200 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peniiisiila. 



Malacca; Maingay 589! Derry 893! Prov. Wellesley; Tasek 

 Gelu.^ur, Bidley 6981 ! Perak ; Scortechini 2190 ! at Goping, Kunstler 

 6022 ! 6066 ! 



§ 2. PsEDDOCYNOMETRA. Stamens 40-60. 



4 Cynometra polyandra Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32. A large tree, the 

 leafy shoots at first enveloped in imbricating bracts, the basal ones 

 scarions '3 in. in diam., the inner membranous and reaching 2 in. long, 

 1 in. across. Leaves even-pinnate, rachis puberulous 3-7 in. long ; leaf- 

 lets 3-jugate, elliptic-obovate or oblong, base obliquely cuneate, inner 

 side with the lower half -of margin straight, narrower than outer with 

 uniformly curved margin, apex subacuminate, subcoriaceous, dark-green 

 above, paler beneath, glabrous and smooth on both surfaces, hardly 

 shining, lateral nerves 7-8 pairs more prominent beneath than the 

 secondary reticulations, sessile, 2-5'5 in. long, l-2"5 in. across, the lowest 

 the smallest. Flowers in sessile axillary corymbs 2 in. long, 1*5 in. wide, 

 the closely imbricating bracts hard striate scarious, broadly ovate, '3 in. 

 across, soon deciduous, pedicels pubescent, '6-1 in. long with 2 very 

 deciduous basal bracteoles. Calyx-tVihQ very short, lobes 4, narrow- 

 obovate, imbricate, reflexed, '4 in. long, white. Petals 5, lanceolate, "4 in. 

 long, narrower than sepals, white. Stamens 40-60, filaments slender, -.5 

 in. long, glabrous, anthers versatile. Ovary densely pubescent, sub- 

 sessile, very oblique ; ovules 1-2. Pod oblique, oblong, woody, 2-2*5 in. 

 long, 1'25-1'5 in. wide, smooth or rugose. Seed solitary, irregularly 

 oblong, 1*5 in. long, 1 in. wide, '5 in. thick. 



Var. typica; pod smooth. G. polyandra Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32; PI. 

 Coromand. Ill, t. 286; Flor. Ind. II, 372; DC. Prodr. II, 509; Wall. 

 Cat. 5815 ; W. & A. Prodr. 294. 



Penang and Malacca ; fide Baker. Distrib. Khasia, Silhet. 



Var.? Kurzii ; pod very rugose, leaflets rather larger. G. cauUflora 

 Wall. Cat. 5816 E. 



Penang ; Jack (Wall. Cat. 5816 E) ! Kiirz ! on 'Govt. Hill, " Apl. 

 1890 " and " May 1893 " Gurtis ! Perak ; Scortechini ! 



There are no specimens of C. 'polyandra proper from Penang or Malacca in 

 Herb. Calcutta. The specimens of " VAR. ? Kurzii, " which may possibly prove, 

 •when fully represented, to be a distinct species, has been obtained in fruit by Kurz 

 alone ; all the other specimens are in leaf only ; its flowers are, so far, unknown. 



49. Tamartndus Linn. 



A spineless tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers in racemes. 

 Galyx-tnhe turbinate ; disc produced above its base ; teeth lanceolate 

 much imbricated, the two lowest connate. Petals only the three upper 

 developed, the two lateral ovate, the upper hooded, the two lower 



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