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upper calyx segments, filaments very sliort slender, authers large 

 oblong, basifixed, debiscing longitudinally. Ovary silky, ovate, sessile, 

 tapering upwards somewhat abruptly into a slender incurved style; 

 ovules 2. Pod suborbicular, '9 in. wide, sligbtly compressed, shortly 

 apiculate, fragile, finely puberulous with minute silky hairs but not 

 velvety. Seed solitary, obovate-quadrate, brown, finely longitudinally 

 striate, shining, -5 in. long, '4 in. wide, '15 in. thick. Linn. Mantiss. 

 511 ; Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 136, t. 30; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 79; Koord. 

 & Val. Bijdi'. 11, 20. D. javanicum Buvm. Fl. Ind. 12. Carandje 

 Bontius, Hist. Ind. Or. 93 ; Rumph. Herb. Amboin. II, 93, footnote. 

 Tamarindus monococcus 7)iinor, etc. Plunk. Mantiss. 177 ; Amalth. 198, 

 t. 144, f. 4. 



Pahang ; Pijaie, Pahang river, Ridley 2607 ! Penang ; Ayer Etam, 

 Curtis ! 



This is the Kranji of the Malays in Java according to Bontius, Rumphiaa, 

 Miquel and Koorders. Mr. Ridley's specimens have no native nume and as there 

 is no indication that they are from a j^lanted tree it may be reasonably supposed 

 tliat the species is indigenous in Paliang. The specimens sent by Mr. Curtis are 

 noted as being from " Ayer Etam in Miller's compound ; " this remark, taken in 

 conjunction with the fact that two native names '"' Kranji borong or Kranji padie " 

 are given as alternatives, seems to point to the species bein^ an introduced one in 

 Penang. The name Kranji horong is sometimes applied in Malacca to the quite dis- 

 similar species D. platysepaUim. 



The fruits are eaten for the sake of the pulp that forms the endocarp of the 

 pod. In the Indian Forester for October 1896, it is stated that Kranji is one of the 

 valuable timbers of the Straits Settlements. The scientific name cited in the 

 notice is D. indicum ; there is no species of that name. Perhaps the present species 

 is intended ; there is however nothing to show whether the tree referred to be this 

 or some of the other species of Dialium. 



4. DiALiUM LAURINUM Bak. iu Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 269. A large tree 

 with slender rugose dark-brown rustj^-puberulous branchlets. Leaves 

 alternate, odd-pinnate, 7-8 in. long ; leaflets 7, rarely 5, subopposite, 

 elliptic rather suddenly narrowed to a broad subobtuse or ernarginate 

 apex, base broadly rounded, 4-5 in. long, l'75-2 in. wide, rigidly 

 coriaceous, dark-green on both surfaces, glossy above, dull beneath, 

 glabrous on both sides, secondary nerves 8-9 pairs oblique but not 

 curved, faint above, rather prominent beneatli and with there a distinct 

 reticulate intermediate secondary venation ; petiolules stout, glabrous, 

 •3-'4 in. long. Panicles terminal and axillary, 4 in. long, 3 in. wide, 

 branches from *5 to 2 in. long, rustj-pubescent, pedicels '1 in long, 

 usually in clusters of 3, silky. Calyx -15 in. long, ovoid-oblonsr in bud, 

 tube subobsolete, segments 5 subequal much imbricate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 densely grey -velvety on both surfaces. Petals 0. Stamens 2 opposite 

 the upper calyx-segments, filaments very short, slender; anthers oblong. 



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