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incurved, exserfed. Ovary puberulous, oyate-lanceolate ; ovules 2. Fod 

 hard, tliiclc, irregularly oblong-ovate, with a sliort stalk and slightly 

 excenti'ic acute point, J '5 in. long, 1"25 in. wide, externally covered with 

 a pale blueish bloom; inside white. Seed usually solitary, oblong, "75 

 in. long, '6 in. wide, somewhat compressed, bright scailet, with anadnate, 

 black, smooth aril, '15 in. deep, embracing its base. 



Perak ; Larut, Scortechini 324 ! Kunstler 4234 ! Wray 2979 ! 

 A very fine species ; near to 0. macrodisca, but with a smuUer pod and seed ns 

 well as Avitb smaller leaflets; tlie seed too lias the black arillar portion anpifcted. 

 It resembles O. gJauca as to leaves though its leaflets are nob quite so hirge ; 

 it has however larger speds than 0. glauca has, and the seeds have a black hilum ; 

 the seeds of 0. glauca are all scarlet. 



4. Ormosia NiTiDA Prain. A tree HO-50 feet high, stem 2 feet in 

 circumference, with stout rusty-brown glabrescent branches. Leaves 

 5-7 in. long, leaflets 7, obovate ov elliptic, base rounded, apex broadly 

 rounded and abruptly shortly cuspidate, very rigidly coriaceous, dark 

 glo.ssy-green quite glabrous on both surfaces, terminal 25-4 in. Ion"-, 

 1*3-2 in. wide, rather exceetling the others, secondary nerves very 

 slender, 12-15 pairs. Racemes in fastigiate terminal panicles, 6-8 in, 

 long, 5-6 ill. across, rachis and branches faintly puberulous, pedicels 

 puberulous. Id in. long, shorter than calyx, bracts and bracteoles de- 

 ciduous. Calyx '2 in. long, rather densely tawny-silky, teeth deltoid, the 

 3 lower as long as tube the two upper subconnate into a 2-fid upper lip. 

 Corolla unknown. Fod irregularly oblong, 1 in. long "75 in. across, tiie 

 valves thinly woody, rigid, quite glabrous and black externally, brown 

 and not suberous within, with a short stalk equalling the calyx-tube. 

 Seed oval, usually if not always solitary, ciunabar-red, '35 in. long 3 in. 

 Avide, without arillus. 



Peiiak ; Groping, in open jungle, local, Kunstler 6082 ! 



This very distinct species has nnfortunately only been reported in fruit. Its 

 pods are very like those of 0. microspenna or 0. parvifolia but appear to have been 

 glabrous from tlie beginning. They diiler, moreover, very markedly in being shmtly 

 stipitate; the leaflet.s too, are of different shape and firmer texture, besides being 

 quite glabrous on both surfaces. 



5. Op.mosia parvifolia Bak. in Flor. B»it. lud. II, 253. A fairly 

 large tree with slender persistently brown- velvetj^ branches. Leaves 

 6-8 in. long, leaflets 9-13, oblong, coriaceous, green, glossy above, thinly 

 hairy beneath, apex shortly acuminate, base rounded, the terminal 

 rather larger than the others, 2-2 5 in. long, •6--7 in. wide, secondnry 

 nerves fine and hardly raised beneath, 8-9 paii-s. Racemes in fastigiate 

 terminal panicles with rather short branches, 3-4 in. long, 2*5 in. wide, 

 with densely brown-velvety rachis and branches, pedicels brown- velvety, 

 very short, each with au ovate-lanceolate basal bract and with 2 ovate 



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