Fleming ia.] 
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spike like racemes sessile in the axils. Bracts lanceolate, silky-hairy, very 
deciduous. Calyx silky-pubescent, about 2 lines long, the upper lobe rather 
longer than the tube, the lowest still longer. Petals shortly exceeding the calyx ; 
standard ovate, obtuse ; keel nearly straight, obtuse. Pod 4 to 5 lines long, not 
3 lines broad. 
Hab.: Shoal Bay Passage, R. Brown ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, Burdekin River, Bowman ; 
Port Denison, Dallachy ; Lynedoch Valley, Leichhardt. Flowering in June. 
Nearly allied to the E. Indian F. prostrata , Roxb., but in the latter species the flowers are 
considerably larger, although the petals are shorter than the calyx. — Benth. 
4. r. involucrata (bearing an involucre), Benth. in PI. Jungli. i. 246, and 
FI. Austr. ii. 269. An erect stout perennial or undershrub of 2 to 4ft., more or 
less villous with soft spreading hairs. Leaflets 3, ovate, rather acute, 2 to 3in. 
long. Stipules lanceolate, very deciduous. Flowers in dense globose heads of 
lin. diameter or rather more, sessile or very shortly pedunculate in the upper 
axils and at the ends of the branches. Outer bracts ovate-lanceolate, striate, 
pubescent, forming an involucre round the head ; inner ones much narrower. 
Calyx covered with long soft hairs, the upper lobes about 4 lines, the lower nearly 
6 lines long and much broader than the others. Standard rather shorter than 
the calyx-lobes, obovate ; keel scarcely shorter, almost acute. Pod enclosed in 
the calyx, scarcely 3 lines long, usually 1-seeded by abortion. — F. capitata, Zoll.; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 166. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, R. Brown. Also in N.E. India and in Java. — Benth. 
68. DALBERGIA, Linn. 
(After Nicholas Dalberg.) 
Calyx-teeth short, the lowest rather longer. Standard obovate or orbicular ; 
keel obtuse. Stamens all united in a sheath open on the upper side, or in 2 
equal bundles, or reduced to 9, the upper one deficient ; anthers small, erect, 
didymous, opening at the top. Ovary stipitate, with 1 or few ovules ; style 
incurved, with a terminal stigma. Pod thin and flat, oblong, linear or rarely 
falcate, indehiscent, the margins neither thickened nor winged. Seeds single or 
few and distant along the centre of the pod, very flat and reniform. — Trees or 
woody climbers. Leaves pinnate, without stipellas, the leaflets usually alternate. 
Flowers small, usually numerous in axillary or terminal dichotomous cymes or 
irregular panicles. Bracts and bracteoles usually minute. 
A large genus, dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. The only 
Australian species has also been found in New Guinea. 
1. D. densa (flowers dense), Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 217, and P'l. 
Austr. ii. 271. A small tree, with the branches sometimes weak or climbing. 
Leaflets 7 to 15, broadly oblong or oval-elliptical, very obtuse, f to l^in. long, 
glabrous above, minutely pubescent underneath. Panicles or clusters of racemes, 
under 2in. long, not much branched. Flowers scarcely above 2 lines long. Calyx 
nearly glabrous, about 1 line long, the teeth very short and broad. Claws of the 
petals as long as the calyx. Ovary glabrous ; style rather slender. Pod very 
thin, obtuse, H to nearly 3in. long, about £in. wide, slightly reticulate along the 
centre, on a stipes of about 2 lines. 
Hab.: Prince of Wales Islands, R. Brown ; Albany Island, IV. Hill. Also in New Guinea. 
The Australian specimens have rather more leaflets than the New Guinea ones, but do not 
otherwise differ. The species is allied to the common D. tamarindi folia, Roxb., from E. India 
and the Archipelago, and has the same pod, but much larger, broader and fewer leaflets and 
smaller flowers. — Benth. 
Wood of a light colour, grain close. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 118a. 
