DALBERGIA (named after Nicholas Dalberg, a Swedish botanist, born 1730, died 1820). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus containing above sixty species of stove evergreen trees or climbing shrubs, natives of tropical regions in Asia, Africa, and America (two are Australian). Flowers violaceous-purple, or white, in dichotomous cymes or in irregular sub-cymose panicles, axillary or terminal. Leaves alternate, impari-pinnate (rarely unifoliolate). They grow freely in a mixture of fibry peat and turfy loam, to which may be added a small portion of sand. Cuttings of firm young shoots will root in March. if placed in sand, under a glass, and in a little bottom heat. Two of the most important are here described. DALBERGIA latifolia (broad-leaved). Black Wood. fl. white; panicles terminal. May. fr. lanceolate. l. pinnate; leaflets roundish, emarginate. h. 30ft. East Indies. A large deciduous tree, the wood of which is extremely hard, and of a dark colour. It is extensively employed for furniture, carving and fancy work, as well as for gun carriages, &c. (B. F. S. 24.) DALBERGIA Sissoo. Sissoo-tree. fl. white; panicles axillary, puberulous, shorter than the leaves. May. l. leaflets five, alternate, petiolate, obovate, abruptly acuminated, glabrous above, but pubescent beneath. h. 30ft. Bengal, 1820. The wood of this species is very durable, and is largely used in Bengal in the manufacture of gun carriages, railway sleepers, &c. (B. F. S. 25.)