146 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak; Kiuta river. Kunsfler 765! Distrib. India, Iiido-Chlna, 

 Malaya. 



42, SoPHOEA Linn. 



Trees or slirnbs. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers showy, yellow or 

 wliite or violet-purple, raceraed or panicled. C alyje ohhqne subgibbous 

 broadly carnpauulate ; teetb deltoid very short. Corolla miicli exserted, 

 standard broad; petals equal in length all with long claws; keel obtuse. 

 tStaniens free or only obscurely connate at the very base ; anthers uni- 

 furm versatile. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, stigma 

 capitate. Pod moniliform, sublignose or membranous usually indehis- 

 cent, the joints turgid and usually terete. Species about 25 ; wide- 

 spread iu tropical and subti'opical regions, a few temperate or alpine. 



The above definition applies to the section Eusoplior a, to which the only Malayan 

 species belongs. 



SopHORA TOMENTOSA Linn. Sp. PI. 373. An evergreen littoral shrub 

 or small tree sometimes leaching 20 feet in height, with all parts at first 

 softly and shortly tomentose. Leaves 6-12 in. long, leaflets 10-17 ter- 

 minal and in subopposite pairs or often along proximnl half of rachis 

 distinctly alternate, elliptic to. oval-obtuse 1-1*5 in. long, •5-*75 in. 

 wide, thinly coriaceous, with age glabrescent above, persistently softly 

 pubescent beneath, petiolules very short densely pubescent as is the 

 rachis. Flowers in terminal racemes 6 in. long on softly tomentose 

 pedicels, '3 in. long, with deciduous subulate basal bracteoles, '15 in. 

 long. Calyx obliquely truncate, '35 in. long, obsoletely toothed, exter- 

 nally softly pubescent. Corolla yellow, glabrous, '65 in. long ; standard 

 orbicular veined. Stamens almost free to the base, the vexillary fila- 

 ment quite free, the filaments of the other 9 very shoitly connate round 

 base of pubescent 10-12-ovuled ovary. Pod moniliform 6-8-seeded, 

 4-6 iu. long, the oblong hoary joints separated by stipes as long as 

 themselves. DC. Prodr. II, 95 ; Wall. Cat. 5333 ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 

 316 ; W. & A. Prodr. 179; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 124; Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 249. 8. glabra Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 285 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, I'JS {fide Baker). 



Kedah ; Langkawi, Curtis ! Bindings ; on coast, Scoriechini ! Curtis ! 

 Perak ; Larut, Bldley ! Pulo Condor ; on the coast, Finlayson ! Anda- 

 MANS ; very common on all the coasts. Distrib. On most tropical sea- 

 coasts. 



43. Ormosia Jacks. 



Erect trees or, one species, climbing. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers 

 usually in dense terminal racemes. Calyx campanulfite, deeply 5-cleft, 

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