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66. Serianthes I3enfch. 



Unarmed trees. Leaves 2-piunafce. Flowers racemose, very large, 

 5-merous, mostly hermaphrodite. Calyx deeply campanuiate, deeply 

 toothed. Petals adnate to tlie base of the stamiual column, free above. 

 Stamens monadelphous, very numerous ; anthers minute. Ovary sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Fod large oblong, 

 almost woody, somewhat turgid, indehiscent, septate between the seeds. 

 Species 2, one in Malaya, one in Polynesia. 



Serianthes grandtflora Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jouru. Bot. Ill 

 225. A large unarmed tree with rusty-puberulous young branches. 

 Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis puberulous 7-9 in. long, with a laro^e 

 sessile gland '25 in. above base and with small glands between the 

 bases of each pair of pinnae ; pinnse 3-8-jugate, 3-4 in. long, puberu- 

 lous ; leaflets 6-12 pairs, obliquely oblong, subfalcate, obtnse, base ob- 

 liquely truncate, -5-1 in. long, -S-'G in. wide, rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 glossy-green above, paler dull reticulate-veined beneath, glabrous on 

 both surfaces. Floivers few, in axillary corymbose panicles 4-6 in. long, 

 main-rachis puberulous, peduncular portion 2 in. long, the branches 

 puberulous •5--7 in. long, each 2-4-fld ; pedicels densely tomentose '2 

 in. long; buds oblong or globose, -35 in. across. Calyx wide-cam- 

 panulate, '5 in. long, -35 in. wide with triangular teeth one-third the 

 length of tube, uniformly densely felted externally. Corolla yellow- 

 ish-white, 1*5 in. long, the segments densely woolly externally, glabrous 

 within. Filaments over 500, 25 in. long. Pod turgid, 6 in. long, 225 

 in. wide, "75 in. thick, epicarp thin brittle, endocarp woody ; sutures 

 thin, valves septate and slightly depressed between the seeds. Seeds 

 6-8, narrowly ovate, the long axis across the pod, '75 in. long, -3 iu. 

 across, '15 in. thick, testa dark-brown, smooth but hardly shining, seed 

 faintly areolate. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 40 ; Bak. in. Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 II, 301. Liga Finlaysoniana Wall. Cat. 5284. I. grandiflora Wall. Cat. 

 5285. I. ventricosa Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5266 in part. 



Singapore; Wallich f Finldyson. Malacca; Gri^th! Maing ay 580 I 

 DiSTRiB. Malay Archipelago. 



67. Enterolobidm Mart. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves bi pinnate. Floivers in globose heads, 

 6-merOus, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx campanuiate or subcampanu- 

 late, shortly toothed. Corolla subinfundibuliform, the petals connate to 

 the middle. Stamens monadelphous much exserted ; anthers small 

 not gland-crested. Ovary sessile many-ovuled; style filiform, stigma 

 minute capitate. Pod strap-shaped straight or curved, indehiscent 

 mesocarp spongy at length hardening, or pulpy and soft, endocarp firm 



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