

254 L. LEQUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Ormosia. 



"beneath inconspicuous, pedicels very short, pod suhcompressed with thin valves, 

 seeds oblong turgid, Macrotropis hancana, Miq, FL Ind. Bat, Suppl 295? 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



Branches slender, persisteiitly hrown -velvety. Leaflets rigidly coriaceous, grey- 

 green, oblong, distinctly cuspidate, the end one 2-2^ in. long, rather glossy above, 

 thinly hairy beneath, the veins fine and scarcely at all raised ; petiolules ^^ in. 

 Racemes short; flowers crowded; bracts and bnicteoles distinct, ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 persistent, Calys ^ in., brown-silky, cleft half way down. Corolla twice the length 

 of the calyx. Ovary silky. Pod and seeds just like those of 0, microsperrm. 



7. O. venosa, Baker -^ leaflets 7 obtuse or subobtuse nearly sessile on the 

 rachis with thick much-raised parallel main veins beneath, pedicels long, pod- 

 valves thick turgid, seeds orbicular subdiscoid. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tall tree, with branches clothed with persistent dense velvety pubescence. 

 Leaflets oboA-ate -oblong, rigidly coriaceous, 3-4 in. long, grey-green and glabrous 

 above, densely persistently tomentose beneath. Flowers crowded in terminal racemes, 

 the branches densely velvety, not rigid as in the two preceding; bracts and bracteoles 

 minute, but distinct and subpersistent ; pedicels as long as the calyx. Calyx j in., 

 densely velvety, cleft down to the middle. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. 

 JSfaiJiens distinctly exserted. Pod obtuse or subacute, oblong or obovoid-oblong, 

 glabrous, 1^-1| in. long, 1 in. thick. Seeds bright scarlet, exarillate, |-^ in. broad. 



9C. CJ&SA.Z.PXNIA, Linn. 



Robust erect trees, shrubs or woody prickly climbers. Leaves large, abruptly 

 bipiunate. Flowers sliowv, yellow, in copious axillary racemes. Calyx deep J" 

 cleft, with the disk confined to its base, the lobes imbricated, the lowest tje 

 largest, cucuUate. Petals spreading, usuallv orbicular with a distinct claw, tne 



uppermost smaller than the others. Stamen^ 10, free, declinate ; anthers oblongi 

 uniform, versatile. Ovary sessile or subsessile, few-ovuled ; style filiform, some- 

 times clubbed at the tip, stigma tenniual. Pod oblong or ligulate, thm an 

 flat, or thicker and subturgid, indehiscent or dehiscent, smooth or in ^^,^.' 

 Giiilandina armed all over with wiry spines. — DrsTRiB. Species about 40, wiu ; 

 spread in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



SiTBGEX. 1. Guilandina (Linn.) Pod dry, armed on the faces y^^ 



abundant wiry prickles. Petals narrow. 



L C. Bonducella, Fleming in Asiat Res, xi. 159; leaves stipuW^' 

 leaflets small, bracts squarrose. Roxb. Fl Iml ii. 357. Guilandina Bonduceu , 

 Linn, ; IVall CaL 5803. G. Bonduc, W. Sf A. Prodr. 280 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. J^o^' 

 FL 79, in part. 



From the Himalayas, throughout India, ascending to 2500 ft. in KumaoX. 



DiSTRiB. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. . Ugg. 



Branches finely grey-downy, with abundant small hard falcate yellow F^j^^j^gg 

 Leaves a foot or more long, with a pair of reduced pinnje persistent at the base , P, ^ 

 mostly 12-16 ; leaflets oblong, obtuse, mucronate, membranous, usunlly ^-^ ^^' ' 

 rather downy beneath. Racevies long-peduneled, simple or panicled, dense at 

 lax downwards; pedicels as long as the calyx, finely brown-downy. .^^^ 



^^ in. Petals oblanceolate, yellow, little exserted. Pod short-stalked, oblong, ^- 

 long. Seeds 1-2, large, oblong, lead-coloured. 



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