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Mezoneurum.'] l. leguminos^. (J. Q. Baker.) 250 



4. III. pubescens, Desf. in Mem. Mus. iv. 246, t. 11 ; leaflets 12-16 



im.ll obloag- obtuse pubescent subsessile, stamens slightly exceeding the calyx, 

 Wesalpinia hymenocarpa, JFall. Cat 5832. 



>- AvA; T^ODg-dong, Wallich. Ceylon, ThwaUes.—DisTRiB, Malay isles. 



General habit and inflorescence of the last. Branches, leaves below and calyx 

 densely finely grey-downy, Pinncs 12-24, distinctly stalked; leaflets sensitive, 

 O ^^' ^^^g' Bactines close, copiously panicled ; pedicels erec to-patent, twice the 

 c^l^'x. Flowers larger than in the last, bright yellow. Filame7its densely woolly near 

 tne base. :pod 3-4-seeded, 3-4 in. by 1 in. broad, without the wing. 



, '* Tubicaljrx, Miq, Flor. Inch Bat i. 1081. Calyx shallowly cleft with 

 tne disk extending above the base. 



8. Ut, suxnatranum, W. 8f A. Prod/\ 283. Oaesalpinia sumatrana, 



Ind. 



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MAiiccA, Griffith, Mainffa7/,-^DisTiiiB. Malay isles. 



■oranches thick, rather downy, armed with copious small falcate prickles. Leaves 

 a lOot or more long ; pinnse and leaflets both 8-10, the latter obovate-oblong, rigidly 

 «>riaceous, glabrous, obtuse, 2-3 in. long. Racemes as long as the leaves, forked ; 

 ^nis virgate, woody; pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous, |^ in, long, the upper 



in not more than ^ in. deep, the lowest rather longer, the tube splitting off at the 

 ^^^^^^^^^ <^^ the glabrous filaments. PetalsVittle exserted, reddish-yellow, much nar- 

 p 5,^^^^ in the other species, peramnently imbricated, oblanceolate-spathulate. 

 of th fl ' ^~^ ^°' ^y ^ i"-' 3-4-seeded, with a moderately broad wing.— The structure 



of the flo 



Wagatea, 



PTEZtOXiOSZUM, B. Br. 



intS^*^^ cIiiiaWs, with the habit of Cmalinma, from which they differ only 

 tljg*j^* Crt/y.r deeply cleft, with the disk near the base, the lobes imbricated, 

 and T^^^i^*^^^^^ and more hooded than the others. Petals spreading, oblong 

 antb S' ^^^IJiiig the calyx. Stamens 10, free, declinate, little exserted ; 

 ers oblong, versatile. Oiary sessile, 1-ovnled ; style filiform, stigma small 

 W n '^^^ indehiscent, samaroid, with a large horny oblique terminal 

 %---DisiRiB. Species 4, spread through the Tropics of the old world. 



Fl T ?'..*^d*cum, A. Mich. FL Abyss, i. 246. Ciesalpinia lacerans, Boxh. 

 hod/k^' f67. Pterolobium lacerans, WalL Cat, 6841- A to E ; W,^ A. 

 Jt £. ^^^ \ ^Vt, Icones, t. 196 ; Kurz in Joam, AsiaL Soc. Benff. xlii. 2 / 1 *'^»* 

 ' -Keichardia hexapetala. Both ; DC. B\Kh\ ii. 484. 



I^flets i!; i/*'"^^^^ ^nely downy; prickles minute, hooked, umform. Pimi<B 8-16 ; 



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C'orrf/rt 3,V ^"wny, spreading, |-A in. Calyx glabrous, ^ m. ; iowe:.. ^^y^^ ..n^^^^. 

 by l^i i^^"'^. not showy, as long L the loTvest sepal. Pod 1^-1^ m. ; ^ving f-1 in. 



' i'n. Ion,;' '^'T^^hlli'-m, Miq. ; Kurz, loc. cit. sp. ; racemes copiously panicled, leaflets 

 *«>a8serim^'^ }}^- ^°"8 ^ith an obtuse or obliquely acute wing 1^-1^ m. by ^ in. 



W\War 9 ' -^'^V^'-- Malacca, il/ae«o«y.— Distrib. Malay isles. 

 W 2;:2i ^"^f^rum, Kurz, loc cit. sp. ; branches stouter, leaflets muc i larger, 



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