230 Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. 



Penang ; Govt. Hill, 2500 feet, Giivtis, 385 ! Distrib. Eastern and 

 Sou-tli- Eastern Asia, introduced in America. 



7. Cj;salpinia parv[flora Prain. A small tree or, at times, a 

 climber, with stem 8-12 in. in diam. and with rusty-pubescent branches 

 sparingly armed with small prickles. Leaves stipulate 8-10 in. long, 

 piunse 18-24, 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 30-36, close, firmly subcoria- 

 ceous, oblong, sessile, attached sub-centrally but with the lower corner 

 subauriculately produced, apex obtuse or rounded, •35-'5 in. long, 

 •2-25 in. wide in vAR. typica, '75 in. long, '35 in. wide (or rarely even 

 larger) in. var ? stipularis, dark-green glabrous and shining above, dull 

 beneath and glabrous in var. typica, sparsely puberulous on the midrib 

 in VAR ? stipularis; stipules lanceolate or oblong •45-*75 in. long. 

 Hacemes in an ample terminal again branching panicle extending into the 

 axils of the upper leaves, 2-3 feet long, 12-15 in. across, primary 

 branches 5-8 in. long, final individual racemes 3 in. long; pedicels '25 

 in. long, slender, densely puberulous as are the main-rachis and 

 branches of panicle ; bracts linear or lanceolate, •2-- 25 in. long, decidu- 

 ous. Calyx ''2ih in. long, thinly coriaceous, puberulous. Corolla '3 

 in. across, petals greenish-yellow, oblong, subequal, . hardly exserted. 

 Stamens green, densely woolly at base. Ovary sparsely pubescent. Pod 

 of VAR. typica 1 in. long, '5 in. wide, with a recurved beak at upper angle 

 of obtuse apex ; seeds (young) oval, 4, '25 in. long. 



Var. typica ; leaflets not exceeding "5 in. in length, glabrous 

 beneath ; stipules lanceolate, '45 in. long, '2 in. wide, margin entire ; 

 bracts linear, -2 in. long, hardly equalling the pedicels. 



Perak; at low elevations, Kunstler 3499! 7584! Wray 1909! 



Var.? stipularis; leaflets '75 in length or longer, the midrib 

 beneath puberulous ; foliaceous stipules broadly ovate-oblong, '75 in. 

 long, "35 in. wide, continued in the leafless portion of the more diffusely 

 branching and more densely puberulous inflorescence, their margins 

 often incised ; bracts lanceolate, '25 in. long, equalling the pedicels. 



Perak ; Larut, in the plains, Wray 3983 ! 3991 ! 4261 ! 



The foliage of the typical variety of this species is very like that of C. 

 cinclidocarpa Miq. or C. tortiwsa Roxb. but the remarkably small flowers and the 

 different fruit (which is exactly like a minature C. Sappan pod) abundantly dis- 

 tinguish it from all other Indo-Malayan species. 



The pod of vae ? stipularis is not yet known and it may ultimately be necesary 

 to separate it specifically from C. parvijlora. But its flowers, except that the calyx 

 is somewhat more puberulous, are exactly as in C. parviJlo7-a, and though var ? 

 stipularis has a somewhat different facies on account of its larger leaflets and 

 especially its much longer foliaceous snbpersiatent stipules, it seems better in the 

 meantime to treat it tentatively as no more than a variety of C. parvijlora. Wray 

 notes that var. typica is a " small tree ; " Kunstler states on one occasion that it is 

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