152 Materials for a Flora of the Malay nn Teninsida. 



8. Ormosia venosa Bak. in Flor. Brit. Tnd. IT, 254. A tall tree, 

 with brandies densely persistently velvety-jiubescent. Leaves 4-6 in, 

 long, leaflets 7, obovate-oblong, obtuse or subol)tuse, base cuneate nearly 

 sessile on the rachis, rigidly coripceous, grejish-green glabrous but dull 

 above, densely persistently tonientose beneath, 3-4 in. long 1*5-2 in. 

 across, terminal exceeding the rest, secondary nerves 10-12, distinctly 

 raised beneath, rachis densely velvety. Racemes terminal crowded, with 

 rather sleuder branches, 3-4 in. long and about as wide, rachis and 

 branches densely velvety ; pedicels '2 in. long, nearly equalling the calyx, 

 bracts '15 in. long, lanceolate, persistent, bracteoles at base of pedicels *1 

 in. long, 2 bracteoles under calyx minute but subpersistent. Calyx '25 

 in. long, densely velvety, teeth triangular, three lower as long as lube, 

 two upper subconnate. Corolla '35 in. long, apparently white, standard 

 •3 in. across. Stamens incurved, exserted. Geary velvety. Pod obtuse 

 or subacute, orbicular or oblong, obtuse or subacute, I'o in. long, 1-35 in. 

 across, '1 in. thick, the valves very thickly woody, black and glabrous 

 externally. Seeds usually solitary, ovoid, 5 in. long, '4 in. wide, crim- 

 son-red, without arillus. 



Malacca ; Maingay 533 ! 

 A very distinct species. 



SUBOHDEB II. GjESAZTJNIE^. 



Trees or shnrbs, very rarely herbs. Leaves pinnate or 2-pinnafce 

 leaflets l-oo -paired, rarely simple or 1-foliolate, stipels usually 0, if 

 present very minute. Inflorescence racemose, rarely cymose, very rarely 

 spicate ; axillary, lateral, or in terminal panicles. Flowers irregular or 

 very rarely regular, 5-, less often 4-merous. Sepals 5, or 4 from fusion of 

 the upper two, divided to the summit of the disc that lines the short or 

 long calyx-tube, imbricate or rarely valvate, or very rarely united in a 

 toothed or lobed limb. Petals 5, or fewer by abortion, tlie upper inner- 

 most in bud, the otheis vaiiously imbiicate. Stamens 10, or fewer by 

 abortion, very rarely indefinite, free or rarely some or all more or less 

 connate; antliers various. Ovary free or united by its stipe to the disc- 

 bearing calyx-tube. Seeds various, albumen copious, scanty, or 0. 

 Radicle straight or slightly oblique, hidden between cotyledons, or short- 

 ly exserted. 



Leaves simply pinnate or (Bait/imia) 1-foliolate : — 

 Anthers basifixed : — 



Leaves even-pinnate ; (petals 5) ... ... 44. Cassia. 



Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets alternate : — 



Petals 5 ; stamens 5 ; pod iflat, winged throughout its 



circumference, indehiscent ... ... ... 45. Koompassia, 



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