114 G. Kmg — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsnta. [No, 1, 
§ 1. Dalbbrgaeia, Pod tliin and flattened except opposite the 
seeds, Sitimeus diadelphous in two lateml phalnnges of 5 filaments oacli. 
1. Balbekoia voltjbilis Roxb. Cor. PI. II, 48 t. 19L A large woody 
climber, 40-60 feet high, with twining glabreacent branches here and 
thei*e thickened and twisted into spiriil books. Lmvas 4—5 in. long, 
leaSets 11-13 obovate, or ovate-ohlong rounded, obtuse or slightly retas© 
faintly mucronulate at apex, dark-greeii above paler beneath, glabroua on. 
both ejarfacea, '75-'l in, long- *o~"75 in, across ; racbis 3-4 in. long and 
petiolules '15 in. long, quite glabrous. Flowers in copious terminal and 
axillary panicles 8-12 in. long with glabroaa peduncles and with 
EUmeroua horizontal or deeurved pnberulous branches 1-3 in. long 
hearing corymbose cymes, nltimato corymbs densely congested ; bracts 
at base of branches of panicle small ovate sobpcrsi^^tent ; pedicels 
slender pnl^jrulous, lower '2 in. long upper very short with a small km- 
ceolate pei-sistent bracteole at base and two small ovate oues embracing 
the lower fifth of calyx- tube. Caly-e- campaunlate, densely pmberulous "1 
in. long, teeth lanceolate lowest exceeding the others. Corolla pale-blue 
'25 in. long, standard broadly orbicular emarginate, roflexed at junction 
of blade and claw. Stamens 10, in two lateral gmupa of 5 each. Pod 
distinctly etalked, linear-oblong obtuse morabranous, 2-^ in. long, 1 in, 
wide; 1-2-seeded. Hort. Beng. 53; Fl. Ind. 111,231; DC. Prodr. II, 
417; Wall. Cat. 5874; W. & A. Prodr. 265; Beuth. in Jouin. Linn. 
Soc. IV,, Suppl. 4(5; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind, II, 235. 
Anpamans ; very common. Distrib. Throughout India and Indo- 
China» 
By an oTersigbt thiB ie denciribsd ia the P. B. I. aa ImTrng ebracteate pedicels ; 
in reulity each pedicel has three peraJsteut braoteoiea, one at its base, two &t its 
apex. 
§ 2. SissOA, Pod thin and flattened except opposite the seeds. 
Stamens raonadelphona. 
2. Dai^dergia conpebtifloba Bijnth. PI, Jungh, 255. k large 
climber with sparsely puberulous, soon glabrescent branches. Leaves 
4r-G in. long, leaflets firm 11-15, oblong obtuse or retuee, green and 
glabrous above paler and sparsely pubernlous beneath, l-Vb in. long, 
•5- 75 in. wide; rachis 3-4 iu. long, glabrous as are the petiolules "2 in. 
long. Flowers rather small in ample terminal and axillary panicles, 3-5 in. 
long, of corymbosely or snbcapitately crowded cynaes; peduncle and 
branches rather densely pubescent ; bi'acts puberulous minute ovate deci- 
duous; solitary bracteoles at base of pedicels also ovate deciduous ; pair 
at base of calyx ovate-lanceolate persistent embracing lower fifth of calyx- 
tube, Galt/x "15 in. long, pubescent, rather narrowly tabular,'teeth short 
obtuse, one- third hs long as tabe except the lower lanceolate half as long 
