Western Peninsula 

 he recognizes two species, D. acacicBfolia, Dalz., leaflets suhcoriaceous, very oblique, 

 glabrous above, glaucous beneath ; and Z>. malaharica, Prain, leaflets densely tomentose 

 beneath, pod 1^ in., on a slender stalk J in. long. 



15. D. mimosoides, Franchet ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 70, 56. (Z>. Milletti 



Fig. 101. — Dalbergia lanceolaria, Linn., leaf, pod, standard. ^. 



Prain I.e. vol. 66, pt. ii. 446). Khasi hills. Yunnan, Szechuen. Leaflets not oblique, 

 pods 1-2-seeded, thick and rugose opposite the seed. The pod figured in Wight Ic. t. 

 242 is supposed to belong to this species. 16. D. multiflora, Heyne ; Prain in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng., vol. 70, 59. (D. sympathetica Nimmo ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 234.) Deciduous 

 forests of the Western Coast, from the Konkan southwards. Stem armed with large 

 curved spines, branches often twisted. Leaflets 11-15 ovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse 

 or emarginate, thinly grey silky. Pod thin, 2-3 in. long, 1-2-seeded, on a short stalk. 

 17. D. coromandeliana, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 70, 60, Shevagerry hills. A 

 shrub ; branchlets spinous, often curved ; leaflets 7-9, glabrous, J-J in. long. Pod 

 elliptic-oblong, thin 1^ x | in. 



18. D. Melanoxylon, Guill. and Perr. (D. StocJcsii, Benth.) of Senegambia, a small tree 



