Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta. Part I - The Species of Dalbergia of South-Eastern Asia

The account of the Indian species by Baker in the Flora of British India was written with all the benefit of reference to the writings of Miguel of Bentham and of Kurz and all the advantage of access to fuller suites of material than were at their disposal : it therefore throws much light on points that to Miguel and to Kurz were obscu' 3. It is to be hoped that the writer's articles prepare [...] Unconsidered identification on the other hand obscures the facts of distribution and evades computation ; it is besides too often a cause of offence on the part of those weaker brethren who prefer the statement of a text to the harvest of the eye. [...] The economic importance of the genus Dalbergia rendering it desirable to put an end to the doubts that prevailed as to the identity and distribution of its Asiatic species a study has been undertaken of the material preserved in a number of important collections. [...] of D. loiccolaria.f Of the eight additional species which Poiret adds to the two mentioned by Lamarck only the three cited from Roxburgh really belong to the genus; the others are species of Lonchocarpus or of Sethania. [...] The next considerable addition to the genus Dalbergia was made by Wallich when the distribution of the Honourable East India Company's Herbarium took place.t Graham then Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh seems to have been mainly responsible for the identification of the various species.