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a strong climber, branches at first rusty-pubescent at length glabrescent. 

 Leaves 8-JO in. long, all oblong-cuspidate, cuneafce at the base, 4-6 in. 

 long l'5-2 in. wide, thickly rigidly coriaceous, dark green and quite 

 glabrous on both surfaces midrib prominent beneath glabrous, lateral 

 nerves 6-7 pairs and secondary nervation very slightly raised ; petiole 

 2-4 in. long glabrous, petiolules 2 in. glabrescent ; stipels short subulate 

 often obscure, stipules lanceolate '2 in. long very early deciduous. In- 

 florescence of short axillary panicles 8-9 in. long, branches about 2 in. 

 long, again paniculate, peduncles rusty-pubescent with a few ovate-acute 

 deciduous leaf-scales at their base ; pedicels very short, rusty-pubescent. 

 Calyx densely rusty- velvety, *! in. long, teeth all deltoid shorter than 

 the tube. Corolla 2 in. long, dark- purple, limb of standard much 

 broader than deep, deeply emarginate at apex subcordate at junction 

 with claw. Pod not seen ; when immature with a stalk (fide Baker.) 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 194. Pongamia ? crassifolia Grab, in Wall. 

 Gat. 5913. 



Penang ; Wallich ! Distrtb. Silhet. 



This is very distinct by reason of its leaves and (from Mr. Baker's description) 

 on account of its stipitate pod. Dr. Wallich's original specimens from Silhet and 

 Penang seem undoubtedly examples of one species ; strangely, it has not been sent 

 again to Calcutta from either locality. 



7. Spatholobus Maingati Prain. A large climber with glabrous 

 branches. Leaves 4-5 in. long ; leaflets 3 ovate-acute base rounded tip 

 slightly mucronulate. thickly coriaceous glabrous on both surfaces, lateral 

 nerves ascending 5-6 pairs slightly prominent beneath cross-nervation 

 distinct but not prominent ; terminal 3 in. long 1-75 in. wide; lateral 

 rather smaller; petiole 2 in. glabrous, petiolules '25 in. quite glabrous; 

 stipels subulate '1 in. long, stipules ovate 'I in. long, deciduous. 

 Inflorescence in terminal and axillary panicles 6-8 in. long. Bracts 

 minute subulate persistent puberulous, as are the rachis and pedicels 

 shorter than calyx ; bracteoles very minute. Calyx adpressed-puberulous 

 •12 in. long, campanulate, teeth all short rounded. Corolla white '25 in. 

 long, the standard orbicular deeply emarginate. Ovary hirsute 2-ovuled. 



Malacca; Maingay 611! Perak ; Kunstler 3535! 4652! 6906! 

 10428 ! Scortechini 206 ! 1537 ! Singapore ; Ridley ! 



This evidently quite common species has never yet been reported in fruit. It 

 appears from a note in Herb. Calcutta that Mr. Kurz had supposed it might be the 

 same as S. macropterus Miq. ; the flowers, however, differ slightly and, in their vena- 

 tion, the leaves of the two species differ markedly. Father Scortechini on the other 

 hand thought when he collected it that this migrht be Derris (Aganope) macrophylla, a 

 reasonable supposition in the absence of fruit since the flowers of Spatholobus are 

 very like the flowers of Aganope and since the obscureness, and indeed at times 

 apparently total absence, of stipels from the leaves of this species leads to their being 



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