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5. Agel^:^ Soland. 



Erect or scandent shrubs. Leaves 3-rarely 5-folIolate. Panicles or 

 racemes axillary. Calyx 5-partite, not accrescent nor embracing the fruit, 

 imbricate or sabvalvate. Petals lanceolate or ligulate, obtuse, free or 

 connate at the middle. Stamens 5 or 10. Disc J-annular or 0. Pistils 

 2-5. Follicles 1-3, sessile or shortly stalked, coriaceous, rugose or 

 lamellate. Seed erect, exalbuminous ; testa arilliform below the middle. 

 — DiSTRiB. 12 species, African and Asiatic. 

 Main nerves of leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, sub-erect, curving. 

 All parts more or less pubescent, stamens 5 ... ... 1. A. vestita. 



All parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous ; stamens 10 ... 2. A. WalUchii. 

 Main nerves of leaflets 7 to 10 pairs, spreading. 

 Leaflets 3 to 5, all parts more or less pubescent ; stamens 5 .. 3. A. pinnata. 

 Leaflets never more than 3, adult leaves quite glabrous; 

 stamens 10 ... ... ... ... ... 4. A. Sullettii. 



1. Agelj:a vestita, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 46. A rather slender 

 woody creeper 20 to 80 feet long ; young branches at first rusty -tomen- 

 tose but soon becoming sub-glabrous or glabrous. Leaflets membranous, 

 unequal, more or less ovate or elliptic, with rounded base and caudate- 

 acuminate apex ; the terminal one the larger, sometimes ovate-rotund 

 to sub-rhomboidal ; its petiolule '5 or more in length, swollen at the 

 apex ; the lateral leaflets inequilateral, the petiolule only '1 or '2 in. long ; 

 upper surface of all sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the midrib and 

 nerves tomentose ; lower surface pubescent ; main nerves about 3 pairs 

 (one pair sub-marginal), much curved, prominent as are the intermediate 

 nerves and reticulations; length of the lateral leaflets 2*5 to 3 in., 

 breadth 1'25 to 1*75 in., the terminal one larger. Panicles extra-arillary, 

 less than 1 in. long, tomentose, with many short branches. Flowers 

 under '2 in. long, on slender pedicels. Calyx cleft to the very base ; the 

 segments unequal, linear, tomentose, shorter than the glabrous yellowish 

 oblanceolate or linear petals. Stamens 5, unequal. Styles 2 to 5, slender, 

 with a few white hairs. Follicles solitary, bright red, rarely in pairs, 

 ovoid, boldly tuberculate or lamellate externally and tomentose, about 

 ■6 to '8 in. long, usually with a short curved stout apical beak. Seed 

 narrowly sub-obovoid, black, '4 in. long, pale and arilliform near the 

 base. Cnestis vestita^ Wall, in Herb. Linn. Soc. Gonnaracea, Wall. Cat. 

 8535. Hemiandrina horneensisy Hook. f. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 

 171, t. 28. Troostwyckia singularis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 531. 



Singapore ; Jack, Ridley. Penang ; Porter, Curtis. Malacca ; 

 Griffith, Maingay. Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini, Johore, 

 Ridley. — Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A very common species in Perak. The arillas of the seed is very inconspicuoHS 



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