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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninstila. 



slightly puberulous within along midrib, the upper rather longer sub- 

 acute, the others obtuse 'SS in. long, light-red, spreading. Slamens 3 

 fertile, filaments '3 in. long. Ovary very shortly stalked, densely pubes- 

 cent, style '2 in. long, stigma large peltate. Pod thin flat densely 

 velvety, 3-5 in. long, 2 in. across, valves woody ; stipe very short. Seeds 

 3-5, ovate, dark-brown, 1 in. long, "G in. across. 



Perak; Kimstler b9l4i \ 7054^! Scorteckini! Selangor; Kwala Lam- 

 par, " top of the cave, " Kelsall 1971 ! 



A veiy remarkable species at once distinguished from any of the other Malayan 

 ones by its leaves, which have the nervation of a Strychnos ; and from all the hitherto 

 known species by its truncate entire calyx. It might on this account be perhaps 

 ti'eated as the type of a new section. As regards fruit it might be placed in the 

 section Phanera ; as regards its other charactex'S it agrees better with Lasiohema 

 in which it is now placed. 



48. Cynometra Linn. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves with few coriaceous odd-pinnate 

 leaflets. Flowers copious, minute, in axillary corymbs or racemes. 

 Calyx with a very short tube and subbasal disc ; divisions 4-5, oblong, 

 imbricated. Petals 5, oblanceolate, equal, not exserted. Stamens 10, or 

 in C. polyandra indefinite, filaments erect, free, filiform, exserted ; 

 anthers small, oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile 

 or short-stalked, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod turgid, 

 oblique-oblong, with very thick indehiscent, usually rugose, tough, some- 

 what fleshy valves. Seed exalbuminous, central, filling up the cavity. 

 DiSTRiB. Species 20, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



Stamens 10 (§ Eucynometra) ; leaf-rachis glabrous: — 



Flowers on stem and thick branches in racemes with a 

 produced axis; pedicels glabi'ous ; (leaves l-jugate) 

 Flowers among the leaves in racemes or corymbs without a 

 produced axis ; pedicels puberulous : — 



Corymbs laxly umbellifoi-m, bracts small very deciduous; 

 pods rugose ; leaves l-"2-iugate ... 

 [Leaves l-jugate 

 Leaves 2- jugate 



End-leaflets acute much exceed- 

 ing basal pair 



End-leaflets obtuse hardly ex- 

 ceeding basal pair ... 

 Eacemes dense subspicate, bracts subporsisteut ; pod 

 smooth ; leaves 3-jugato 



C. catdifora. 



2. C romiflora. 



SUBSP. gemnna ; 

 8UBSP. hijiiga ; 



VAR. heterophi/U^, 



VAR. mimosoides.'} 



3. 



C. inaequali- 

 folia. 



Stamens 40-GO {% Pscudocynometra) ; leaf-rachis puberulous; 

 (flowers in axillary corymbs ; pedicels puberulous) 



[Pod smooth ... ... \A^. ti/'pica ; 



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4. C polf/andra. 



