120 Q, King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Fenimula. [Wo. 1, 
leaves with solitary or trifoliolate lealleta; when trifoliolate tho lateral leaflets arc 
snbopposlte. It. tlma approaches moat nerirly to D. pteudo-sissoo which alBO iiaa 
flowers 8imi]ar to those of D. HtdUttii and of Haviland's species from Borueo. 
§ 3. SELEKoriOBiUM, Pod thickened tlirouglioiit upper Buture, re- 
carved at least wliile yoang. 
9. Dalbergia tobta Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5873, An unarmed 
littoral climber with twining glabrescent branches often twisted into 
spiral hooks. Leaves 3 in, long, leaflets 5 {very rarely 7 or 3), obovate- 
oblong ohtuso Boraetinies emarginate, dark-green and glabrous aboTe 
paler and spariugly adpreafied-puberuloua beneath, 'Q-'B in. long» ■4-'6 
in. wide ; rachia 2 in. long glahroua as ars the petiolales *1 in. long. 
Flowers in aessilo congested axillary panicles, 1-2 in. long, with yery 
slightly puberuloua branches, bracts small ovate- lanceolate persistent; 
pedicels very short witli a small ovate-lanceolate bmcteole at the base 
and with two lai-ger ovate bracteoles nnder the calyx embracing lower 
third of il-s tnbe. Gahjx gl abres cent, wide -cam panni ate, 15 in. long, 
teeth sliort, wide-triangnlai*, obtuse. GoroUa white, '25 in, long, clawa 
of petals as long as calyx-tube. Siamens 10 monadelplions. Pod browq 
flat glabrous, "9 in. long, '5 in, wide, npper sufcnre recurved, rather 
thick' walled throughoiifj 1-seeded; stalk aa long as calyx, D. monos- 
perma Dalz. in Hook. Jonrn. Bot, II, 36 \ Benth, in Jonrn, Linn, Soc. 
IV, Suppl, 48; Miq. Flor, Ind. Bat. I, 132; Bak. in Flor, Brit. Ind. 
II, 237. 
Akdamans ; very common on all the coasts of the main gronp ; 
Narcondanij Frain ! Penang; WalUck 5873! Ourfia 220 ! Lang kawt ; 
Curtis 2868 I Perak ; coast at Matong, ScortecUm 1099 ! Wray 2502 I 
Malacca; at Tanjong Kling, Eklleij 3312! Singapore; gi-owing in salt 
water, iCtms/ier 66 I Kv3,Bg\, Bidlejf 5576! T. Anderson I Kurz I Distrtb. 
Western coasts of India; Stindribuns ; Burma; Borneo; New Guinea; 
China. 
A purely littoral species. The citation of Wall, CaL 5879 by Dr, Miqaol and 
Wr. Baker for this species is duo to their Viavicig copied the statement from 
Jlr. Bentltam. By an uucorrected printer's error Mr, Bentham is made jn the dea- 
criptiou to qnoto this number, though in tho notice of localities the number 5873 
is oorreotly girou. 
10. Dalbekgia MENOEiDES Frain. An unarmed climber with 
glabrous, twining, hooked bmnches. Leaves 5 in. long, leaflets 3, ovate 
lanceolate tapering to both ends, dark-green and glabrous above, paler 
and sparsely ad press ed-pubern Ions beneath, 3-3*5 in. long^ 1--1"5 in, 
wide; rachia 15 in, long, glabrous, petiolules '08 in. puberulona. 
Flowers very few, sessile, clustered at tips of short pubernlons axillary 
peduncles •15--25 in. long, each with two ovate bx-acteoles embracing 
lower fourth of calyx- tube, CalyfX campanulat^, externally sparingly 
