. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Fig. 103. D. Kurzii, Prain. \. 26. D. Oliveri, Gamble, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. QQ (1898), 451. —Syn. D. paniculata, Kurz, F. Fl. i. 345 (not of Hoxb.). Prain vol. 70, 53. Vern. Tamalan, Tabauk, Burm. A large tree, heartwood very tough, hard and heavy, dark red. Leaflets 10-20, glabrous, 1-1^ in. long. Fl. white, appearing with the young leaves, J in. long, in large spreading terminal panicles. Calyx pubescent, edges ciliate, 4
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Fig. 103. D. Kurzii, Prain. \. 26. D. Oliveri, Gamble, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. QQ (1898), 451. —Syn. D. paniculata, Kurz, F. Fl. i. 345 (not of Hoxb.). Prain vol. 70, 53. Vern. Tamalan, Tabauk, Burm. A large tree, heartwood very tough, hard and heavy, dark red. Leaflets 10-20, glabrous, 1-1^ in. long. Fl. white, appearing with the young leaves, J in. long, in large spreading terminal panicles. Calyx pubescent, edges ciliate, 4 teeth short, obtuse, that opposite the keel long linear. Pod 1-2-seeded, 3-4 by |-1 in. Pegu, mixed dry forest. Eng forests of Upper Burma. Fl. March, April. Smales has sent specimens from the banks of the Mu river. Upper Burma, intermediate, between this and D. assamica. Leaflets silky pubescent, fl. white, large, in small lateral panicles. Species 20 and 26 are closely allied. Two trees of this section in Upper Burma are: 27. D. Hemsleyi, Prain, and 28. D. Prazeri, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. 66 (1898), 450, 452. In Manipur a remarkable species of this section has been found : 29. D. Wattii, Clarke; Prain, 1. c, 451. Leaflets nearly opposite, 4-5 pair, narrow-lanceolate, very acute, slightly pilose beneath. D. Climbers. Stamens 10, in 2 bundles of 5 each. Pod thin. 30. D. volubilis, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 191 ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 235. Vern. Dauk talaung^ Burm. A large scrambling or climbing shrub with tough wood, the branches often bent and twisted into spiral hooks. Grlabrous, except inflorescence. Leaflets 9-13, elliptic or obovate, often minutely mucronate at apex, 1-2 in. long. Fl. small, crowded, pale blue, in compact, pubescent panicles. Pod 2-3 in. long, I in. broad, 1- rarely 2-seeded. Subhimalayan tract, from Kumaon eastward. Gudh forests. Central and South India. Andamans. Burma. Fl. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page i
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