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differed from all allied species then known in its multifoliolate 
he old 
new genus than to add a fresh type to that already perplexing 
collection. 
The object of this paper is to associate with Fordia several 
species of small trees inhabiting the Malayan islands which show a 
very complete agreement with the Chinese species in the structure 
of their inflorescence, flowers and fruit. The leaf characters of the 
genus, as thus extended, form a gradual transition towards those 
of Millettia sericea and allied species, while the occasional axillary 
position of the racemes in one of the species makes it a connecting 
link with the group of that genus to which M. piscidia belongs ; 
and Indo-China, it will be one more genus which, like Illigera, 
entirely surrounds this almost isolated basin. | 
CLAVIS SPECIERUM. 
Foliola stipellata os eee os -» Ll. F. cauliflora. 
Stipellae nullae 
Foliola coriacea ... bes ots .. 2, F, cortacea; 
Foliola papyracea 
Flores subsessiles 
oliola glabra, terminale 15 cm. 
ongum see Sis -. «=. 3. F.. stepularis. 
Foliola subtus subsericea, ter- 
minale 25 cm. longum -. 4, F. Gibbsiae. 
Flores graciliter pedicellati ... vee O. FF. filipes. 
1. F. cauliflora, Hemsi, Enum. Pl. China, i. (1886) 160, t. 4. 
Cuina. Kwangtung: West River, Ford. 
The trees in the Botanic Garden at Hong Kong are now some 
12 feet high and have spread by throwing up shoots from the 
ground over a considerable area ruund their original position ; they 
bear every year upon their bare stems, now some inches thick, an 
abundance of pink-flowered racemes. 
- F. coriacea, Dunn, sp. n. Arbor parva ; ramulis glabris griseis 
lenticellatis. Folia 5-8-juga, 40-60 cm. longa, rachide glabra 
exstipulata ; foliola anguste lanceolata, apice gradatim acuminata, 
si acuta, 12-15 cm. longa, rigide coriacea, supra glabra, subtus 
pilis adpressis sericeis nitentia tarde glabra, costa utrinque 
