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Penang ; Waterfall, Curtis 2840 ! King ! Perak ; Larufc, Kunstler 

 3991 ! Scortechini 197 ! 1849 ! Assam Kumbong Wray 2124 ! Pankore ; 

 ScortecUni 1073 ! Singapore ; Bukit Timah, Eullett 880 ! Bukit Mandai, 

 Ridley 3636 A ! Malacca ; Miller! Griffith ! Maingay 591 ! Derry 522 1 • 



The seeds are not always black and red but are sometimes concolorous red just 

 as is usual in A. pavonina. The nearest ally of this species is one obtained in 

 Borneo by Mr. Hullett. This Mr. Hullett notes as " a good-sized tree," from 

 Sarawak {Hullett 292) ; Mr. Brace in the Calcutta Herbarium has named it A. borne- 

 ensis Brace. The diagnosis between the two species may be given as follows : — 

 Pinnae 3-4 pairs ; leaflets 8-10, acute at apex, always under 

 2 in. long, 15 times as long as broad, pale-green above, 

 glaucous and puberulous beneath ; flowers not longer than 

 pedicels ... ... ... ••• ••• 1- ^- bicolor. 



Pinnse 2 pairs; leaflets 4-5, acuminate at apex, usually over 

 2 in. long, twice as long as broad, dark-green above, glabrous 

 and not glaucous beneath ; flowers twice as long as pedicels... 2. A. horneensig. 

 The flowers of A. lorneensis are considerably larger than those of A. licoloi: 

 Dr. Grifiith has noted that the Malay name of A. hicolor in Malacca is " Bunah 

 Sagas " Mr. Derry gives it as " Saga." 



61. Neptunia Lour. 



Herbs without prickles. Leaves bipinnate, witb persistent stipules 

 and numerous small strap-sbaped sensitive membranous leaflets. Flowers 

 minute, dimorphous, in dense heads on axillary peduncles, polygamous, 

 those of the lower part of the head bearing only protruded flattened 

 staminodia. Calyx minute, campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, strap- 

 shaped, connate near the base. Star)iens of the perfect flowers exserted ^ 

 anthers gland-crested. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 stigma club-shaped. Pod coriaceous, flattened, ligulate or oblong, 2- 

 valved. Species 8 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Neptunia oleracea Lour. PL Cochinch. 654. An anarmed herb 

 with annual wide-creeping softish swollen stems, rarely emitting sub- 

 erect branches, rooting copiously at the leaf and flower-beai-ing nodes. 

 Leaves 2-pinnate, rachis (including petiole 1'5 in.) 2-5-3 in. long, 

 glabrous ; pinnse 4-6, 2-3 in. long, with stalk '3 in. long ; leaflets 8-15- 

 jugate, narrow-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, •35-'5 in. long, '2 in. wide. 

 Ped2«ic Zes ascending 3-12 in. long, glabrous; flowers minute, in dense 

 heads •5-75 in. long, '5 in. across, the lower replaced by numerous 

 ligulate yellow staminodes •25-*3 in. long, bracts small ovate subobtuse. 

 Corolla '05 in. long. Pod oblong, oblique, -5-1 in. long, '35 in. wide, 

 beaked, dry, dehiscing early by the upper suture. Seeds 6-9, transverse, 

 narrow-oval, somewhat pointed towards hilum, obtuse at opposite end, 

 *2 in. long, "12 in. wide, "1 in. thick, testa brown, polished. Benth. in 

 Hook. Journ. IV, 354 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 50 ; Bak. in. Flor. Biit. Ind. 

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