Piate 2721. 
SYMPETALANDRA BORNEE NSIS, Stapf. 
LrEguMiInos&. Tribe DIMORPHANDRE#, 
Sympetalandra, Stapf (gen. nov. .). Calyx campanulatus, Jatus, 
breviter 5-lo bus, obis in alabastro primo imbricatis. Petala 5, eequalia, 
rmi. Legumen ignotum -—Arbor parra, glabra. Folia paripinnata, 
2-juga, foliolis coriaceis pellucido punctatis oppositis. FI pareve 
Aeconed pedicellati, racemosi, racemis densis axillaribus et extra- 
aribus versus apices ramorum et terminalibus in paniculam 
sallacase, Bracteze minute ; bracteole nulle. 
S. borneensis, Si tapf (species unica). Ramuli cortice brunnei vel 
clioloaicion Folia bijuga ; foliola oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata 
utringue subacuta vel subacuminata, fe BA in. eens 1-2 in. lata, coriacea 
shad 
2-33 in. longus, basi modice tumidus, eee in subulam productus ; 
petiolali crassiusculi, 4-6 lin. longi. Racemi pedunculati, 2-5 poll. 
ong, ad 7-2 poll. nudi, — — incrassata, stricta; bractez 
vate, persistentes, vix } lin. ; pedicelli ad # lin. longi, plerumque 
wevinred Calyx a n. longus, “obi a vel subacutis, pellucido- 
vel subacuta, con neava, pelluc ido- cata Filan men a rosea, episepala 
1}-1f lin. longa, epipetala 1]-12 lin - longa ; anthere vix 3 lin. lon 
Ovarium stipite diseum cupularem vix excedente glabro oblongum, 
superne rufo-villosum 
Borneo : Sarawak, near Kuching, by the river, Haviland, 1628. 
The distinctly imbricate zstivation of the lobes of the gamosepalous 
calyx and the bars — nguish this genus from the Mimosee as defined 
at present, and t to the affinity with the small tribe of Dimor 
phandree in Cambie. It can, however, not be said to be closely 
