21S Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



opposite amplexicaul triangular persistent erect bracteoles midway 

 between bract and calyx-tube, pedicels and bracteoles pnberulous. 

 Calyx- wliite, tube cylindric -15 in. long, shorter than limb of 4 narrow- 

 oblong sepals, pubescent along margin at tip. Petals 0, Stamens 2 with 

 a rudimentary filament between them, opposite to and involved by the 

 inmost calyx segment ; filaments widened at base and subconnate, pink ; 

 anthers nearly twice as long as broad, filaments twice as long 

 as sepals. Ovary pubescent. Pod oblong, obliquely obtuse at apex 

 with a rather pronounced beak, obliquely rounded at base, 2 in. long, 1 

 in. across. 



Perak ; Bindings, Lumut, Ridley 3089 ! 8006 ! 



A very remarkable species, easily distingnished from all those hitherto known 

 by its large foliaceous stipules, and its stipellate leaves with pubescent rachis. It has 

 been obtained twice, both times in the same locality, and on both occasions by Mr. 

 Ridley. 



53. Crudia Schreb. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-pinnate or spuriously even-pinnate by 

 the approximation of the penultimate to the terminal leaflet, the leaf- 

 racliis sometimes prolonged beyond the ultimate leaflet, the remaining 

 leaflets usually conspicuously alternate rarely occasionally subopposed ; 

 stipules interpetiolar, stipels 0. Flowers in racemes either terminating, 

 or simple or in clusters at the bases of, the glabrous or pubescent 

 new leafy shoots. Calyx-tnhe very short, with a short disc, seg- 

 ments 4 oblong, imbricated, persistent, reflexed in flower. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10 (or 8-9) exserted, filaments free filiform, anthers oblong, 

 versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary pubescent, few-ovuled ; with 

 distinct short glabrous stalk and filiform incurved glabrous style ; 

 stigma terminal capitate, small. Pod with 2 rigidly coriaceous sub- 

 compressed valves. Seeds few, often only 1, exalbuminous. Species, 

 one each Indian and African ; nine or ten American ; about twelve 

 Malayan. 



The oldest names for this genus, according to the I'ndex Keicensis, Bre Aplatoa 

 Aubl. and Touchiroa Aubl. As the first name was based on the flowers of one 

 species of this genus with the fruit of a Pterocarjpus, it cannot possibly be used. 

 There seems nothing against the employment of the second name which was given 

 to a species of the group with few leaflets to the leaf -rachis — the group to which 

 C. hantamensis, C. gracilis and C. Wrayi, among Malayan species, belong. 

 Leaflets more than 3 (§ Crudia) : — 



Leaflets coriaceous, very long caudate-acuminate, rachis 

 prolonged beyond the last of the oblanceolate, all conspicu- 

 ously alternate leaflets; (innovations and petioles densely 

 rnstr-tomentose) ... ... ... ... 1. C. caudata. 



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