552 POLYANDRIA MOXOGYNIA. Munosa. 



Bcng. SMpota, 



A native of the forests of Silhet, and its neighbour- 

 hood, where it grows to be a large tree, flowering in De- 

 cember, and ripening the seed in April. 



Trunk straight, when full grown about two feet in dia- 

 meter, or six in circumference ; young shoots villous. 

 Leaves scattered, bipinnate, from twelve to twenty-four 

 inches long, from ten to twenty pair ; pinncE opposite, 

 from three to six inches long; leaflets from twenty-five 

 to tifty pair, linear, lucid, half an inch long. Petioles 

 common and partial, villous ,• glands an umblicated one 

 under the lower pair of pinnaj, and one between each of 

 the last three, four, or five pair. Stipules minute, su- 

 bulate. Paw tc/es terminal, composed of a few, alternate, 

 very long pedunclel, large, snb-clavate, pale yellow fra- 

 grant spikes, (or flowers.) Bractes or scales of the cia- 

 vate receptacle, solitary under each corollet, spatulate 

 with the apex broad, and villous on the out-side. Calyx 

 tubular, mouth cut into five unequal, roundish, villous 

 segments. Coral five-parted. Filaments ten, united from 

 the middle downwards. Germ linear, many-seeded. Style 

 the length of the stamina. Legumes about a foot long, 

 and an inch and half broad, flat, swelled at the seeds, 

 where a quantity of mealy matter is found to surround 

 each seed ; surface smooth, brown when ripe ; it can 

 scarcely be called jointed, except when very old. Seeds 

 from twelve to twenty, oval, smooth, dark brown. 



Note. About the base of the spikes on the sub-cylin- 

 drical part, the corollets are generally raale-neuter. 



20. M. triquetra. Vahl. Symh. 3. 102. 



Bi-triennial, prostrate. Leaves bipinnate : pinnce two 

 pairs; leaflets from ten to twelve pair. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, bracted ; spikes round, erect; corollets five- 

 petalled, decandrous. Legumes linear, from four to six- 

 seeded. 



