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both the echinulate sutures, always along the lower, between the 4-8 

 separating joints which are usually echinulate on the face, rarely smootli. 

 DC. Prodr. II, 320 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 275 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Jnd. II, 152. ^. indica Wall. Cat. 5667 not of Linn. ^. traclmjloha 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 276. J5/. indica vaii. asi^era Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 

 340. Hedysaruvi lagenarium Roxb. Hort. Beng. 57 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, .S65. 

 Malacca; Griffith! Distrib. Tropical S.-E. Asia and Tropical Africa. 

 This is the well-known "Sola" plant, the pith of which is used in making 

 sun-hats, fishermen's floats and other articles where great lightness is desirable. 

 Doubtless it is an introduced plant in Malacca. 



37. Phylacium Benn, 



Climbing herbs. ' Leaves 3-foliolate ; stipules persistent small linear 

 or lanceolate, leaflets stipellate. Floivers in axillaiy racemes shortly 

 pedicelled, 2-bracteolate near the calyx, completely enveloped, as ulti- 

 mately is the legume, in a large boat-shaped membranous accrescent 

 bract. Calyx tubular, sub-2-labiate, 4-toothed. Standard ovate, apex 

 retuse base 2-auriculate ; wings oblong, long-spurred, spurs incurved 

 clasped by the auricles of the standard ; keel straight obtuse shortly 

 spurred. Siamens diadelphous, posterior filament adnate to base of 

 standard-claw. Ovary short-stalked, its base surrounded by a shallow 

 disc; ovule solitary; style inflexed. Pod short-stalked ovate-rotund, 

 acute. Species 2, the present and another which is Indo-Chinese. 



Phylacium bracteosum Benn. PI. Jav. Ear. 159 t. 33. A slender 

 climber 20-30 feet long, young parts and leaves beneath sparingly ad- 

 pressed-hirsute. Leaves pinnatelj 3-foliolate ; leaflets ovate-oblono- base 

 rounded apex obtuse, thinly herbaceous, green on both surfaces, glabrous 

 above, sparingly hirsute beneath, 2-3 in. long, 1*5 in. wide ; petioles 

 glabrescent 15 in. long, stipules and stipels linear, persistent. Bacemes 

 axillary 2-10 together, 1-5-2 in. long, shorter than the leaves, flowers 

 fasciculate few. Bracts pale-green, 1-1-5 in. long, externally glabrous, 

 sparing hirsute within. Calyx '15 in. long, externally sparingly hirsute, 

 upper lip entire ovate, lower 3-lobed, lobes lanceolate the cential rather 

 the larger, none overlapping. Corolla S in. long, Avhite with a pink 

 tinge, glabrous. Pod '25 in. long, compressed, sparing hirsute, reticu- 

 late. Benth. PI. Jungh. I, 231 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 228. 



Perak; near Gunong Potido, in open jungle, 200-300 feet elev., 

 Kunstler 8367 ! Distrib. Sumatra and Java to the Philippines. 



38. Uearia Desv. 



Suffruticose perennials. Leaves stipellate, with 1 to 9 leaflets. 

 Flowers very numerous, minute, racemose. Calyx-tube very short ; two 



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