268 L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Cynometra. 



erecto-patent, ^-J in. Sepals ^ in., permanently ascending. Filaimnts twice the 

 calyx. Pod ^ in. thick, woody, oblique obovoid, 2-2;! in. long, not at all wrinkled.— 

 Col. Beddome has found a plant in South Canara with 3 pairs of leaflets and similar 

 bracts, of which the flowers are not yet known. 



4. C. cauliflora, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 509 ; leaflets usually 2, flowers 

 in dense sessile congested racemes from thick branches with the axis produced, 

 pod turgid wrinkled. Houb. Hort. Beng. 32; Wall Cat. 6816, ex parte) 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 293 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 315 (analysis). 



"Western Peninsula, Ceylon, Maiacca. — Distrib, Malay isles. 



Branchltis slender, glabrous. Petioles very short ; leaflets very rarely bijugate, 

 and if so v^ry unequal, rigidly coriaceous, sessile, glossy, obovate, very oblique 

 obtuse or subacute, 3-6 in. long. Bacemes congested in dense rounded masses, not 

 more than an inch long, the central axis of each produced, the short erecto-patent 

 pedicels subtended by small roundish spreading persistent bracts. Calyx ^ in. i^oa 

 like that of C. ramifiora^ oblique oblong, very turgid, 1-1^ in. long. 



Stjbgen. 2. Pseudocyuometray W. ^ A. Stamem indefinite. 



5. C. polyandra, Boxh. Cor. PL iii. t. 286 ; HoH. Behg. 32; Fl Ind. 

 ii. 372 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 609 ; Wall. Cat. 5815 ; W. ^' A. P)'odr. 294. 



Khasia, Silhet, Penang, Malacca. .. 



Branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves nearly sessile, |-| ft. ; leaflets 4-6, usually 

 the latter, sessile, oblique-oblong or obovate, 2-4 in. long, rigidly subconaeeous, 

 acute or subobtuse, glossy. Flowers in dense corymbs, sessile in the axils of t e 

 leaves of the branchlets ; pedicels downy, ^-1 in. Sepals | in., reflexed. Stamens 

 40-60, much exserted. Pod oblique oblong, smooth, woody, 2 in. long. 



105. SXNDORA 



Unarmed trees. Leaves abruptlv pinnate; leaflets few. Flotoers smaJi, 

 panicled. Calyx with a very short tute and basal disk ; segments 4, valvate,tne 

 two upper being connate. Petal one, the same size and shape as the upper np 

 of the calyx. Stamens 10, the upper one free from the others, shorter ana 

 anantherous, the rest declinate, shortly monadelphous, unequal, the uppe 

 longest, exserted ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinallv. Orfl'^ 

 2-ovuled, short-stalked ; stigma long, filiform, circinate, stigma minute ter- 

 minal. Pod like that of Guilandina, oblique, rouud-oblong, dehiscent, the n a , 

 hard valves armed all over the face with straight large firm prickles.— Di^^^ 

 Another species or variety in Sumatra. 



1. S. IXTallicliii, Benth. in IPooL Ic. t. 1017-8; branchlets and ^^^^^ 

 below shortly tomentose, leaflets 4-G, bracts persistent, calvx prickly. *-'"^^. 

 . Wallichiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5805. Echinocalyx, Benth. Gen. Il^^^' 



dina 

 584, 1 00 



SiNCAPOUK, Wallkh; Mat.acca, Griffith, Maingay, ^ .^^ 



A small erect unarmed tree, -with branches clothed with short brown pubesc ^^^^ 

 Leaflets rigidly coriaceous, 2-3 in. long, subobtuse, oblong, glossy above, ^ ^^^j^^ 

 pul>escent beneath. Prtwzc/^f dense, axillary and terminal ; bracts cordate, rou" ^^^ 

 spreading or reflexed ; pedicels nearly as long as the calyx. Calyx i |"'' f^^yg^ 

 downy, the sepals armed to^vards the tip with large firm prickles, i^^" S^^ 

 sublignose, 2-3 in. long. . , ^.^g, 



Var. 1. siamensis, Teysm., sp. ; leaflets 6 obovate distinctly emargmate 

 thinner strongly veined the end one 3-4 in. long. — Siam, Teysmann. jj^p^ 



Vab. 2. intermedia, Baker; leaflets 6-8 smaller m^re acute, flowers ^"? . ^y^ 

 and receding towards the next by its shorter pedicels, caducous bracts, calyx ^i 

 prickles and more densely velvety sepals and branches.— Malacca, Maingay* 



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