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*' 'S, O. travancorica, Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 45; leaflets 7-9 oblong dull 



green long-stalked, racemes crowded in terminal panicles^ pedicels very short, 

 pod oblong with the valves rounded on the back. 



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. Travancorb hills, Beddome, 



■ A tall tree, with finely grey-downy branchlets. Leaflets opposite, oblong, cuspi- 

 ^te, rigidly coriaceous, 2-3 in. long, dull grey-green beneath, rounded at the base, 

 Rightly downy on the midrib, the veinlets immersed ; petiolules \~^ in. long, 

 i^ww^r^ crowded on the finely grey-downy branches; bracts very, minute. Calyx 

 brown-silky, ^ in., deeply 5-clett. Corolla whitish, under twice the length of the 

 c«lyx. l^od glabrous, hard, oblique oblong, subacute, 3 in. long, 1-seeded. Seed 

 oblong, 1 in. long, with a bright scarlet testa. 



8. O. xnacrodisca, Ba1ier\ leaflets 7-9 rigidly coriaceous pale green 

 oblong, short-stalked, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels shorter 

 tiian the calyx, pod large orbicular with subcompressed thick valves. 



> ,. Malacca, Mai7igay, 



. .•^'.^^'g® *^ree, with very thick grey glabrous branchlets. Leaflets very thick and 

 ^gju in texture, pale grey-green on both surfaces, acute, broadly rounded at the base, 

 ^ ~'^m. long, quite glabrous, the veins immersed. Branches of the panicle stout, 

 \ ?^*^) glabrous ; bracts and bracteoles minute, subpersistent ; pedicels brown-silky 



■ C 7/' ^^^y^ 4~3" in., densely brown-silky, cleft considerably below the middle. 



■ r.^ ^^^^^ ^s long again as the calyx; standard | in. broad. Stamens consider- 

 Z^l ^^■'^^rted. Pod hard, thick, 3 in. broad, flat at first, turgid when the usually 



I ^^'^ seed swells. Seed oblong, 1 in. long, with a large black adnate pitted 



dull 1 ■ ^'^^<^^' ^^11- Pi' ^'^^^' ^«'*- 11- 23, t. 125; leaflets 7-9 oblong 

 ^pale green distinctly stalked, flowers in axillary racemes, pedicels as long as 

 f^ calyx, pod unknown. Wall. Cat 5338. 



^;; NiPAL, Wallich, 



%ubc ^^^ ^^^^' ^^^^ thinly brown-velvety stout sulcate branchlets. Leaflets rigidly 

 Vein •^^*^^*^^^' obtusely cuspidate, 3-4 in. long, dull pale green on both surfaces, tbe 

 leav^ ^°^?^^®^ ' petiolules ^-^ in. Flowers in peduncled racemes, shorter than the 

 ^^ es; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous. Calyx I in., obscurely silky; teeth 

 bm^^ ^^ ^'^^ *^^®- Corolla white, twice the length of the- calyx. Ovary linear, 

 ^■silky, 3-4-ovuled. 



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Leaflets beneath and branchlets velvety. Seeds small 



letflL '"^^crosperma, Baker-, leaflets 11-13 acute short-stalked, vein- 

 Oeneath slender raised anastomosing, pedicels shorter than the calyx, pod 

 ^nipressed with thin valves, seed oblong turgid. 



J^ocA, Gnffith, Maingay. ^ ^ , , 



ri^Hi J^ .^'^^^^d bree, with thick densely brown-velvety branches. Leaflets oblong, 



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small 1^*°"^^^ rigidly erecto-patent, deusely velvety. Calyx H i^^-' '^'*^ ^ P*^"" ^'^ 

 CorouT^^-^^ bracteoles at the base, densely velvety ; t«eth as long as the tube, 

 if 1 rJ^'^^ ^ ^ong as the calyx. Ovari/ densely silky, 3-4-ovuled. Pod orbicular 

 thin ri •?' '"^ ^°- ^oiig, oblong if 2-seeded, lineate between the seeds, the valves 

 0. (i«' V/ ^'^^^•'^scent. Seeds bright scarlet, i in. long, exarillate.— Closely resembles 

 the M:,} ' ^"'^^s- ill Trans. Linn. Soc. x. t. 25, from Guiana, and nearly allied to 

 ... -^diavan Af^^^^j^...- . 'liq.Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 294. Kurz refers here 



,^„'«, Tvr.-r. V] Tiid. Rat. SuddI. 302. 



^^o/X ^*^^<^^otropis sumatrana, ] 

 M . . ^^"^ "epiewjugum and decemj 





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Parvifolla, Baker: leaflets 9-13 small acute, long-stalked, veins 





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