Afzelia.] L. leguminos^. (J. G, Baker.) 275 



um biiuirum 



CofcJ. m rra?i5. imn. ^oe. xii. 359, t. 17. 



Malay peninsula, Wallich, Griffith.— Distrib, Seychelles and Malay isles and 



ft 01 j^ n cS 1 3f « 



. An erect tree, 50 feet high. Leaflets stalked, obliquely oblong, subcoriaceous, 

 glabrous, 2-5 in. long, subacute or obtuse. Flowers in a dense terminal corymbose 

 panicle; pedicels ^i in., grey-downy. Calyx-tnho cylindrical, ^-| in. Petal 

 exserted, round, with a long claw. Filaments above 1 in. Pod rigid, flat, oblong, 

 6-8 in. long; seeds 4-5. 



3. A, palembanlcay Baker; leaflets 6-8, panicle corv-mbose, calvx- 

 tube as long as limb, fertile stamens 3. Intsia palembanica, Mia, Flor, Ind, 

 Sat, Suppl 289. 



_ Malacca, Griffith (" The best Malacca timber tree "), Maingay, Asbamans^ 

 AMr^-.— Distrib. Malay isles. 



^ A tall unarmed erect tree. Leaflets stalked, oblong, subcoriaceous, obtuse, emar- 

 ginate, 2-4 in. long ; lowest pair distinctly smallest. Flowers in a dense terminal 

 ^orymbose panicle ; pedicels ^J in., grey-downy. Cal?/x-tnhe cylindrical, ^^ in. 

 retal not exserted. Filaments \-l in. Pod oblong, almost woody, glossy, 6-10 in. 

 Dy 3 in., straight or rather curved. 



4. A.? 



Maingay MSS. 



(ikeT\ leaflets 4-6, panicle thyrsoid with racemose 

 shorter than the limb, fertile stamens 9. Intsia 



Malacca, Maingay, 



Leaflets stalked, oblong, glabrous, very rigid and coriaceous, 3-4 in. long, obtuse, 

 emarginate. Flowers in copious elongated terminal panicles, with distant racemose 

 tranches, clothed like the pedicels and calyx with thin rusty tomentum. CaJyx-ivihQ 

 Teiy short; sepals \ in., much narrower and less imbricated than in the two other 

 |pecies, ''Filaments alternately longer and shorter (5 long, 4 short), in bud, connate 

 Dto a partial tube at the base," Maingay. Pod not seen.— Mny prove a Pahudia, but 

 we liare young buds only. 



114. BAUKXNZA, Liuu. 



Unarmed erect trees or climbers with circinate tendrils. Leaves simple, 

 ^^Uy deeply cleft from the tip, rarely entire or fully divided into 2 leaflets. 

 tiC'^*^ showj^, in copious simple or j)anicled often corymbose racemes. Calyx- 



yoe With the disk produced to the top, sometimes long and cylindrical, some- 

 ^^es short and tm-binate ; limb entire and spathaceous, or cleft into 2 or 5 

 -^'P^^^ls 5, subequal, usuallv with a distinct claw. Stamens 10, or 

 ^^ced to 5 or 3, if fewer than lO with sterile filaments absent or present, 

 Si^A^^ free, filiform ; anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Orary 

 sX ' ^any-ovuled ; style long or short, stigma small or large and peltate, 

 ^Jterminal or oblique. Pod linear or rarely oblong, flat, continuous within, 



*;aisceut or indehiscent. Seeds albuminous.— Distkib. Species 130, spread 

 ^^erywhere in the Tropics. 



tuh?^^' 1- Pauletia, Cav. Fertile stamcm 10. Calyx with a very short 

 -JBhovt^^fl ^P^t^aceoiis limb. Pod narrow, dehiscent.— Erect shrubs with large 

 ^ flowers and connate leaflets. 



Dairl' *■ *onientosa, Linn, ; DC. Prodr,il 514 ; flowers usually in axillary 



^ s> petals much longer than the entire calvx-limb, pod stalked not ribbed near 



e upper suture. Poxb. Ilort. Benq. 31 ; FL Iml ii. 323 ; Wall Cat. 5700, excL 



^xl\ ^''^^^- Maq, t. 5oG0: W.Sf A. Prodr. 295; Bedd. Fl Sylv. 92. B. 



^^losa, Poxb. ; Wall. Cat. 5791. 



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