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conspicuous beneath, not visible above, petiolules '15 in, long, puberulous. 

 Wlowers strongly scented, in axillury and terminal dense panicles, 4-6 in. 

 long, 2-5-3 ill, wide, individual racemes 2 in. long with suberect zig-zag 

 rusty- 1 omen tose rachis, flowers subdisticlious, bracts ovate-acute "3 in. 

 long, densely puberulous beneath, sparsely so above ; pedicels *35 in. long 

 rusty- tomen tose, with two ovate-lanceolate bracteoles, *2 in. long, at the 

 npex; buds oblong densely pubescent, '4 in. long. Calyx-tuhe short, 

 lobes 4, thick, '25 in. long, very densely strigose on the inside, ovate- 

 acute, valvate, sparingly spinescent externally in the upper tliird. Petal 

 1, reddish, as long as the calyx-lobes, densely hairy. Staminal-shesiih. 

 and filaments declinate, red with rusty hairs ; perfejt anthers 9. Ovary 

 very hirsute, style twisted, stigraa capitate. Pod wide-oblong, obliquely 

 rounded at base so that the small recurved beak projects laterally at 

 right angles to direction of stalk, 2 in. long, 2"5-3'5 in. across ; valves 

 dehiscent, puberulou?, woody, uniformly armed on the outside with 

 strong straight conical spines '2 in. long. Seeds usually 2, rarely 3-5, 

 with hard black shining testa, oblong, horizontal, "5 in. long, "75 in. across, 

 resting on a basal, arillus-like, thick obconic funiculus about -75 in. long. 

 Sit^dora Wnlliohii VAR inter media Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 268. S. 

 V/allicMi Scortechini MSS. not of Benth. GaJedupa inter media Prain 

 MSS. 



Pangkore ; Gunong Tungal, Curtis 1630 ! Scortechini 1064 ! 

 Malacca ; Mningay 562 ! Petjak ; Scortechini ! 



This is at once distinguished by its transverse pods from both of the species 

 placed under 8. Wallichiana by Mr. Bentham. Mr. Curtis gives the Malay name of 

 this in Pangkor as " Sapetir,*' 



Two other species with similarly obh'que pods ai-e S. sumatrana Miq. and S. 

 cochinchine lists Baill. ; it is just possible that S. velatina Bak. may prove to share 

 the character and to belong to the same group. 



4. SiNDORA VELUTfNA Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 269. A large tree 

 with densely tawny-tomentose branches. Leaves equally pinnate with 

 sparsely pubescent rachis 5-7 in. long, stipules not seen ; leaflets 5-6- 

 jugate, oblong, apex subacute or acute, base round or slightly cuneate, 

 2*5-3*5 in. long, 1-1*75 in. wide, the lowest pair rather the smallest, 

 very coriaceous, shining glabrous above, dull densely uniformly softly 

 pubescent beneath, nerves numerous close horizontal slightly irregular, 

 very faint beneath, not visible above, petiolules '1 in., densely pubes- 

 cent. Flowers in axillary and terminal lax racemes 5-7 in. long, 3 in. 

 wide ; individual. racemes 2 in. long, with ^ig-zag densely tawny-pubes- 

 cent spreading rachis, flowers subdistichous, bracts ovate-acute, "3 in. 

 long, densely tawny-tomentose, pedicels *15 in. long, densely tomentose 

 as are the two lanceolate bracteoles ; buds oblong, densely pubescent, 

 •4 iu. long, Calyx-i\xhQ short, lobes 4, thick, '25 in. long, densely hairy 



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