270 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



by Mr. Bentham ; the pod which he describes, and which belonged to his Borneo 

 specimens, evidently agrees very closely with that of the Peninsular plant. 



8. PiTHECOLOBiUM ELLiPTicuM Hassk., Retzia I, 225. A tree 15-30 

 feet high, (occasionally higher) branchlets tawny-pubenilous soon glab- 

 rescenfc, bark grey. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis glabrous 3-4 in. 

 long, with a large gland above base and another between the bases of 

 the distal pinnae ; pinnaa 2-3Ugate, rachises of distal pair 4-7 in. long, 

 with small glands between each pair of leaflets except the lowest, of 

 proximal pair often only subopposite always within an inch of base of 

 main-rachis "75-1 in., with gland between the end pair of leaflets ; 

 leaflets very large, of upper pinnae 3-4-jugate, distal 6-8 in. long, 2*5-^5 in. 

 wide, of proximal 3 in. long, 2 in. wide ; leaflets of lower pinnae nsually 

 2- jugate, distal 4 in. long, 1*5 in. wide, lowest 2 in. long, 1 in. wide, the 

 leaflets often unequally- jugate on the corresponding pinnae of the same 

 leaf, elliptic-oblong, apex rather abruptly pointed, base rounded, glabrous 

 on both surfaces, bright green shining above, paler dull beneath ; petio- 

 lules glabrous, '25 in. long, lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, ascending. Flowers 

 in very small 2-5-fld. heads '2 in. or less across, on short tawny-puberu- 

 lous peduncles •25-35 in. long, solitary or 2-3 vertically superposed 

 above the axils of bracts with a large gland, on eubcorapressed branch- 

 lets l'5-6 in. long, also 2-3 vertically superposed above the axils of larger 

 bracts'25-*6iu. long with a large sessile gland and small rudimentary 

 leaflets ; the branches of each axil diminishing downwards ; branches 

 themselves similarly disposed on a subcompressed tawny-pubescent 

 main-rachis as a terminal panicle 16-20 in. long, 6-12 in. wide. Calyx 

 campanulate, tawny-pabescent, "05 in. long, teeth short obtuse. Corolla 

 vellow, silky, "15 in. long, teeth ovate-lanceolate nearly as long as 

 tube. Filaments united at base in a thick short ring, yellowish, *2 in. 

 long, shortly exserted. Ovary with a short stipe as long as staminal 

 tube. Fod spirally twisted, 3-7 in. long, dehiscent along the lower 

 suture, 1*25 in. wide, valves firmly coriaceous, glabrous, dull, dark- 

 green, at length becoming yellow externally, orange within. Seeds 3-7, 

 oblono-, '8 in. long, '6 in. wide, '4 in. thick, testa thin, crustaceous, dark- 

 purple, smooth, shining j without arillus. Inga elliptica Bl. Cat. Gew. 

 Buitenz. 88; Ind. Kew. I, 1216. Inga Jiringa Wall. Cat. 5268 not 

 of Jack. Inga Clypearia Wall. Cat. 5270 B. not of Jack. Pithecolobiuvi 

 fascicalatum Beuth. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. Ill, 208 ? ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind, Bat. I, 33 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 304. Alhizzia fasciculafa 

 Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLY, 2. 129, excl, syn. Pithecolobium 

 macrophyllum Teysm. & Binnend. 



NicoBARS ; Kamorta, Kurz! Kedah ; Pulo Songsong, Curtis 2604i\ 

 Pahang; Pulo Chugu, Ridley 2637! Malacca; Griffith! Goodenoiigh 

 1894! Maingay b7l\ 578! Perak ; IFm?/ 542 ! 2666!* 4171! Scortechim 

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