200 40. LEGTJMINOS^) PAPILIONACEiE. 



(Hance, 0052 !) ; Hongkong ( Wright ! Champion !). Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Common, especially in littoral districts in tropical Asia, 

 E. Africa, Mascarene Islands, and Polynesia, and also found in 

 North Australia. 



A large-leaved variety (?) of this species was collected by Ford 

 on Harbour Island, Kelung, Formosa. 



1. Pongamia glabra, Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 28 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 

 p. 410 ; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. p. 115, et Fl. 

 BZongk. p. 94; Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 240. 



Kwangtung : Whampoa (Hance, 6004!) ; Hongkong ( Wright !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



One of the commonest sea-coast trees in the tropics of the Old 

 World. 



[Pongamia chinensis, DC. (Prodr. ii. p. 410 ; Hook, et Arn. 

 Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 181), syn. Bobinia mitis, liour. (Fl. Cochinch. 

 p. 455), not of Linnaeus, is to us an altogether obscure plant.] 



1. Euchresta Horsfieldii, Benn. in Horsf. PI. Jav. Bar. p. 148, 

 t. 31 ; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 248 ; Maxim, in 

 Mel. Biol. xii. p. 448. 



Woeth-ea-ST Formosa : about ten miles inland (Wilford, 

 497 !) ; Luchu Abcuipelago (Tashiro ex Maximowicz). Herb. 

 Kew. 



Khasia mountains, Eastern India, and in Java. 



2. Euchresta tenuifolia, Remsl., n. sp. 



Frutex glabrescens, cortice demum rubescente nitido, ramulis 

 floriferis graciliusculis plus minusve appresso-hirsutis. Folia 

 6-8 poll, longa, 5-foliolata, petiolo rhachi deque gracili parce ap- 

 presso-hirsuto ; foliola brevissime petiolulata, meinbranacea (in 

 ramis floriferis tenuissima), lanceolata, oblance^lata vel interdum 

 fere rhomboidea, maxima (te;minalia) usque ad 4 poll, longa, 

 utrinque angustata, apice longe acuminata, utrinque prsecipue 

 secus costam et margines appresso-hirsuta vel strigillo^a, venis 

 ultimis minute reticulatis, petiolulis incrassatis barbatis. Flores 

 infra pollicares, racemosi, racemis gracilibus paucifloris oppositi- 

 foliis vel subterminalibus ; calyx truncatua vel obscure 5-dentatus, 

 margine parce puberulus, latus, petalis dimidio brevior; petala 

 obtusa, vexillo longiore basi incrassato, carina alisque longiuscule 



